Project Manager – APAC Legal Entity Rationalization (LER)

Title: Project Manager – APAC Legal Entity Rationalization (LER) 

Purpose 

Lead the end-to-end delivery of the APAC Legal Entity Rationalization (LER) program across multiple countries, driving alignment, decision-making, and execution through influence rather than direct authority. The role is expected to provide leadership across cross-functional teams and ensure successful delivery of a strategically important transformation program. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Drive end-to-end execution of the APAC LER program across the region. 

• Drive alignment and decision-making across Finance, Legal, Tax, IT, HR, Operations and country leadership teams to ensure timely delivery of program objectives. 

• Maintain the integrated program plan, milestones, risks, dependencies, and action logs. 

• Coordinate and host country-level and regional LER governance meetings. 

• Track progress across all workstreams and ensure follow-up of agreed actions. 

• Act as the central coordination point between country teams, APAC functions, external advisors, and Group stakeholders. 

• Influence and coordinate 50+ cross-functional stakeholders across APAC without direct reporting authority, ensuring accountability and execution across all workstreams. 

• Support issue resolution and escalation management across countries and functions. 

• Challenge assumptions, identify execution gaps, and proactively drive resolution of complex cross-functional issues. 

• Coordinate benefits tracking and reporting inputs from Finance, Tax, Legal, and Operations teams. 

• Manage program documentation, reporting packs, dashboards, and management updates. 

• Coordinate external advisor engagement and support budget/vendor administration processes. 

• Support transition planning, business transfers, entity integrations, liquidations, and related activities as required. 

• Prepare and facilitate Steering Committee and executive governance meetings, providing clear recommendations, decision points, and escalation where appropriate. 

Preferred Experience 

• 8–15 years of experience in project/program management, transformation, M&A integration, corporate restructuring, or related fields. Legal exposure and corporate governance awareness

• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional transformation programs involving multiple countries and executive stakeholders. 

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. 

• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and drive execution without direct authority. 

• Strong influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive outcomes without formal line management responsibility. 

• Experience working with senior executives and governance forums. 

• Legal entity rationalization, post-merger integration, corporate governance, finance, legal, or consulting experience is advantageous. 

• Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels, with a willingness to be hands-on in planning, reporting, issue tracking, and day-to-day execution. 

Key Interfaces 

• Country Project Managers and Functional Teams 

• Program Sponsor 

• APAC Functional Leads (Legal, Tax, IT, HR, Operations) 

• External Advisors 

• Group CAO / LER Team 

Success Measures 

• Delivery of agreed program milestones. 

• Alignment and commitment across country and functional stakeholders despite the absence of direct reporting relationships. 

• Timely executive decision-making through effective governance and stakeholder engagement. 

• Accurate and transparent reporting. 

• Effective stakeholder coordination across countries and functions. 

• Successful transition of entities through integration, transfer, or liquidation activities.