Position Title:  Sr Manager Performance Delivery & Governance

Date:  Aug 19, 2026
Requisition ID:  29745
Work Location: 

Lausanne, VD, CH, 1007

Be a part of a revolutionary change

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

We are looking for a Sr Manager Performance Delivery & Governance, who will be responsible for shaping and driving the organization’s strategic direction, ensuring alignment from strategy development through to execution. This role will lead the functional strategy cycle, translating strategic priorities into actionable plans using frameworks such as OGSM, while guiding leadership through key strategic questions and facilitating functional stakeholders alignment.

The position focuses on identifying growth opportunities, driving business model innovation, and enabling cross-functional initiatives. It will provide insight through in-depth market, industry, and competitor analysis, as well as evaluate strategic opportunities.

This role plays a key role in long-term planning by monitoring business trends, delivering strategic insights, and supporting investment allocation and investment decisions. Additionally, the role oversees strategy execution, performance tracking, cost and budget excellence and the development of scaled competitive intelligence capabilities. 

Key Accountabilities:

  • Lead and oversee multiple workstreams contributing to the development of strategic plans, operating with minimal guidance
  • Lead by example in the implementation of digital initiatives, AI adoption and guiding change management
  • Apply advanced business modelling and quantitative analysis to inform strategic decision-making and identify value creation opportunities
  • Ensure projects and programs are managed effectively, coordinating stakeholders and orchestrating delivery to achieve defined business outcomes
  • Identify and prioritize key value drivers, ensuring alignment across the organization as well as x-functionally to maximize impact
  • Develop high-quality strategic hypotheses with limited guidance, supporting clear and insight-led direction setting
  • Structure and define strategic problems using robust methodologies to enable effective analysis and solution development

We’re looking for someone with:

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or similar
  • Certifications (nice to have):
    • Project/Program management (PMP, PRINCE2)
    • Strategy / analytics / finance-related credentials

Experience Required

🔹 Strategic & Leadership Experience

  • 8–12+ years in Strategy, consulting, corporate strategy, or transformation roles
  • Experience developing and executing business strategy, not just supporting it
  • Proven ability to influence senior leadership and decision-making

🔹 Performance & Governance

  • Experience in Driving performance frameworks (OKRs, OGSM, Balanced Scorecard) and governance structures, reporting, and decision forums
  • Track record of tracking KPIs and ensuring accountability across teams

🔹 Cross-functional & Program Leadership

  • Leading complex, multi-workstream initiatives
  • Managing stakeholders across functions (finance, operations, tech, etc.)
  • Experience delivering large transformation or change programs

🔹 Analytics & Commercial Insight

  • Strong background in:
    • Business modelling and financial analysis
    • Evaluating growth opportunities and investment decisions
  • Experience with:
    • Market analysis, competitor intelligence, and trend forecasting

What we offer:

Our success depends on the talented people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress.

You will join a company that invests in you. We will support your growth as an employee through individual development and structured career management. You will join a dynamic, fast-paced work environment in a constantly evolving industry. Our employees have the courage, curiosity, and conviction to see possibilities where others only see challenges. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.

• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.

• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.

• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.

For more information, please visit www.pmi.com and www.pmiscience.com. #LIHYBRID

 

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