Project Lead - Conquest

Job description

**Job Responsibilities** **Project Conquest Strategy and Execution** - Define and drive the Project Conquest roadmap aligned with organizational priorities and business strategy. - Translate Project Conquest objectives into clear workstreams, milestones, governance cadence, and measurable outcomes. - Partner with Technical, Formulation, R&D, Field Stations, Regulatory, Commercial, and Supply Chain teams to ensure aligned execution. - Establish structured review mechanisms to monitor progress, risks, interdependencies, and decision points. - Ensure Project Conquest delivers sustainable process improvements that improve speed, quality, cost efficiency, and market readiness **Project Conquest Leadership** - Lead Project Conquest, focused on building sustainable and efficient process flows to enhance business outcomes. - Identify bottlenecks in current workflows and implement process optimization and standardization. - Enable better cross-functional collaboration to improve speed-to-market and innovation excellence. - Track and deliver measurable improvements in cycle time, quality, cost efficiency, and market readiness. - Drive initiatives to position UPL as: - First in Technical - First in Formulation - First in Go-To-Market (GTM) **Cross-Functional Collaboration** - Act as a bridge between Technical Development, R&D, Field Stations, Regulatory, Commercial, Supply Chain, and other enabling functions. - Work with functional teams to map current-state and future-state process flows, clarify ownership, and remove execution roadblocks. - Partner with Global and Regional Marketing teams to align on strategic priorities, ensure seamless execution of Project Conquest initiatives, and strengthen the link between Technical, Formulation, and Go-To-Market (GTM) objectives - Collaborate with leadership to prioritize Project Conquest interventions and allocate resources effectively. - Influence stakeholders to drive alignment on transformation goals, governance expectations, and change initiatives. **Performance Governance and Tracking** - Develop and maintain Project Conquest dashboards and review formats for real-time progress monitoring and decision-making. - Define KPIs and success metrics across cycle time, quality, cost, speed-to-market, and market readiness. - Ensure timely escalation of risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks with clear mitigation actions and ownership. **Process Excellence and Innovation** - Introduce best-in-class practices and continuous improvement methodologies across Project Conquest workstreams. - Drive standardization, simplification, and removal of redundancies in key workflows connected with Technical, Formulation, and GTM priorities. - Identify opportunities to enhance innovation throughput, execution reliability, and value realization. - Benchmark against industry best practices to continuously improve processes and delivery effectiveness. **Change Management and Capability Building** - Lead change initiatives to ensure smooth adoption of Project Conquest process changes and governance mechanisms. - Build capability within participating teams through training, enablement, workstream reviews, and knowledge sharing. - Foster a culture of ownership, agility, innovation, and business outcome orientation. **Required Skills / Experience** - Postgraduate degree in Science, Agriculture, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Engineering, or related field; MBA is a plus. - 10–15 years of experience in R&D, Technical Development, Formulation, Project Management, Business Transformation, or Process Excellence roles. - Proven experience in leading strategic cross-functional transformation programs with measurable business impact. - Strong understanding of R&D, Technical, Formulation, and GTM processes in Agri/Chemical/Pharma or related industries. - Experience working with cross-functional and global teams, with strong stakeholder management and governance skills.