Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

 

Develop, support and manage key initiatives across the organization to achieve GCA’s top priorities

 

He/she will achieve this mission by:

Driving and guiding initiative owners in planning, execution and tracking of projects Providing deep-dive support on select initiatives with value-added analysis Communicating with GCA management regarding initiative progress, risks, and recommended future actions

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

Project Portfolio Management and Evaluation Manage modules and initiatives tracking and monthly update process Develop and manage PMO tools (e.g. tracking, templates, summary dashboards, file archives) for efficient and organized execution

 

Project Planning, Execution and Tracking Coordinate and manage initiative development, planning and prioritization processes across functions Engage with senior management to identify initiative owners and core team members Drive and guide initiative owners to set initiative objectives, develop detailed plans and define KPIs Coordinate and drive initiative owners to generate regular progress updates Proactively recommend and align on additional support to be provided Provide active process management and value-added analysis – typically focused on initiatives that require: New or custom process development Ad-hoc data analysis and insight Heavy cross-functional alignment and management

 

Project Communication and Milestones

Work with PMO team to prepare regular updates to senior management on overall progress of modules and initiatives Provide senior management with objective perspective on progress, priorities and directions while managing their expectations Work with initiative owners to build high quality and constructive project updates for management review Act as liaison and communication bridge across the organization to build alignment on initiative direction and priorities, and to manage cross-initiative interdependences Proactively share best practices and escalate any potential issues, risks and new opportunities identified Coordinate meeting preparations for regular PMO workshops and milestones   Training Drive and guide initiative owners to further develop project management skills and discipline

 

KPIs:

Initiative achievement, contribution to initiative teams, and overall business impact Overall project leadership, communications, goal-oriented, problem solving, strategic influence.

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

 

Communicate with others Strong process and project management skills – organized approach but also able to be flexible to meet changing needs Solid business sense and analytic/critical-thinking skills – able to solve problems using both conventional judgment and ad-hoc analysis Willingness to learn and adapt –to build business acumen and develop general management competency Initiative & entrepreneurial – take initiative and proactively seek opportunity for improvement

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

 

University degree or above   Minimum 3-5 years of general business experience Experience with leading consumer brand Experience in and strong skills of process and project management Experience in working closely with middle and senior managers across functions Experience in leading management consulting firm is a plus Solid skills in Word, Excel, Power Point etc. Basic statistics and modeling knowledge    Strong communication skills – written and spoken English and Mandarin

 

 

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