You will work closely with leadership, product development teams, and enterprise governance bodies to ensure strategic synchronisation across programmes, while enabling customer-focused, design-led outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain a project governance framework ensuring consistency, transparency, and alignment with organisational priorities.
- Synchronise divisional initiatives with enterprise-wide programmes, maintaining focus on outcomes and strategic direction.
- Translate leadership vision into actionable governance practices, emphasising innovation, customer-centricity, and design excellence.
- Promote adoption of modern methodologies (Lean Six Sigma, Agile, PMBOK, Process Excellence) to improve project execution and quality.
- Act as the governance liaison with enterprise-level committees, ensuring seamless integration of reporting, planning, and performance tracking.
- Oversee the divisional project portfolio, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, sequenced, and resourced effectively.
- Define and monitor KPIs and OKRs to measure project impact, alignment, and return on investment.
- Maintain dashboards and reporting tools to provide real-time visibility on project health, risks, and progress.
- Conduct post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and feed improvements into future cycles.
- Use analytics to guide prioritisation, feasibility assessments, and project approach.
- Monitor KPIs, budget variances, milestones, and risks with real-time reporting.
- Quantify project value using ROI, NPV, cost-benefit analysis, CSAT, and NPS.
- Apply forecasting and scenario planning to anticipate risks and resource constraints.
- Leverage benchmarking, feedback, and historical data to refine strategies.
- Partner with senior stakeholders across functions to ensure shared ownership and accountability for outcomes.
- Apply structured change management approaches to assess impacts, manage expectations, and ensure successful adoption.
- Lead the design and implementation of change strategies, supporting smooth transitions and minimising disruption.
- Foster a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous improvement.
Candidate Profile
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with at least 8 years’ relevant experience.
- Strong knowledge of product development design methodologies, brand execution, and consumer-facing product lifecycles.
- Familiarity with design processes, technologies, and design theory.
- Previous experience managing product development phases is an advantage.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.