Director, International Transformation Business Management Lead
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking CorporationAbout the role
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.
In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.
The anticipated salary range for this role is between $170,000.00 and $235,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.
Role Description
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.
Role Objectives
• 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.
Project, Program & Portfolio Management Standards:
• 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.
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