The director of business analysis will be responsible for: 1) PMO for strategic projects, 2) Europe integration leader, and 3) manage Europe highly visible artifacts for SteerCo, LC, EC, etc.
Project Management: The role will lead strategic cross functional projects for the EURASIA organization using the TMO ways of working and PMO process.
- The person in this role must have a growth mindset, capable of leading a project of any nature. Therefore, the role must be able to extract collective intelligence from team members and design strategic programs.
- The role will work with TMO project leaders, and the EURASIA leadership teams to ensure strategic projects are implemented and scorecarded.
- Prewire and consistently provide senior leaders with project updates, prior to global venues such as gate reviews, steerco, region LT meetings, or leadership council meetings.
- Follow the gate review process and present out at gate reviews.
Lead integrations for the business. Leverage COEs, business SMEs, etc. to lead a total company integration.
- Lead Integration process using the Solenis standard operating processes for IMO processes (business already has playbooks- but they need to be refreshed)
- Run integration venues such as the workshop, walk the walls, and other ‘on site’ events.
- Build integration cadence and create functional reporting venues.
- Build steering committee artifacts and a team reporting cadence.
- Leverage global COEs (pricing COE, PM COE, SFDC COE, STP COE, PTD COE, OTC COE) for integration capabilities.
- Understand deal hypothesis and build a workplan to ensure the synergies are delivered on time and on target.
- Ensure each deal has tracking and scorecarding for every element in the deal hypothesis.
Executive reviews and artifact management: The role will consolidate and vet all EURASIA TMO or IMO project artifacts and reviews. Provide executive pre-reads and share reporting prior to global venues.
The work is fast paced and highly visible. The person who takes this role will need operate at a high operational tempo, lead company governance processes, and present results to executives monthly.
Responsibilities:
- Project leadership of strategic and highly visible projects
- Ability to lead cross functional project teams.
- Create artifacts including: 1) project charters, 2) project workplans, 3) executive report-outs, 4) scorecards.
- Generate targets and transparently share variance reporting (actuals vs target)
- Generate hypotheses for potential projects, quickly test them, and scale successful initiatives.
- Evaluate and prioritize potential improvements.
- Establish governance and executive report outs.
- Comply with TMO ways of working and artifact requirements (charters, workplans, executive present outs, executive alignment, and scorecard).
- Plan and execute local or global workshops and global venues as necessary.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience in managing strategic projects.
- Experience with digital tools is preferred.
- Integration experience is preferred.
- Critical thinking skills
- Ability to breakdown complex problems into discrete small projects
- Ability to scope projects in small and achievable buckets.
- Ability to generate hypotheses and test them rapidly and transition if the hypotheses are rejected.
- Ability to prioritize on the vital few of a project and avoid ‘boiling the ocean.’
- Ability to grasp the essence of a project and tell an executive level story.
- Ability to oscillate between strategic messages to executives and tactical project team details.
- Mental agility- ability to flex and change course quickly, as situations change.
- Microsoft skills and Application skills
- Strong excel and power point skills.
- Ability to work in TEAMS, share files, and send out live links to files; maximize transparency.
- Ability to work in Smartsheet for workplans.
- Ability to work in KIP for all IT related projects.
- Ability to work in SFDC.
- Organization: Time stewardship and meeting management
- Ability to organize meetings and be a steward of project team time.
- Create meeting agendas before the meeting.
- Build prework and have team members come prepared for meetings.
- Capture action items and send out meeting notes.
- Honor other peoples’ time- honor the 1/3 and 2/3 rule: give others 2/3 of the time to complete deliverables.
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