Deputy Senior Manager, Transformation & PMO

Job Title: Deputy Senior Manager, Transformation & PMO

Locations: Lekki, Ikoyi and Ikotun - Lagos

Role Overview

• The Deputy Senior Manager, Transformation & PMO is the operational backbone of FoodCo's Transformation Office, responsible for ensuring disciplined execution of the enterprise transformation portfolio.
• Reporting to the Chief Transformation Officer, the role drives governance, execution cadence, accountability, and value realization across strategic initiatives.
• Acting as the CTO's deputy, the incumbent provides leadership across steering committees, removes execution bottlenecks, and ensures transformation initiatives deliver measurable improvements in EBITDA, productivity, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
• The role is not responsible for defining strategy, it is responsible for ensuring that strategy is executed with speed, discipline, and measurable business impact.
• Success is measured by enterprise value delivered, not projects completed. Strategic Mission To institutionalize FoodCo's transformation agenda by embedding world-class programme governance, execution discipline, and value realization, ensuring every approved initiative delivers measurable financial and operational impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end transformation portfolio across all strategic initiatives.
• Maintain the enterprise transformation roadmap, prioritization framework, and implementation calendar.
• Ensure workstreams remain aligned with FoodCo's strategic priorities and transformation objectives.
• Monitor portfolio health, interdependencies, risks, and execution capacity.
• Ensure projects transition smoothly from Strategy & Growth into enterprise implementation.
• Recommend portfolio reprioritization based on business impact and resource availability.
• Establish and enforce enterprise PMO governance standards, methodologies, and reporting frameworks.
• Monitor project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical paths across all transformation initiatives.
• Drive disciplined programme governance through structured weekly, monthly, and quarterly review cycles.
• Maintain enterprise transformation dashboards and executive reporting.
• Ensure consistent use of project management tools, templates, and governance processes.
• Embed McKinsey-style execution discipline across all transformation initiatives.
• Represent the Chief Transformation Officer at steering committees, executive reviews, and governance forums.
• Challenge initiative owners using objective performance data to maintain delivery momentum.
• Escalate risks, delays, and decisions requiring executive intervention.
• Facilitate executive decision-making through structured analysis and recommendations.
• Build strong relationships across all business units to drive enterprise collaboration.
• Act as the Transformation Office's second-in-command during the CTO's absence.
• Partner with Finance to validate transformation benefits against approved business cases.
• Monitor realization of revenue growth, cost reduction, productivity improvement, and EBITDA enhancement.
• Develop value realization dashboards and financial tracking mechanisms.
• Conduct post-implementation benefit reviews.
• Identify value leakage and recommend corrective actions.
• Ensure transformation benefits are reflected in operational performance and financial statements.
• Conduct rapid diagnostics for delayed or underperforming transformation initiatives.
• Apply structured problem-sol