Senior Manager - Transformation & Strategy (Makro & Lotus's)

About the Role

The Transformation Office (TO) team at CP Axtra works closely with senior leadership on priority strategic projects. We drive end-to-end impact: from identifying areas of opportunity and developing needle-moving strategic initiatives to driving large-scale transformation, ensuring that ideas translate into real business results.

Responsibilities

• Drive insights generation and strategic recommendations for 1-2 high-impact workstreams, partnering with stakeholders to identify key sources of value and define where the Transformation Office can best support.
• Support workstreams across strategy development, initiative design, problem-solving bottlenecks and managing escalations to ensure effective deployment of resources.
• Provide fact-based challenge to raise ambition, pushing teams to consider additional opportunities and speed up delivery.
• Track and report execution: conduct root cause analysis, develop mitigation plans for lagging performance indicators, and produce concise action-oriented reports for Senior Executives and the Board.
• Lead and present findings and updates in senior management and Board-level meetings.
• Coach and develop team members, setting them up for success.
• Identify additional pockets of value within or adjacent to existing workstreams for the Transformation Office to capture.
• Stay connected to other ongoing projects across the company to identify overlaps, linkages, and implications, and steer or course-correct as needed.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of professional experience.
• Experience at top strategy consulting firms (Consultant level) and/or FMCG industry in Trade Marketing with extensive experience dealing with multiple retailers across Thailand, and/or retail industry in strategy or business development roles.
• Ability to see the bigger picture and propose ideas to drive business results.
• Ability to prioritize a long list of projects/activities and build workplans for self and junior team members.
• Ability to distinguish transformative initiatives from day-to-day execution and business-as-usual improvement.
• Strong sense of ownership; proactively drives workstreams towards outcomes and results.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to structure complex and ambiguous challenges.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with proven experience influencing and presenting to senior management.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments and pivoting across multiple priorities.