Senior Manager Project Office

This role sits within the General Management & Business Development team and works across the organisation to develop, support and manage key initiatives that deliver GCA's top priorities. It drives, guides and consults initiative owners on planning, execution and tracking, and provides deep-dive support on selected initiatives through value-added analysis and business insights. The position communicates initiative progress, risks and recommended future actions to GCA management and highlights how initiatives support the overall GCA Strategy Roadmap during the regular steering cadence.

• Coordinate and manage initiative development, planning and prioritisation processes across functions
• Engage with senior management to identify initiative owners and core team members, and to determine the role and contribution for each initiative
• Drive, guide and consult initiative owners to set initiative objectives, develop detailed plans and define KPIs aligned with the strategic direction of the organisation
• Manage and guide the overall project life-cycle from start to finish, recommending and aligning on additional support where required
• Provide active process management and value-added analysis, including new or custom process development, ad-hoc data analysis and insight, and heavy cross-functional alignment
• Act as liaison and communication bridge across the organisation to build alignment on initiative direction and priorities and to manage cross-initiative interdependencies
• Prepare and present high-quality, constructive project updates and regular reports to senior management on overall initiative progress
• Proactively share best practices and escalate potential issues, risks and new opportunities identified
• Coordinate with Human Resources on initiative KPI and performance evaluation
• Drive and guide initiative owners to further develop project management skills and discipline

• University degree or above
• MBA or other business-related qualification
• 6-8 years of general business experience
• Experience with a leading consumer brand
• Strong process and project management skills, with an organised approach and the flexibility to meet changing needs
• Solid business sense and analytic/critical-thinking skills, able to solve problems using both conventional judgment and ad-hoc analysis
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving ability
• Team leadership skills, able to lead and influence project teams across different functions towards a common objective
• Strong multi-tasking ability to handle multiple projects across various topics at the same time
• Willingness to learn and adapt in order to build business acumen and develop general management competency
• Initiative and entrepreneurial mindset, proactively seeking opportunities for improvement
• People-oriented, with the ability to work with, service and navigate across a wide network throughout the organisation
• Confident communicator and presenter, especially to senior management
• Solid skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project
• Basic statistics and modelling knowledge

• Experience in a leading management consulting firm

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