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"Bacardi X" Program Director (Secondment)
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About the role
Responsibilities
- Program Direction - Flawless leadership, planning, communication and management of ‘experimental’ projects on core business challenges. With support you will ensure projects follow the Design Thinking process (Bacardi Sprints) as much as possible. The success of a project is measured in ‘learnings’ - whether these come from success or failure is immaterial. What is critical is the collection, analysis and communication of these ‘learnings’ to the broader business.
- Role-Modelling and Enabling BEST 10 Behaviours - It is important all members of Bacardi X are passionate about, and capable of, role-modelling the desired Fearless, Founder, Family values of BEST10. You will be capable of creating a psychologically safe space where Primos feel empowered to practice and hone new BEST10 behaviours.
- Communications- Lead the development and evolution of the internal and external comms strategy for Bacardi X; prepare and manage comms materials; assess new comms platforms then maintain integrity across these; assist in the creation of digital / video / audio / print content for the team.
- People Management - Support, mentor and coach a Bacardi X Senior Program Manager who is responsible for i) The development & deployment of Bacardi X’s Primo onboarding & learning curriculum; 2) Daily team operations (team tasks, manage budgets, group agendas) and; 3) support across key Bacardi X experiments and peripheral workstreams.
- Bacardi X Mission / Vision Development - You will want to contribute to the positioning, packaging and performance of Bacardi X.
Skills and Experience
- Superior Organisational Skills - Experience overseeing logistical and executional aspects of complex international workshop programs and workstreams within large corporate organisations
- Program Management Skills (or Certification) - Develop program critical path, clearly communicate and assign roles & responsibilities to team members / partners, ensure project milestones / deliverables are met as required.
- Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills - Confident in the creation of written / spoken narratives. Articulate, and professional speaking capability. Empathic listener.
- Facilitation - From time to time you will be required to help Facilitate workshop sessions, it is important you either have (or are comfortable learning) good Facilitation techniques and running Primo / partner / platform workshops.
- Growth mindset - You believe ‘learning by doing’ and that talents are developed through hard work, good strategies, and most importantly input from others. You worry less about looking smart and put more energy into learning and achieving through collaboration. You are comfortable with ambiguity and want to embrace the unknown with proactivity, energy and drive.
- Business agility - Fast and adaptive beats slow and steadfast. New technologies and evolving customer preferences have moved you beyond a rigid hierarchy, linear processes, siloed business units and crippling bureaucracy.
- Autonomous thinker - You are able to make your own interpretations and decisions rather than act on the purposes, beliefs, judgments, and feelings of others.
- Team Player - Coordinate sprint events & tasks, work well with the other team members. You are reliable, accountable. You excite and enthuse others, have fun and are prepared to travel across the world for work.
Our culture
We share the passion and entrepreneurial flair of our founder and are guided by our three culture pillars - Fearless, Family and Founders, they inspire our Primos to be the best they can be and drive us forward in all we do. But what does this mean?
· Being Fearless; means adopting an agile mindset, being comfortable trying new things and taking risks. We are empowered to question, challenge and innovate.
· Family; We treat each other, and our communities, like Family. Always.
· Founders; The spirit of entrepreneurship is at the heart of everything we do. We see the business as if it’s our own. We do the right thing for the business and we all take accountability for our work.
When you join Bacardi, you become part of our family and gain more than just a job.
Disclaimer: Bacardi is an equal opportunity employer that values workforce diversity. Diversity is core to our business: by embedding diversity into all aspects of our culture, we maximize the opportunity to achieve sustainable business success and growth. The duties and responsibilities described in the role profile might not be a comprehensive list.