Global Transition lead em Matosinhos, Portugal

In 1966 , in Marseille, Pierre Bellon laid the foundations of what would become Sodexo, guided by a simple yet powerful idea: improving everyday life through services that truly matter.

Today, Sodexo is a global leader in Food and Services , supporting people at every moment of life, at work, in schools, hospitals and communities. With 426,000 colleagues across 43 countries , we serve 80 million consumers every day, generating €24.1 billion in revenues. Our growth goes hand in hand with social and environmental responsibility, driven by our purpose : to create a better everyday for everyone and build a better life for all.

About Sodexo Business Services (SBS)

Portugal is no exception! Seven years ago, we established Sodexo Business Services (SBS) , our shared service center. Here, you will have the opportunity to join various Financial teams such as Record to Report, Order to Cash, Purchase to Pay, Financial Analysis, and Master Data , supporting European markets and ensuring business growth.

Join Us!

We are looking for talented professionals to be part of our team, bringing unique skills and perspectives to help us grow even further.

Global Transition lead

• The transition lead is a critical role that coordinates all activities when mobilizing, re-mobilizing or de-mobilizing GSA business.
• Simplify and streamline the mobilization programs
• Design and deploy best in class business process from solution design to mobilization that allows better risk management and more predictable results to ensure consistency across the account involved in
• Measure the benefit of implementing one set of tools including guidelines & templates developed for each element of the program, training modules developed for each level in the organization, common reporting and tracking templates
• Providing global expertise and advice support and enable managements from both GSA and local country teams to continuously improve Sodexo performance on the start of projects.
• Support with analysis of sites where the solution is not right or fit for purpose matching client and / or sodexo profitability needs. Make recommendation of changes to make

⚙ What will you do?

Service and Process Deployment

• Support the Bid team with all Mobilization elements of global bids.
• Provide Bid Support and Mobilization input/support to embed best practice leveraging experience having done multiple global deployments.

Bid Support & Mobilization Services

• Define the bid support and mobilization strategy for GSA, considering the future requirements of our clients and the capability within the group.
• Work with individual countries to define bid support and mobilization strategy, in consideration of country capability, market and client requirements.
• Lead the development of the bid support and mobilization Framework.
• Produce and maintain a roadmap to detail the development and continuous improvement of the framework.
• Define and develop the core processes and tools in support of Sodexo GSA business needs.

Mobilization Framework Deployment

• Create the deployment communication and engagement strategy.
• Define the deployment methodology.
• Define the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for measuring success of deployment within Sodexo and reporting of capability assessments.
• Support the roll out of the framework.
• Identify the training needs and support to deliver them for countries in need.
• Define the roles and responsibilities of each of the levels of the bid support and mobilization community.
• Design a training strategy to improve the overall capability of our teams and individuals.

Bid support & mobilization Support

• Provide tender support for strategic tenders within strategic accounts.
• Provide dedicated project management and support for strategic contracts deployment.
• Coordinating global subject matter expert/ supply chain and technology inputs when requested to build the process and tools or to support for complex strategic deals.

Operational Excellence

• Have a basic understanding of Lean Management
• Able to travel and spend time with the frontline to see where there are gaps and non-value adding activities in the processes and be able to draft recommendations of improvements
• Ability to see the ideas drafted to internal stakeholders and clients

What you'll need to succeed?:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree with minimum 5 years of experience in operational or support functions in the service industry
• Ability to travel extensively when a project requires it
• The ideal candidate will have a high level of project management experience, an understanding of Sodexo practices and structure, the ability to draw upon global resources, and be able to work independently.
• Ability to influence without hierarchical authority over multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Has awareness of continuous improvement tools such as Lean Management. Has a productivity and innovation mindset
• Rigorous, detail oriented, autonomous, self-motivated

What we have to offer you?

• Hybrid working model with international traveling

( All travel expenses are covered, and during your two-week audit trips, you’ll have weekends free to explore and unwind.)

• Flexible working hours;
• Health & Life Insurance;
• Meal allowance paid in Meal Card;
• Additional Days off: extra vacation day, employee’s birthday, volunteering day;
• More than 6000 free online courses;
• Opportunity to grow professionally inside the Company;
• Possibility to participate in multicultural projects;
• Several internal activities aiming to promote our team´s wellbeing.

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

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Diversity & Inclusion Statement

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