Business Transformation (Supervising Associate & Assistant Director)

Location: Colombo - Hybrid (2-3 days WFO in a week)Job type: Permanent with MNC (direct hire)Supervising Associate - 7 to 10 years of relevant experienceAssistant Director - 10 to 15 years of relevant experienceKey responsibilities:• Partner with Executive Leadership, Partners and Functional Heads to frame strategic priorities, clarify outcomes and shape enterprise transformation agendas.• Lead go-to-market strategy and execution initiatives, including market and stakeholder insight, proposition development, service or capability launch planning, governance, adoption and performance measures.• Design target operating models covering capabilities, organisation, governance, decision rights, roles, ways of working, technology enablement and implementation roadmaps.• Lead organisational change management across complex program, including stakeholder strategy, change impact and readiness, leadership alignment, communication, learning, adoption, culture and behavioural change.• Translate strategic choices into credible business cases, transformation roadmaps, investment priorities, milestones and valuerealisation measures.• Lead complex, global and cross-functional program across multiple workstreams, ensuring clear accountability, effective governance, risk management and quality outcomes.• Provide objective challenge, market perspectives and data-led insight to support senior leadership decisions and accelerate action.• Build and sustain trusted senior stakeholder relationships, navigate competing priorities, and facilitate executive workshops and decision forums.• Oversee the development of leadership-ready presentations, dashboards, recommendations and program communications that are concise and decision-oriented.• Lead teams through ambiguity, set quality standards, coach consultants and contribute to a high-performing, inclusive consulting culture.• Develop reusable transformation methods, frameworks and knowledge assets.Skills and attributes for success• Strong business transformation and management consulting mindset, with the ability to connect strategy, operating model, people, technology and execution.• Demonstrated expertise in go-to-market strategy, target operating model design and organisational change management.• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, synthesise complex information and provide clear, commercially grounded recommendations.• Proven experience influencing C-suite, Partner and senior functional stakeholders in complex matrix organisations.• Leadership of multi-workstream global program, including governance, dependencies, risks, resources and value delivery.• Excellent executive communication, storytelling, facilitation and negotiation skills, with a strong focus on quality.• Confidence leading geographically distributed teams and working effectively across cultures and time zones.• Awareness of AI, automation, analytics and digital capabilities as enablers of business and workforce transformation.