As a Mid-to-Senior PMO within our retail corporate structure, you will act as the strategic anchor for the Fresh food business, steering cross-functional initiatives and building structural rigor. This role requires an exceptionally energetic leader capable of orchestrating complex business reviews, driving key strategic projects, and establishing metrics-driven supplier evaluation frameworks. Navigating a rapidly changing retail landscape, you will manage multiple high-stakes priorities simultaneously to ensure our strategic roadmaps align perfectly with commercial execution and bottom-line efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Business Reviews & Governance: Design, facilitate, and lead robust monthly and quarterly business reviews (MBRs/QBRs). Analyze organizational KPIs, identify retail performance bottlenecks, and realign cross-functional teams with overall commercial strategies.
- Key Project Management: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of critical commercial and retail initiatives. Manage complex dependencies, evaluate supply and commercial risks proactively, and ensure seamless delivery under aggressive timelines across multiple workstreams.
- Supplier Evaluation Frameworks: Architect, optimize, and manage comprehensive vendor and supplier evaluation systems. Assess partner performance quantitatively and qualitatively to drive cost efficiency, operational compliance, and strategic retail partnership enhancements.
Requirements
- Target Industry Background: 5 to 10 years of proven professional experience in PMO, Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy, or a similar capacity specifically within the Retail or FMCG sectors. Deep structural understanding of retail store/digital operations and commercial vendor ecosystems is mandatory.
- Agility & Adaptability: Demonstrated capability to thrive and pivot smoothly within a volatile, fast-paced corporate retail environment.
- Multi-tasking & Execution: Exceptional organizational capability to balance high-level strategic governance with granular project tracking without dropping the ball.
- Energetic Leadership: High emotional intelligence and persuasive communication skills to influence stakeholders, align diverse commercial incentives, and drive cross-functional momentum.
- PMP, Agile/Scrum, or equivalent project management professional certifications are highly advantageous.
Skills Required
- 5 to 10 years professional experience in PMO, management consulting, corporate strategy, or similar within Retail or FMCG
- Deep structural understanding of retail store and digital operations and commercial vendor ecosystems
- Demonstrated agility and adaptability to pivot in a volatile, fast-paced corporate retail environment
- Strong multi-tasking, organizational capability and execution skills to manage multiple high-stakes priorities
- High emotional intelligence and persuasive communication skills to influence stakeholders and drive cross-functional alignment
- PMP, Agile/Scrum, or equivalent project management professional certification
What We Do
Makro PRO is an exciting new digital venture by the iconic Makro. Our proud purpose is to build a technology platform that will help make business possible for restaurant owners, hotels, and independent retailers, and open the door for sellers. Makro PRO brings together the best talent across multi-nationals to transform the B2B marketplace ecosystem. We welcome bold, energetic, and thoughtful people who share our belief in collaboration, diversity, excellence, and putting customers at the heart of our work.
