Manager- Strategy

Job Title-

Manager- Strategy

About us-

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks

company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to

build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test

new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function-

Our Marketing team are creators, helping to build and nurture some of the world’s most loved brands. We craft amazing connections with people around the world to celebrate our brands’ legacies and reimagine them for the world today, and into the future. Everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of our consumers, behaviours, trends, and technologies. Using our genius and creativity, we unlock our brands’ uniqueness, understand their purpose, and put them at the heart of celebrations everywhere. Together, we’re celebrating diversity and challenging stereotypes through our advertising and marketing. Wherever your talents lie, from Design to Consumer Planning, you’ll be celebrated and supported in our inclusive culture.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE: This role is responsible for supporting the strategy lead in identifying project teams, preparing detailed plans for each functional objectives along with the functional owners, program managing projects and ensuring status reporting to all stakeholders concerned. For cross functional projects where projects are owned by Strategy team, the role requires ownership of outcomes for the project(s)

Qualification: Tier 1 MBA/CA

Experience: 2-4 years of Project Management (design and delivery) (non IT experience)

Knowledge & skills:

• Expertise in project management and delivering transformational projects

• Has a strong working knowledge of management strategies, financial accounting, planning

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

• Experience in leading a multi-disciplined team in an extremely fast-moving environment, with the ability to lead, thrive, provide guidance and cut-through in the face of great ambiguity

• Ability to guide and influence project members on issue resolution, with an aim to delivering project outcomes on time and in full

• Capability in managing risks and opportunities of project(s) towards successful delivery

• Has owned delivery outcomes of large cross functional projects

• Knowledge of alcobev industry in India is preferred, but not essential

Best suited for someone who:

• Have strong decision-making skills and the determination to see projects through to the end.

• Self-directed and able to work independently

• Ability to multitask with research projects, data analysis, coordination with the executive team

• Willingness to stretch and deliver outcomes

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

1. Business Process Management (BPM):

• Support the strategy lead 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 Steering Commitee / Functional Directors 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 update of risk and opportunities) on a timely basis.

2. Project Management:

• Lead complex, high value projects with minimal guidance & ensure the relevant program structures exist to enable all of the programs of work to operate within the functional vertical

• 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.

• Ensure that cross program or cross functional risks, issues and dependencies are managed.

• 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

• Responsible for implementation of required project management tools such as plans, risks/issue logs, resource heat maps, etc.

3. Change Management:

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

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

• Responsible for coaching PMs and project leads to be able to undertake the relevant change interventions, including the deployment of change management tools

PERFORMANCE MEASURES

• Deviation from the planned milestones for strategic initiatives.

• Impact on business: NSV-Profit growth/Savings/Risk mitigation through strategic initiatives.

• Deviation from project milestones & timelines

• Impact of project implementation deviation on business outcomes

• Successful delivery of outcomes of cross functional projects owned by Strategy team

Flexible Working Statement-

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement-

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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