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Job Description Our client, a thriving company in the FMCG sector, is currently seeking to recruit a Head of Transformation, to join their team. The chosen candidate will be responsible for leading and delivering company-wide transformation, enhancing operational excellence and organisational performance. Key Responsibilities: Defining and delivering the company's transformation strategy, ensuring clear alignment with corporate objectives and operational priorities. Leading the Transformation Management Office, establishing robust governance, reporting frameworks and executive decision-making structures. Overseeing risks, issues, dependencies and benefits realisation to enable informed executive oversight and accountability. Driving the successful execution of major transformation programmes, ensuring delivery to scope, time, quality and business value expectations. Leading end-to-end process redesign and supporting the development of he Target Operating Model to enable sustainable performance improvement. Strengthening operational performance through data driven insights, KPI frameworks, and continuous improvement methodologies. Partnering with internal and external stakeholders to deliver digital initiatives, system modernisation and technology-enabled transformation. Promoting data quality, reporting integrity and decision support analytics across transformation workstreams. Leading organisational change by promoting new ways of working, fostering cultural alignment and ensuring stakeholder engagement at all levels. Ensuring communications, change strategies and capability building programmes support successful adoption. Ideal Candidate Profile: Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline OR a recognized professional accounting qualification such as ACCA. A Master's degree (e.g. MBA, MSc in Information Technology, Digital Transformation or in a similar field) is preferred. Relevant professional certifications in project and transformation delivery will be considered an asset. Experience within FMCG, manufacturing, supply chain or operational environments is strongly preferred. A minimum of 5 years' experience in Financial Management, with demonstrable responsibility for financial governance, performance management, and process and cost optimisation. Demonstrated experience in transformation leadership and/or PMO leadership, including governance design, portfolio oversight, and strategic programmes execution. Additional Requirements: Strong financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to develop robust business cases, manage large transformation budgets, and deliver sustainable efficiency and cost improvements. Expertise in process optimisation and operating model design, including end-to-end process mapping, standardisation and continuous improvement. Highly analytical and able to translate complex data into actionable insights. Strong digital and systems literacy, with experience across ERP/CRM platforms. Strategic leadership capability, aligning digital and transformation initiatives with broader organisational objectives. Misco

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