Role summary
Own and deliver the company’s multi-year transformation across growth, efficiency, cash, quality/compliance, customer, and digital. Drive the roadmap, run the change portfolio, and realise tangible value (revenue, margin, CCC, Opex efficiency) while strengthening processes and data foundations. Travelling frequency: 20%-30% within SEA region.
Key responsibilities
1) Strategy & Portfolio
- Translate 5-/3-/1-year goals into a prioritised transformation roadmap with business cases, targets, and gated decision points.
- Run the Transformation Portfolio/PMO: intake, prioritisation, resource planning, RAID (risks/assumptions/issues/dependencies), status, and exec reporting.
2) Programme Delivery & Value Realisation
- Lead multi-country initiatives (e.g., market entries, channel model upgrades, pricing architecture, S&OP, inventory optimisation, e-commerce/CRM).
- Build and track benefits (revenue, GP%, EBIT, CCC, Opex) with Finance; ensure value is realised and booked (not just “planned”).
3) Process Excellence (Commercial & Operations)
- Map and redesign core processes (Lead→Quote→Order→Cash; S&OP; Procure→Pay; Service/Repairs) with clear SOPs, SLAs, and controls.
- Embed standard cadences (QBRs, S&OP, pipeline reviews) and handoffs across countries and BUs.
4) Digital & Data
- Partner with IT/DT to operationalise CRM/HRMS/ERP analytics; define adoption KPIs and drive behaviour change.
- Establish a single-source-of-truth KPI pack (executive dashboard) and data governance (owners, definitions, QA).
5) People & Change
- Create change plans (stakeholders, communications, training, incentives).
- Coach workstream leads; uplift internal capability so changes stick (playbooks, templates, checklists).
6) Quality, Compliance & Risk (med-device context)
- Coordinate with RA/QA on QMS/eQMS improvements, CAPA, audit readiness, and field vigilance linkages to commercial processes.
- Ensure transformation work respects ISO 13485/SS 620 and country regulations (HSA/MDA/TFDA etc.).
7) Governance
- Run monthly SteerCo: decisions, escalations, and trade-offs; maintain a transparent portfolio view (RAG, risks, mitigations, spend vs. benefits).
Must-have qualifications
- Experience: 8–12+ years leading cross-functional transformations (portfolio/program level), with multi-country exposure and a track record of measurable P&L and cash impact (EBIT, GP%, CCC, DSO/DOH).
- Industry fit: Background in medical devices/healthcare or other regulated, B2B field-service businesses; comfortable with ISO 13485 / QMS, vigilance/CAPA, tendering, and hospital workflows.
- Operating toolkit: Hands‑on with process redesign (Lead→Quote→Order→Cash, S&OP, service/repairs), change management, and benefits realisation (can baseline, target, and book savings/uplift).
- Digital & data fluency: Implemented or scaled CRM/ERP/HRMS and BI dashboards; able to define data models/KPIs, drive adoption, and interrogate funnels/forecasts without an analyst.
- Programme leadership: Built/ran a PMO (intake, prioritisation, RAID, gated governance) and managed vendors/SIs; strong stakeholder management from frontline to ELT/Board.
- Financial acumen: Can model business cases (NPV/IRR/Payback), price waterfalls, inventory turns, and margin drivers; partners tightly with Finance.
- Communication: Executive-level storytelling, crisp written docs, and the ability to move behaviour (training, comms, incentives).
- Education: Bachelor’s in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or similar.
Strongly preferred
- Certifications: PMP/Prince2 and Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt) or equivalent transformation credentials; formal change management (Prosci/ACMP).
- Quality/Reg literacy: Practical exposure to ISO 13485, eQMS rollouts, CAPA, audit readiness; understands how commercial processes interact with QMS.
- Commercial excellence: Experience setting pricing guardrails, channel/rebate programmes, and KAM frameworks; improved CRM hygiene/adoption at scale.
- Supply chain/S&OP: Raised forecast accuracy, reduced obsolescence, and improved inventory turns across multiple countries/SKUs.