Transformation Associate Director, Sea

**Job Summary**:
Based in Singapore, Pernod Ricard Singapore is part of the Management Entity Pernod Ricard South East Asia (PR SEA), which covers PR Singapore as well as PR Malaysia, PR Philippines and PR Indonesia. Pernod Ricard Singapore distributes Pernod Ricard brands in Singapore’s Domestic market and more widely in the region via wholesalers.

Pernod Ricard has engaged in an ambitious Digital Transformation program to enable high adaptability and full focus on impact and value creation activities. Although spearheaded by Finance, and requiring the function to become faster, more flexible, and forward-looking, this global transformation program will impact significantly other functions and layers of the organization as well as the management of the S&OP and business monitoring in general. This new hands-on role has been created to ensure the focus needed by the Collaborative Business Planning and “Beyond Budget” implementation. This person will be an orchestrator of a complex process that involves large numbers of initiatives and many stakeholders. He/she will have a dual role of being functional lead and transformation agent.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**PR SEA - TRANSFORMATION AGENT**
- Support markets in the implementation of Beyond Budget governance
- Project Team building
- Steerco / CBP meeting
- CODI monthly update
- Explain Beyond Budget detailed design to affiliates CODIs
- Support the local teams in the change management (planning, materials, trainings, etc )
- Ensure the adoption and the mindset change in collaboration with the entities’ CODIs
- Animate the Digital Transformation network within PR SEA entities
- Share best practices, roadblocks and solutions identified
- Is a key contact for the affiliates to escalate needs, constraints, and difficulties they are facing
- Follow up the transformation journey and progress in the different affiliates: deadline respects, planning properly set up and followed, etc
- Is the key contact point for PR SEA Managing Director (MD) and CFO and PR ASIA on all PR SEA global transformation matters

**PR SINGAPORE - LOCAL TRANSFORMATION AGENT**
- Organize the Beyond Budget governance
- Project Team building
- Steerco implementation
- CODI monthly update
- Explain Beyond Budget detailed design to the teams to ensure adoption
- Facilitate each function to work with a rolling horizon and to successfully manage transition / interim period
- Deploy new ways of working either designed centrally (e.g. innovation / new product development, CAPEX planning etc..) or locally (e.g. trade & marketing planning)
- Lead Collaborative Business Planning meetings to ensure efficiency:

- Collect required data
- Prepare the right inputs (e.g. business cases,)
- Drive arbitrations on key decisions to be made
- Act as a relay of the Finance Transformation team and as a key advisor to the GM and CFO to prioritize and organize teams’ efforts to successfully implement the various initiatives, leveraging the best practices amongst the Region and the Group
- Define the planning of implementation and ensure the planning is respected
- Alert CODIs members in case of deviation or any major risk that prevent from reaching the objectives
- Drive and organise the change management and trainings to allow a strong step up of teams’ skills
- Drive mindset change at all levels of the organization
- Ensure the adoption and empowerment of each CODI members

**PR SINGAPORE - FUNCTIONAL LEAD**
- Drive Mandates definition and coordinate growth equation exercise (aligned with regional objectives)
- Assess the gap and design an action plan:

- Governance & Processes
- Stakeholders to be included in the transformation
- Adapt key guiding principles to local specificities (e.g. active planning window, etc.)
- Define detailed rules to work with a rolling horizon
- Esp. for finance, ensure teams ability to switch from FY landing mode to rolling forecast
- Drive capabilities upskilling (e.g. playbook, etc.)
- In close collaboration with Transformation teams in PR HQ and PRA (Finance Digital transformation team) identify affiliates’ needs and constraints to operationalize the global designs of Beyond Budget and Polaris
- Animate the “Digital Transformation office” composed by IT JDE expert, Consultant and Fixed Term Contractor

**Specific Requirements from a Technical and Short Term Perspective**
- Lead Finance 4.0 implementation (and Polaris in particular), and coordinate with all other departments
- Instructions to be collected, digested, and adapted to PRS
- Planning of implementation to be shared and respected
- Work with stakeholders to synchronize operations with Polaris reporting requirements
- Management of the flows with other tools
- Polaris for Full P&L
- Polaris for A&P by project
- Adaptive for P&B
- Co-Lead with Commercial team the Anaplan - Volume to Value (V2V) for beyond budget implementation, and coordinate with all other departments
- Participate actively to the S&OP p