20 feb
Zendesk
Ciudad de México
Who we're looking for
The Senior Principal, Business Transformation leads high-priority cross-functional strategic initiatives, owning end-to-end planning and execution through the full initiative lifecycle! This involves partnering with senior leaders across the organization and, at times, external partners (such as PE and/or consultants). This role requires high intuition for business, strong strategic and analytical thinking, and effective communication and social skills to ensure initiative success and relevant business impact.
What you'll be doing
- Own one or more transformation initiatives in partnership with senior leadership, financial sponsors (PE), and/or third-party consultants, from inception through implementation,
in areas such as:
- Case development and execution
- Process and/or organizational design and implementation
- Strategy execution planning and implementation
- Provide high-quality, data-backed guidance and recommendations to senior leaders to drive business outcomes
- Build and lead project team required to achieve key objectives
- Identify and drive key activities, including crafting meeting cadence, leading meetings, owning content / results, driving analysis, making recommendations, and engaging with cross-functional partners to get input and consensus
- Partner with Program Management to solidify and lead all aspects of project plans and governance
- Lead organisational change activities, as needed
- Identify and resolve roadblocks when they arise
- Establish POV on when and how to transition ongoing operations back to the business
- Lead development of systems and processes to track and measure initiative success
- Lead development of reporting, E-Staff/Board content, and other communications for transformation efforts
- Lead or support other high-priority ad hoc initiatives (e.g., strategy offsites), as needed
- This role would be expected to be based in Mexico City, at least 2 days/week in the Zendesk office and 3 days remote/flexible
Basic Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience in operations improvement, business process improvement, change management, data analysis, management consulting, private equity, corporate strategy, and/or business operations
- Excellent communication at all levels and ability to build consensus and lead change
- Skilled at actively handling and communicating risk
- Urgency, positivity, growth mindset, and collaborative teammate
- English fluency
Preferred Qualifications:
- Go-to-market and/or commerce-to-cash / revenue management functional experience (key areas of focus for our business transformation)
- Management consulting
- Corporate strategy and/or business operations
- Project / program management
- Change management
**Where We Work**:
Being digital first doesn’t mean we’re digital only. In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our Mexico City office on a weekly basis for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.
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