Senior Manager, Strategic Transformation Office

Prudential Services Asia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Services Asia is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Transformation to govern the enterprise transformation agenda and coordinate across pillars. The role ensures alignment with priorities, disciplined execution, and clear progress reporting to senior management.

Responsibilities include governance establishment, dependency management, and oversight of risks and interdependencies, enabling informed decision-making and a scalable transformation program across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor7s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience in strategic transformation, enterprise PMO, strategy execution, or governance roles within complex organisations.
• Proven ability to operate at enterprise level and engage senior stakeholders across multiple functions and business units.
• Solid understanding of transformation governance, portfolio management, dependency management, and benefit oversight.
• Experience preparing executive-level materials and reporting for senior management forums.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Corporate Strategy & Transformation Office in governing and coordinating the enterprise strategic transformation agenda in line with agreed enterprise priorities.
• Establish and operate enterprise-level transformation governance, including prioritisation principles, dependency management, and escalation mechanisms across strategic initiatives.
• Oversee and consolidate enterprise transformation progress, key risks, interdependencies, and outcomes across business and functional pillars.
• Review and assess strategic transformation proposals and business cases to ensure clarity of scope, alignment with enterprise priorities, and robustness of value rationale.
• Coordinate inputs from initiative owners and stakeholders to support informed decision-making at senior management and other governance forums.
• Provide clear, concise, and decision-oriented transformation reporting to senior management, steering committees, and governance forums.
• Promote consistent transformation discipline, standards, and accountability across the organisation without duplicating or displacing delivery ownership.
• Oversee the establishment and ongoing effectiveness of enterprise transformation and PMO governance practices across strategic initiatives.
• Support transition planning as the strategic transformation agenda evolves, including potential scale-down or integration into steady-state operating models over time.

Skills

Strategic governance

Stakeholder management

Enterprise PMO

Executive reporting

Portfolio management

Education

Bachelore20s degree in Business/Finance/Economics/PM

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed. The Senior Manager, Strategic Transformation governs and coordinates the organization’s strategic transformation agenda at an enterprise level. The role provides oversight across strategic initiatives owned by business and functional pillars, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, disciplined execution, and transparent reporting of progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes, supported by effective transformation governance, prioritization, and integration mechanisms to enable timely senior management decision‑making.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Corporate Strategy & Transformation Office in governing and coordinating the enterprise strategic transformation agenda in line with agreed enterprise priorities.
• Establish and operate enterprise‑level transformation governance, including prioritisation principles, dependency management, and escalation mechanisms across strategic initiatives.
• Oversee and consolidate enterprise transformation progress, key risks, interdependencies, and outcomes across business and functional pillars.
• Review and assess strategic transformation proposals and business cases to ensure clarity of scope, alignment with enterprise priorities, and robustness of value rationale.
• Coordinate inputs from initiative owners and stakeholders to support informed decision‑making at senior management and other governance forums.
• Provide clear, concise, and decision‑oriented transformation reporting to senior management, steering committees, and governance forums.
• Promote consistent transformation discipline, standards, and accountability across the organisation without duplicating or displacing delivery ownership.
• Oversee the establishment and ongoing effectiveness of enterprise transformation and PMO governance practices across strategic initiatives.
• Support transition planning as the strategic transformation agenda evolves, including potential scale‑down or integration into steady‑state operating models over time.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience in strategic transformation, enterprise PMO, strategy execution, or governance roles within complex organisations.
• Proven ability to operate at enterprise level and engage senior stakeholders across multiple functions and business units.
• Solid understanding of transformation governance, portfolio management, dependency management, and benefit oversight.
• Experience preparing executive‑level materials and reporting for senior management forums.

Key Attributes

• Strong enterprise and governance mindset with the ability to manage complexity across multiple initiatives.
• Able to maintain clear separation between governance and delivery ownership.
• Structured, analytical, and disciplined approach to transformation oversight.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior management levels.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving transformation environments.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third‑party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

We are Prudential. For every life, we are partners. For every future, we are protectors. Prudential plc provides life and health insurance and asset management to 17 million customers across 20 markets in Asia and Africa.

We are headquartered in Hong Kong and have dual primary listings on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the London Stock Exchange. We are focused on four strategic regions: Greater China, ASEAN, India and Africa. Our customers are served by around 55,000 agents and more than 200 bank partners.

Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America or with the Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom.

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