Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation

Pandora Production Co., Ltd. (Prawet)

Prawet

Bangkok, Thailand

Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora is a global jewellery company known for its hand-finished and contemporary jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora is producing its unique jewellery solely in Thailand. In 2017, Pandora's total revenue was DKK 22.8 billion. With 117 million pieces of jewellery crafted in Thailand in 2017 to be sold in more than 100 countries on six continents through around 7,800 points of sale, Pandora PRODUCTION THAILAND (PPT), the crafting facilities in Thailand, is recognised as the world's largest jewellery manufacturer by the production volume. Pandora has been manufacturing its jewellery in Thailand since 1989 when Per Enevoldsen, Pandora's founder and a goldsmith by trade, set up the foundation for the company's crafting facilities in Bangkok.

About this position

Imagine being responsible for C&S strategy, strategy update and strategic analysis for the world’s largest jewellery brand. If you love solving challenges with your superb strategy analysis skill, then you might be our next senior manager for Strategy & Transformation at Pandora Crafting & Supply.

Responsibilities

• C&S Strategy: Deliver C&S strategy formulation, development, planning and deployment.
• Strategy Update: Deliver C&S strategy update to Pandora Group as well as C&S Management Team according to strategic planning cycle.
• Strategic Analysis: Support C&S Management team in performing in-depth analysis to prepare strategic recommendation to drive C&S long-term competitive advantages.
• Conduct extensive market research, benchmarking and business analysis to gain insights on the overall macro-economic situation, industry trends, consumer behaviors and emerging technologies for strategy formulation and development.
• Analyze C&S information (e.g., performance, forecast) as well as overall competitive landscape of the jewelry industry to assess and identify potential threats or opportunities.
• Support in translating Pandora Group’s strategies and strategic goals to C&S’s strategy and strategic goals.
• Coordinate with Pandora Group and Clusters on C&S strategic initiatives which requires cross-functionally collaboration and moderate communication/feedback channels among C&S and global stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops with C&S leadership team (N-2 and above) to formulate new strategy and ideate C&S strategic initiatives and functional initiatives to deliver the strategies as well as improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Crafting & Supply operations.
• Conduct strategic projects feasibility studies including high level end-to-end value chain impact assessment, in collaboration with global stakeholders.
• Develop detailed project charters for newly formulated strategic initiatives with clear objectives, scope, plan, deliverables and milestones as well as define performance indicators to track the progress & success of strategic initiatives.
• Be a thought partner for C&S management team by providing insight and solutions to issues, risks and emerging challenges.
• Collaborate with C&S Leadership Team (N-2 and above) to gather relevant data and insights for executive presentations and reports.
• Develop compelling, informative and visually appealing presentations or reports to communicate of C&S strategy status and progress highlighting key achievements, milestones, and risks findings, and future directions to various stakeholders, including Pandora ELT and Board of Directors.
• Develop strategic recommendations based on research findings to guide strategic decision-making.
• Support the management decision making process for C&S strategy by identifying pain points, gathering and analyzing the information then formulating recommendations to propose to the management for decision making.

Requirements

• Business administration, engineering,