Head of Transformation

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.