Director, International Transformation Business Management Lead

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation•New York, NY

8d•$170,000 - $235,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The International Transformation Office: Business Management Lead is a senior transformation role responsible for driving global transformation delivery discipline, portfolio governance, execution transparency, and organizational effectiveness across the International Transformation Office, and institutionalizes a high-performing management framework for the international transformation portfolio. Reporting to the Head of International Transformation Office, this role serves as a central integrator across transformation priorities, helping translate strategic objectives into coordinated plans, governance routines, communications, and measurable execution outcomes. This role exists to ensure the International Transformation Office operates with the rigor, visibility, and coordination required to manage a complex global transformation agenda. As the portfolio expands across functions, regions, and delivery models, the organization requires stronger business management leadership to align priorities, establish execution standards, improve decision support, and connect strategy to day-to-day delivery. This individual ensures that project, program, and portfolio management discipline; communications and change practices; governance routines; and executive reporting standards are aligned to strategic priorities, financial discipline, regulatory expectations, and delivery outcomes.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in business management, transformation management, strategy execution, program management, or chief-of-staff-like leadership roles within large, complex organizations.
Experience supporting enterprise or international transformation portfolios within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
Strong experience establishing project, program, and portfolio management disciplines across multi-workstream initiatives.
Demonstrated success in executive governance, management reporting, communications strategy, and cross-functional coordination.
Strong understanding of financial planning, resource management, portfolio governance, and organizational operating rhythms.
Experience working across functions such as Technology, Operations, Finance, Procurement / Sourcing, Risk, and business leadership.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop executive-ready materials and drive alignment with senior stakeholders.
Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage across a complex global stakeholder environment.

Nice To Haves

Strategic and highly organized, with the ability to bring structure to complex transformation environments.
Execution-focused and detail-oriented, while able to maintain an enterprise-wide perspective.
Strong interpersonal judgment and credibility across business, technology, finance, sourcing, and control functions.
Calm under pressure, effective in ambiguous environments, and able to coordinate across competing priorities.
Highly effective at turning leadership intent into actionable plans, governance mechanisms, and organizational follow-through.
Acts as a force multiplier for the Head of International Transformation Office by improving alignment, execution discipline, and organizational effectiveness across the global transformation agenda.

Responsibilities

Establish and run the business management framework for the International Transformation Office, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into structured plans, governance routines, and measurable execution mechanisms.
Support the Head of International Transformation Office in setting portfolio priorities, sequencing work, and aligning strategic objectives to transformation roadmaps.
Drive consistency in how initiatives are planned, governed, tracked, escalated, and reported across the global transformation portfolio.
Develop operating rhythms, management routines, and executive materials that improve visibility, accountability, and decision-making.
Help create greater organizational clarity across priorities, interdependencies, timelines, risks, and outcomes.
Define and embed project, program, and portfolio management standards across the international transformation agenda.
Standardize core disciplines including planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, status reporting, issue escalation, risk management, and benefits realization.
Improve portfolio-level visibility into delivery health, execution risks, resource constraints, and critical decisions.
Establish clear governance expectations across initiative owners, workstream leads, and transformation stakeholders.
Drive the adoption of consistent reporting, KPI frameworks, and portfolio review mechanisms across major programs.
Lead the development of change management and communications strategy for the International Transformation Office, ensuring major global initiatives are supported by clear stakeholder engagement, messaging, and adoption planning.
Establish standards for transformation communications, leadership messaging, stakeholder updates, and organizational change planning.
Partner with initiative leaders to improve readiness, communication quality, stakeholder alignment, and change execution across the portfolio.
Drive consistency in how transformation goals, progress, decisions, and impacts are communicated to senior leadership and broader stakeholder groups.
Support leadership engagement across regions and functions to improve understanding, alignment, and momentum behind the transformation agenda.
Oversee governance routines for the International Transformation Office, including leadership forums, portfolio reviews, committee materials, management packs, and decision escalations.
Support the Head of International Transformation Office in preparing executive updates, strategic materials, and cross-functional decision points.
Ensure governance forums are focused on the right priorities, supported by the right data, and structured to enable timely decisions and accountability.
Drive follow-through on actions, decisions, and escalations arising from governance routines.
Strengthen the quality, consistency, and usefulness of executive reporting across the transformation portfolio.
Serve as a central coordinating point across demand management, delivery capacity, financial planning, and strategic sourcing activities that affect transformation execution.
Connect portfolio priorities with demand intake, resource planning, financial oversight, and third-party engagement considerations.
Partner with Finance to improve transparency into portfolio funding, cost tracking, budget alignment, and financial decision support.
Work closely with Strategic Sourcing / Procurement and delivery leaders to ensure vendor-related decisions, dependencies, and timelines are integrated into portfolio planning and governance.
Support stronger alignment across business demand, execution supply, commercial decisions, and portfolio priorities.
Improve execution performance through stronger management controls, performance tracking, and early identification of delivery risks and structural bottlenecks.
Surface portfolio-level risks, decision gaps, dependency conflicts, and delivery pressures early for leadership action.
Drive remediation tracking and follow-up discipline across key issues and commitments.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Finance, and control functions to ensure transformation governance is consistent with enterprise expectations and regulatory standards.
Promote a culture of operational discipline, accountability, and continuous improvement across the Transformation Office.