Transformation / Senior Project Manager at Bature Brewery - IDYHA Capital

IDYHA Capital - Our client, Bature Brewery, is a fast-growing brewery and hospitality business operating across multiple revenue streams, including brewing and production, taprooms, wholesale distribution, events, and brand partnerships. The business is transitioning from founder-led scale-up into a more structured, performance-driven organisation with a strengthened executive team, clearer governance, and disciplined financial controls.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Transformation / Senior Project Manager

Location: Lagos 
Employment Type: Full-time, Leadership
Reports To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with close working relationships with the COO and CFO
Governance Interface: Board / Advisory Board

Role Purpose
The Transformation Manager / Senior Project Manager plays a central role in this transition by:

• Converting strategy into prioritised, executable initiatives
• Driving cross-functional delivery across a complex, multi-revenue business
• Strengthening governance, execution discipline, and performance cadence
• Acting as a key leverage point for the CEO and Executive Team by ensuring clarity, follow-through, and momentum
• This role sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and leadership, with a mandate to ensure that important initiatives move forward decisively and consistently.

Key Responsibilities
Business Transformation & Strategic Execution:

• Drive the delivery of Bature Brewery’s business transformation agenda, aligned to profitability, operational efficiency, governance maturity, and scalability
• Translate strategic priorities into structured programmes and projects with clear milestones, owners, and timelines
• Maintain an integrated view of transformation initiatives and ensure alignment across departments
• Identify execution risks early and work with senior leaders to resolve them
• Identify Business Sustainability elements and drive processes to eliminate risks and build into operational engagements.

Programme & Project Management (PMO Function):

• Act as the central point of coordination for strategic and cross-functional projects
• Own business initiatives (as the champion ) and prioritize execution based on strategic value, financial impact, and organisational capacity
• Ensure all Transformation projects have clear scope, success metrics, and reporting cadence
• Track progress rigorously and escalate issues where delivery is at risk
• Enforce discipline around project selection, sequencing, and closure.

Executive Coordination & Governance Cadence:

• Structure and coordinate executive meetings, monthly performance reviews, and key decision forums
• Prepare agendas, briefing materials, and decision papers
• Capture decisions, actions, and accountabilities, and ensure consistent follow-through
• Maintain visibility over executive priorities, risks, and interdependencies
• Draft internal summaries, updates, and briefing notes as required.

Performance Management & Reporting Discipline:

• Jointly own with the CFO the implementation and ongoing use of scorecards, KPIs, and performance dashboards
• Ensure timely, high-quality performance inputs from department heads
• Consolidate updates into clear, decision-focused executive summaries
• Work closely with the CFO and COO to reinforce a fact-based, accountability-driven performance culture.

Cross-Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Management:

• Act as an integrator across Operations, Production, Sales, Finance, F&B, and External Relations
• Ensure alignment where priorities compete, or dependencies exist
• Support senior leaders by structuring communications and tracking commitments
• Enable collaboration without diluting functional accountability.

What Success Looks Like (12–18 Months)

• Strategic initiatives are delivered on time and with clear ownership
• Executive meetings are decision-oriented with strong follow-through
• Leadership operates with clearer priorities and reduced friction
• Governance, reporting, and execution feel structured and predictable
• The business demonstrates improved operational discipline and scalability
• Business Sustainability index is within +/- 5%.

Experience & Background
Required:

• 5 to 7 years’ experience in:
  • Project, programme, or portfolio management Business transformation or strategy execution roles
  • Experience working closely with Executives and senior leadership teams
  • Proven track record delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives
  • Strong exposure into strategy development and Risk management
• Strongly Preferred:
  • Experience in FMCG, hospitality, manufacturing, or multi-site operations
  • Exposure to high-growth or scale-up environments
  • Experience supporting governance or organisational transitions
  • Strong commercial and financial literacy.

Tools & Systems (Preferred Experience):
Candidates should be comfortable operating in a modern, digital-first environment, with experience using or rapidly adopting the following tools:
Collaboration & Communication:

• Slack
• Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Project & Work Management
• Project Management platforms equivalent to Asana, Click-up e.t.c
• Ability to design and enforce workflows, timelines, and accountability structures.

Data, Reporting & BI:

• Business Intelligence tools (e.g. Google Looker Studio, Power BI, Tableau)
• Strong Excel / spreadsheet capability for tracking, analysis, and reporting.

AI & Productivity Tools:

• Practical use of AI tools to improve productivity, documentation, analysis, and decision support
• Comfort experimenting with and embedding AI-enabled workflows.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong execution discipline and prioritisation capability
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations
• High emotional intelligence and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable engaging and constructively challenging senior leaders
• Detail-oriented with a strategic perspective.

Personal Attributes:

• Calm, organised, and outcome-focused
• Proactive, accountable, and reliable
• Trusted and discreet
• Comfortable operating behind the scenes to drive visible results
• Comfortable being hands on within all levels of the organization.

Application Closing Date
20th April, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and cover letter to: chiamaka@jpgramm.com and copy cynthia.onuoha@idyha.com using the Job title as the Subject of the email.