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About the Role

As Principal Lead – Business Performance and Strategic Operations, you will act as a trusted advisor to executive leaders, helping connect priorities across multiple functions, simplify complexity, and accelerate delivery against strategic objectives. You will play a critical role in improving organizational effectiveness by driving accountability, governance, business performance, and transformation outcomes.

Responsibilities

Partner with senior executives and leadership teams to translate strategy into operational plans, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
Connect activity across multiple business functions, ensuring dependencies, risks, opportunities, and trade-offs are identified and effectively managed.
Act as a trusted advisor, providing strategic insights, recommendations, and decision support to executive stakeholders.
Drive governance, planning, and operating rhythms that improve business performance, accountability, and delivery discipline.
Lead the development and execution of business operations roadmaps that support strategic priorities and business plans, including OPEX and CAPEX planning, while proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
Lead and support strategic initiatives, transformation activities, and business improvement programs that deliver sustainable outcomes.
Help leaders prioritize effectively by balancing competing demands and focusing effort on the highest-value work.
Strengthen portfolio performance through greater visibility of commitments, risks, actions, and progress against objectives.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and high performance across a diverse and complex operating environment.
Influence enterprise-wide outcomes through strong stakeholder engagement, executive presence, and cross-functional leadership.
Simplify complexity by synthesizing information, identifying themes, and providing clear, actionable recommendations.
Support commercial, operational, and transformation outcomes through data-driven insights and strategic business management practices.
Champion continuous improvement and modern ways of working that enhance organizational effectiveness and execution.

Requirements

Significant experience in strategic business operations, executive partnering, business management, transformation, or portfolio leadership.
Demonstrated success supporting senior leaders to execute strategy across large, complex organizations.
Proven commercial and business acumen, with an ability to understand operational performance, business drivers, and strategic trade-offs.
Experience leading governance, planning, business performance, and executive reporting processes.
Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing capability across matrixed environments.
Strong change management and transformation experience.
Excellent judgment, resilience, and ability to operate autonomously.
Outstanding communication skills with the ability to translate complexity into clear business insights and recommendations.
A track record of improving organizational performance, alignment, and execution.
High emotional intelligence, credibility, and executive presence.

Skills

Strategic operations
Executive partnering
Business management
Transformation
Portfolio leadership
Commercial acumen
Stakeholder management
Influencing
Change management
Governance
Planning
Business performance
Executive reporting
Communication
Emotional intelligence
Executive presence

Work Type

Permanent