Senior Director of Delivery responsible for leading Product & Supply Chain strategic projects. Driving organizational change through effective leadership and stakeholder collaboration across global teams.
Responsibilities
Defining the strategy for the Product & Supply Chain delivery function
Creating the strategy and pipeline for the Product & Supply Chain organic spend, and aligning this within the P&SC accelerator function and regional teams.
Work with the VPs and leaders in the other delivery functions and the VP of Transformation to ensure a balanced portfolio of organic spend across all areas, ensuring the Product & Supply Chain strategy is represented
Accountable for the end to end delivery of organic investment projects within the Product & Supply Chain area to cost/time/quality as measured by the Project delivery KPI for the Accelerator function
Ensure creation of robust business cases, working in collaboration with other functions to gain approval – such as finance, IS&T, regional teams.
Work with regional teams to ensure their input and approval is obtained before submission.
Identify and pursue opportunities within the portfolio where benefits can be accelerated effectively
Undertake regular portfolio reviews and assurance and represent the organic investment plan in the Product & Supply Chain quarterly forums.
Ensure projects follow the standardised project and programme company approach
Problem solve across the portfolio of projects, and deep dive into individual projects as required to ensure projects are driven to a successful conclusion, including managing delivery partners from within RS or external suppliers
Build consensus and alignment across the matrixed Product & Supply Chain Leadership Team to the strategic plan and associated priorities, providing counsel and advice to P&SC on shape and scope of change portfolio
Create and maintain a Product & Supply chain global change radar, and act as a champion for change within Product & Supply Chain matrix organisation, aligned to counterparts within other parts of the group business.
Work with GPOs and GDOs within P&SC to ensure clear future roadmap of delivery projects to be prioritised and resourced into the overall organic investment plan
Liaise with Group Transformation Office and business stakeholders on initiatives outside of P&SC workstreams and ensure that key resources within the Product & Supply Chain organisation are appraised of impact of change, dependencies understood, and any conflicts managed
Lead the P&SC Delivery function and develop a team of project professionals – permanent and contract resource, and accountability for ensuring the right levels of skilled resources are available to deliver the portfolio of change projects
Requirements
Substantial experience in a strategic change leadership position within a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.
Ability to operate at strategic level and deep dive into detail as required.
Demonstrating flexibility and ability to prioritise self and team
Proven track record on interacting and negotiating with Senior Management in a highly sensitive and collaborative environment to agree strategic direction and build a coalition.
Experience of building appropriate and effective networks, locally and Group-wide to ensure business units all pull in the same direction.
Excellent communication skills for the delivery of regular reports/updates for the Product & Supply Chain leadership team, which must be easily digestible, unambiguous, engaging, informative and convincing.
Demonstrate ability to perform standard analyses such as performance analyses, competitive analyses, market analyses, etc.
Evidence of success in a result driven environment
Track record of successfully delivering change in top tier organisations
A proven toolkit of strategic and transformation methodologies which can be flexibly applied to most of the situations likely to arise in setting up and leading a multi-year transformation
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