Hybrid Senior Director of Delivery – GP&SC

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About the role

  • 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.
  • Ensure change management follows standardised approach.
  • 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

Benefits

  • Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
  • Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
  • Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
  • Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

Job title

Senior Director of Delivery – GP&SC

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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