Head - Transformation Office - Chemicals/FMCD/Manufacturing Firm

Head of Transformation Office

1. JOB DETAILS:

Position Title: Head of Transformation Office

Reports to: Executive Director

Division: Transformation Office

2. AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

Key Roles & Responsibilities, Performance Tracking & Reporting:

- Understand the expectations of senior leadership teams in terms of key metrics and business processes to review, their frequency and cadence

- Work with functional teams to design the right set of performance dashboards for reporting of business performance metrics

- For the identified metrics and dashboards, ensure the that transformation team builds the relevant data architecture and governance processes at functional level that allows for continuous and automatic updates

- Socialize dashboards and key insights with senior leadership teams, brief them before key reviews and prioritize business meetings for them based on dashboard indicators

- Ensure the transformation team creates executive visualizations of dashboards for senior leadership and work with IT / MIS to ensure deployment on laptop/ mobile devices

Governance & Review Cadence:

- Define and follow a structured review cadence (weekly) with functional teams to discuss performance gaps and identify actions to drive improvement

- Ensure regular update meetings with senior leadership to update on business performance across key metrics

- Drive follow through of actions identified during reviews, flag escalation / deviations to senior management

- Team Structure ; Report directly to the executive directors & coordinates and work closely with business functions leads within the organization

- Manage and supervise a team of lead business analysts & develop a high-caliber team through effective recruitment, training, coaching and mentoring

3. QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Minimum Experience: 8-10 years of relevant work experience

- Leadership position in transformation office / Chairman's office roles in other large companies / conglomerates

- Sr. Manager/AVP from strategy teams of large companies (e.g. TSMG, Mahindra Strategy, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications:

- MBA from IIMs/XLRI/FMS; Engineering from a top-tier university / CA with good quality experience

4. KEY CAPABILITIES:

- Ability to analyze and synthesize complex data using one or more of modern BI & visualization tools

- Able to translate analysis into insights, initiatives and business implications

- Distill complex results or processes into simple, clear visualizations/dashboards

- Strong project/team management skills including running tight governance cadence with business teams

- Managing teams /working directly with senior stakeholders

- Experience in both operations (factory / manufacturing) and to GTM (sales, marketing) during past stints

6. EXPERIENCE:

Experience in functions like Chairman's Office, Transformation Office, Centre of Excellence (at times, similar profiles are also within "Strategy functions")

- Target co's

- Large co's with stable Chairman's Office teams: (both at group level and within individual co's in the group)

- Building materials co's /Other similar sized co's with central teams

Looking for a candidate who:

- Is a self starter and can drive reviews, governance and follow-up on action independently

- Has some past exposure in both sales + manufacturing / ops

5. KEY COMPETENCIES:

- Problem Solving (Analytical Thinking/ Creativity/ Problem Analysis/ Problem Resolution/ Decision Making)

- Achievement Orientation (Ownership/ Initiative/ Results Orientation/ Exceeding expectations)

- Effective communication (Communication skills/ Convincing ability/ Persuasive/ Influencing/ Negotiating skills)

- Execution Excellence (Planning & Organizing/ Time Management/ Process Orientation ; Process Adherence/ Operational Excellence)

- People Centered (Interpersonal effectiveness ; Interpersonal Relationship/ Developing self and others - capability building)

- Team Work (Team Relationship/ Team work & Cooperation/ Team Development)