Diageo India - Lead - Commercial Initiatives

Lead- Commercial Initiatives

Location: Bangalore

Organization: DIAGEO India

Position: Lead, Commercial Initiatives

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

This role is responsible for supporting the Chief Commercial Officer in key projects for the function, preparing detailed plans for each functional objectives along with the functional owners, program managing projects and ensuring status reporting to all stakeholders concerned. This role is responsible to project manage all global commercial programs (including Commercial Capabilities & Scorecard)

Experience:

5+ years of business/analytics role. Project Management (design and delivery) role expertise would be preferred

Knowledge and Skills:

- Knowledge of the alcobev industry preferred

- Ability to navigate complex business structure

- Willing to challenge the standard thinking with new ideas, new approaches, and new solutions.

- Strong project management skills

- Superior communication, interpersonal, influencing and relationship-building skills.

Best Suited for someone who:

- Have strong determination to see projects through to the end.

- Demonstrated skills in managing multiple stakeholders and collaborating across teams.

- Self-directed and able to work independently

- Willingness to stretch and deliver outcomes

Areas of Responsibility:

Project Management-

- Work with internal commercial team to deliver on global commercial Projects for India including Commercial Capabilities & Scorecard

- Support all agenda being driven by commercial on a need basis

- Manage outcomes for all agenda as a project leader ensuring scale, scope & timelines are adhered to and deliverables are met

- Actively manage project budget, work plan, quality, and schedule.

- Coordinate and lead project meetings to ensure all stakeholders understand project specifications, timelines, and responsibilities.

- Operate a systematic program tracking process.

- Provide the escalation of issues and risks to the Functional Head to ensure that key decisions can be taken in a timely manner.

- Ensure an appropriate governance mechanism is in place for the overall program of work

Interface to commercial team

- Support the Functional Head in identifying project teams, preparation of detailed plans for each functional objectives along with the functional owner, and ensuring feasibility of the plans along with the functional owners.

- Plan, schedule and manage Functional Directors review meetings, prepare and distribute the agenda and prepare review framework, gather and ensure relevant and actionable performance review information for strategic priorities.

- Prepare the approach to review progress on milestones, plan and manage progress on milestones

- Ensure tracking of progress towards achievement of planned objectives, goals and follow-up of identified issues (including an update of risk and opportunities) on a timely basis.

Change management

- Ensure the relevant change management interventions are taken across the program

- Responsible for identification of key change elements of each program.