Associate Vice President - Change and Project Manager

AVP - Change and Project Manager

Job Description :

Job Title – Associate Vice President - Change and Project Manager

Level - 4B

About the Function:

Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are critical to the day-to-day performance of our business. With a team of over 2,000 dedicated and hardworking people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila.

Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you’ll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and encouraging culture.

About the Role

Diageo Global Business Operation (GBO), a multi-functional global shared services function established to liberate and equip markets to deliver the Diageo Performance Ambition.  This is achieved through: 

• The delivery of extraordinary end to end process execution; 

• Generating performance improving insights from data; 

• Providing CPG leading digital capabilities and solutions; 

Under-pinned by secure and stable operations and putting customers and consumers at the heart of everything we do.   

GBO is looking to hire a Senior Manager who will be part of the central Change and Transformation function for GBO, Experienced on Organisational change and project management transformation initiatives while ensuring projects deliver on time and achieve balanced adoption across the business.

The Organizational Change and Project Manager will lead end to end projects involving structural process shifts. Integrate Project management rigor with change methodologies like ADKAR to align customers, mitigate risks and embed new ways of working. Success will hinge on balancing timelines/ budgets with employee readiness and long term benefits realisations.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, execution, and closure, including scope definition, resource allocation, risk management, and progress reporting.

• Lead organizational impacts of change, conducting customer analysis, readiness evaluations, and resistance mapping to tailor interventions.

• Develop and implement integrated plans for communications, training, coaching, and engagement to develop adoption and minimize disruption.

• Facilitate workshops, align senior leaders, and coach frontline managers to champion the change and reinforce new behaviors.

• Track benefits realization through KPIs like adoption rates, user proficiency, and ROI, adjusting strategies based on data.

• Lead cross-functional teams, vendors, and dependencies while ensuring compliance with organizational change frameworks.

Skills required -

Technical 

• PROSCI Certification

• Extensive program/ project planning and execution skills in handling large and complex change and transformation programs/projects 

• Experience of using a variety of project and business change management methodologies 

• Proven project and modelling skills, to represent information in forms that enhance decision making and communications. 

• Strong understanding of Global Change delivery and program lifecycle 

• Expert user of MS Project, JIRA or similar project management tools and MS Visio.  

• Experience of using a variety of project and business change management methodologies 

• Fluent in MS Office. 

• Understanding of Lean / Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement 

• Understanding of Finance processes O2C, S2P, R2R  

Behavioural/ Leadership 

• Strong communication and documentation skills  

• Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills 

• Customer management with a global attitude decision-making, influencing and challenging ability 

• Dedicated and can empower other towards project goals 

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We adopt diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. 

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-02-18

Experience Level

Executive Level