Transformation Office: Associate Director

Works closely with senior leadership on priority strategic projects. Drive end-to-end impact: from identifying areas of opportunity and developing needle-moving strategic initiatives to driving large-scale transformation, ensuring that ideas translate into real business results.

Responsibilities

• Lead 1-3 high-impact workstreams, with key responsibilities in:
  • Scoping: Partner with business stakeholders to identify key sources of value and define where the Transformation Office can best support
  • Supporting: Step in where help is needed most - from strategy development and initiative design to problem-solving bottlenecks and managing escalations, ensuring effective deployment of resources
  • Challenging: Provide fact-based challenge to raise ambition, pushing teams to consider what more can we do? and how can we move faster?
  • Tracking/reporting: Ensure execution stays on plan; conduct root cause analysis and develop mitigation plans where performance indicators are lagging, and develop concise action-oriented report for Senior Executives/Board
• Lead and present findings and updates in senior management and Board-level meetings
• Coach and develop team members; setting them up for success
• Identify additional pockets of value for the Transformation Office to capture e.g. initiatives within or adjacent to existing workstreams
• Stay connected to other ongoing projects across the company, identifying overlaps, linkages, and implications for your workstream, and steer or course-correct as needed.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of professional experience
  • At top strategy consulting firms (Manager Sr. Manager / Project Lead / Engagement Manager roles)
  • And/or FMCG Industry in Trade Marketing with extensive experience dealing with multiple retailers across Thailand
  • And/or Retail Industry in strategy or business development roles
• Ability to see the bigger picture and propose ideas to drive business results
• Ability to prioritize long list of projects / activities and workplan for self / junior team members accordingly
• Ability to distinguish transformative initiatives with day-to-day execution & business-as-usual improvement
• Strong sense of ownership, proactively drives workstreams towards outcomes and results
• Prior experience in retail, consumer goods, e-commerce or related fields preferred
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to structure complex and ambiguous challenges
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with proven experience influencing and presenting to senior management
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments and pivoting across multiple priorities