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Senior Manager Project Office

:Market GCA

: Transformation Office

Direct Reporting Line:Director Project Office

Indirect/Secondary Reporting Line:

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Number of Personnel Managed: -

Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility:

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Develop, support and manage key initiatives across the organization to achieve GCA’s top priorities

He/she will achieve this mission by:

• Driving, guiding and consulting initiative owners in planning, execution and tracking of projects
• Providing deep-dive support on select initiatives with value-added analysis and business insights to drive initiative progress towards strategic goals
• Communicating with GCA management regarding initiative progress, risks, and recommended future actions
• Highlighting and communicating during regular Steering cadence how initiatives support and drive the overall GCA Strategy Roadmap

• Coordinate and manage initiative development, planning and prioritization processes across functions
• Engage with senior management to identify initiative owners and core team members
• Drive, guide and consult initiative owners to set initiative objectives, develop detailed plans and define KPIs
• Ensure project objectives are aligned with strategic direction of the organization

• Engage with initiative owners and senior management to determine role and contribution for each initiative
• Manage and guide the overall project life-cycle from start to finish
• Proactively recommend and align on additional support to be provided
• Work with initiative owners to build high quality and constructive project updates for management review
• Act as liaison and communication bridge across the organization to build alignment on initiative direction and priorities, and to manage cross-initiative interdependences
• Proactively share best practices and escalate any potential issues, risks and new opportunities identified

• Provide active process management and value-added analysis – typically focused on initiatives that require:

• New or custom process development
• Ad-hoc data analysis and insight
• Heavy cross-functional alignment and management

• Prepare regular updates to senior management on overall initiative progress
• Coordinate with Human Resources on initiative KPI and performance evaluation

• Provide senior management with objective perspective on progress, priorities and directions while managing their expectations
• Provide advice and feedback to initiative owners and core members to ensure high quality, timely execution
• Act as communication bridge across the organization to build alignment on initiative direction and priorities, and proactively escalate any potential issues, risks and new opportunities identified

• Drive and guide initiative owners to further develop project management skills and discipline

KPIs:

• Initiative achievement, contribution to initiative teams, and overall business impact
• Overall project leadership, communications, goal-oriented, problem solving, strategic influence.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

1. Strong process and project management skills – organized approach but also able to be flexible to meet changing needs;

• Solid business sense and analytic/critical-thinking skills – able to solve problems using both conventional judgment and ad-hoc analysis;
• Strategic thinking and problem solving
• Team leadership – able to lead and influence project teams across different functions towards a common objective;
• Strong multi-tasking ability to handle multiple projects across various topics at the same time;

1. Willingness to learn and adapt –to build business acumen and develop general management competency;
2. Initiative & entrepreneurial – take initiative and proactively seek opportunity for improvement;
3. People oriented – ability to work with, service, and navigate across a wide network throughout the organization;
4. Confident communicator and presenter, especially to senior management

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or above
• MBA or other business-related qualification
• 6-8 years of general business experience
• Experience with leading consumer brand
• Experience in leading management consulting firm is a plus
• Solid skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.
• Basic statistics and modelling knowledge
• Strong communication skills – written and spoken English and Mandarin

Develop and execute a systematic approach to support senior management to identify the right strategic priorities to take action onCoordinate and manage initiative development, planning and prioritization processes across functionsDrive and guide initiative owners to set initiative objectives, develop detailed plans and define KPIsDrive and guide initiative owners to further develop project management skills and disciplineThe responsibilities are not limited to the above; the job holder will also follow other work assigned by his/her immediate supervisor.8-12 years of general business experienceExperience with leading consumer brandExtensive experience in and strong skills of process and project managementExperience in working closely with middle and senior managers across functionsExperience in leading management consulting firm is a plusUniversity degree or aboveMBA or other business- related qualification High proficiency or expertise with database, statistical and business intelligence systems (e.g., SAS, SPSS, R, SAP)Solid skills in Word, Excel, Power Point etc.Basic statistics and modelling knowledge Strong communication skills – written and spoken English and Mandarin