Role Purpose
The Transformation Manager / Senior Project Manager plays a central role in this transition by:
- Converting strategy into prioritised, executable initiatives
- Driving cross-functional delivery across a complex, multi-revenue business
- Strengthening governance, execution discipline, and performance cadence
- Acting as a key leverage point for the CEO and Executive Team by ensuring clarity, follow-through, and momentum
- This role sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and leadership, with a mandate to ensure that important initiatives move forward decisively and consistently.
Key Responsibilities
Business Transformation & Strategic Execution:
- Drive the delivery of Bature Brewery’s business transformation agenda, aligned to profitability, operational efficiency, governance maturity, and scalability
- Translate strategic priorities into structured programmes and projects with clear milestones, owners, and timelines
- Maintain an integrated view of transformation initiatives and ensure alignment across departments
- Identify execution risks early and work with senior leaders to resolve them
- Identify Business Sustainability elements and drive processes to eliminate risks and build into operational engagements.
Programme & Project Management (PMO Function):
- Act as the central point of coordination for strategic and cross-functional projects
- Own business initiatives (as the champion ) and prioritize execution based on strategic value, financial impact, and organisational capacity
- Ensure all Transformation projects have clear scope, success metrics, and reporting cadence
- Track progress rigorously and escalate issues where delivery is at risk
- Enforce discipline around project selection, sequencing, and closure.
Executive Coordination & Governance Cadence:
- Structure and coordinate executive meetings, monthly performance reviews, and key decision forums
- Prepare agendas, briefing materials, and decision papers
- Capture decisions, actions, and accountabilities, and ensure consistent follow-through
- Maintain visibility over executive priorities, risks, and interdependencies
- Draft internal summaries, updates, and briefing notes as required.
Performance Management & Reporting Discipline:
- Jointly own with the CFO the implementation and ongoing use of scorecards, KPIs, and performance dashboards
- Ensure timely, high-quality performance inputs from department heads
- Consolidate updates into clear, decision-focused executive summaries
- Work closely with the CFO and COO to reinforce a fact-based, accountability-driven performance culture.
Cross-Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Management:
- Act as an integrator across Operations, Production, Sales, Finance, F&B, and External Relations
- Ensure alignment where priorities compete, or dependencies exist
- Support senior leaders by structuring communications and tracking commitments
- Enable collaboration without diluting functional accountability.
What Success Looks Like (12–18 Months)
- Strategic initiatives are delivered on time and with clear ownership
- Executive meetings are decision-oriented with strong follow-through
- Leadership operates with clearer priorities and reduced friction
- Governance, reporting, and execution feel structured and predictable
- The business demonstrates improved operational discipline and scalability
- Business Sustainability index is within +/- 5%.
Experience & Background
Required:
- 5 to 7 years’ experience in:
- Project, programme, or portfolio management Business transformation or strategy execution roles
- Experience working closely with Executives and senior leadership teams
- Proven track record delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong exposure into strategy development and Risk management
- Strongly Preferred:
- Experience in FMCG, hospitality, manufacturing, or multi-site operations
- Exposure to high-growth or scale-up environments
- Experience supporting governance or organisational transitions
- Strong commercial and financial literacy.
Tools & Systems (Preferred Experience):
Candidates should be comfortable operating in a modern, digital-first environment, with experience using or rapidly adopting the following tools:
Collaboration & Communication:
- Slack
- Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
- Project & Work Management
- Project Management platforms equivalent to Asana, Click-up e.t.c
- Ability to design and enforce workflows, timelines, and accountability structures.
Data, Reporting & BI:
- Business Intelligence tools (e.g. Google Looker Studio, Power BI, Tableau)
- Strong Excel / spreadsheet capability for tracking, analysis, and reporting.
AI & Productivity Tools:
- Practical use of AI tools to improve productivity, documentation, analysis, and decision support
- Comfort experimenting with and embedding AI-enabled workflows.
Skills & Competencies:
- Strong execution discipline and prioritisation capability
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations
- High emotional intelligence and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable engaging and constructively challenging senior leaders
- Detail-oriented with a strategic perspective.
Personal Attributes:
- Calm, organised, and outcome-focused
- Proactive, accountable, and reliable
- Trusted and discreet
- Comfortable operating behind the scenes to drive visible results
- Comfortable being hands on within all levels of the organization.
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