Lead - Strategy & Transformation - FMCG

Description:

Job Purpose:

- Taking charge of planning and overseeing projects, from ideation through to completion

- Serving as liaison officer between senior management, regional project team and (local) project executers

- Ensuring mitigation of potential risks that could endanger a projects successful completion

Key Responsibilities:

- Acts as a project management platform/methodology champion and first point of contact for (local) project teams

- Facilitates and drives project management processes (e.g. risks and escalated issues calls, change requests, etc.)

- Continuously reports project status and actively adds/updates issues, risks and tasks based on project progress/status

- Contributes to development of project business case, charters and milestone plan incl. appropriate sign-offs

- Supports in preparation for decision (body) meetings (e.g. steering committee)

- Performs project health assessments and raises concerns to project manager and/or escalates to sponsor as required

- Improves delivery by sharing lessons learned from similar projects within the project ecosystem

- Facilitates end-of-project reviews

Required Skills & Experience:

- Minimum 5 years of business decision support experience

- Strong communication skills in English

- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

- Familiarity with project methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.) and project management tools (MS Project) preferable

- Ability to lead wokrstreams and roll-out initiatives independently

- Energetic, passionate and results oriented

- Strong team player with positive working attitude