Manager – Transformation Office

We are building a Transformation Office to drive a portfolio of operational, digital, capital and people projects across our sites. We need someone to make that portfolio run with discipline: explicit scope, honest status, visible risks and decisions made at the right level.

THE ROLE
Reports to: Chief Transformation Officer
Base: Mumbai, with around 20% travel to our sites and supplier or technology partners (more during project launches)
Scope: individual contributor or small-team role, with authority to coordinate projects across functions. Department heads keep line authority; you keep the portfolio honest.

You will give the CTO and project sponsors a current, evidence-based view of scope, milestones, risks, decisions, resources, spend and perks, and you will make sure missed commitments are seen and resolved at the right level.

WHAT YOU WILL DO
Set up and control the portfolio
Maintain one authoritative portfolio of active, proposed, paused and completed transformation projects
Confirm objective, scope, benefit, sponsor, leader,



dependencies, resources and success measures for every proposal
Apply agreed prioritisation criteria and prepare portfolio options for CTO decisions
Spot duplicate initiatives, conflicting timelines and resource overload across sites and functions

Define and plan projects
Build charters and business cases with technical and operational owners
Create work breakdown structures, milestone plans, Gantt charts, RACI matrices and stage gates, scaled to each project's size and risk
Make acceptance criteria, assumptions, exclusions and dependencies explicit before execution starts
Set schedule, cost and benefit baselines after sponsor approval

Track execution and escalate
Collect evidence-based updates and keep milestone, action, RAID, decision and change-control records current
Run several projects at once and separate genuine critical-path risk from routine activity
Follow up fi

📌 Manager – Transformation Office Mumbai
🏢 Dholakia Lab Grown Diamond
📍 Mumbai