Executive, Product & PMO

About Us

SD Guthrie Berhad (SD Guthrie) is one of the world's leading producers of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO), representing approximately 12% of the global market share (as of 31 December 2022). With over 84,000 employees across 12 countries, we pride ourselves on innovation, sustainability, and excellence. Our operations span the entire palm oil value chain, and we are expanding into new business verticals such as green industrial parks and renewable energy. We offer enriching career opportunities supported by cutting-edge technology and a commitment to sustainability. We are the world's first palm oil company to have our net-zero GHG emissions reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).

Join us today, as we continue to Unlock Nature's Superpowers!

Location: SD Guthrie Berhad, Ara Damansara, Selangor

Business Unit: Innovation & Technology

Your Mission

1. Product Discovery & Business Analysis

• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions to identify business challenges, operational inefficiencies, and digital opportunities.
• Gather, analyse, document, and validate business requirements, functional requirements, and user stories.
• Support business process mapping and gap analysis activities to improve operational effectiveness.
• Translate business requirements into structured documentation for solution design and implementation.
• Conduct market, operational, and business research to support product development and project initiatives.

This ensures digital solutions address actual business needs and support value-driven outcomes.

2. Product Delivery & Transformation Execution

• Support end-to-end delivery of digital products and transformation initiatives from discovery through implementation.
• Coordinate activities between business stakeholders, Digital teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Support product roadmap execution and backlog management activities.
• Assist in prioritising business requirements and enhancement requests based on business value and feasibility.
• Participate in prototype reviews, solution demonstrations, and validation activities.
• This improves delivery effectiveness and accelerates realization of business value from digital investments.

3. PMO Governance & Project Coordination

• Maintain project plans, delivery schedules, risks, issues, dependencies, and governance artefacts.
• Track project progress, milestones, budget utilisation, and key performance indicators.
• Prepare project reporting materials, governance dashboards, and management presentations for leadership review.
• Support steering committee, project board, and governance meetings through coordination and reporting activities.
• Ensure adherence to established project governance and delivery standards.
• This strengthens project governance, delivery visibility, and execution discipline across initiatives.

4. User Adoption, Testing & Change Readiness

• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, execution, issue management, and sign-off activities.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and feedback collection throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Support change management, user training, communication, and adoption readiness activities.
• Monitor post-implementation performance and user adoption to support continuous improvement.
• This enables successful transition of solutions into operational use and supports sustainable business ownership.

5. Value Realization & Continuous Improvement

• Support tracking of business benefits, operational improvements, and value realization metrics arising from digital initiatives.
• Assist in identifying opportunities to improve processes, workflows, and stakeholder experience.
• Support preparation of business cases, project papers, budget submissions, and investment justifications.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Product Delivery and PMO methodologies, templates, and practices.
• This ensures digital initiatives achieve measurable operational and business outcomes.

Technical

• Business Analysis & Requirements Engineering
• Business Process Mapping
• Product Discovery & Solution Validation
• Project Coordination & PMO Governance
• Agile Delivery Methodologies
• Budget Planning & Cost Tracking
• UAT Management
• Stakeholder Engagement & Facilitation
• Reporting & Data Analysis
• Digital Transformation Delivery

Ideal Candidates

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline.
• Professional certifications in Project Management, Agile, Scrum, Product Management, Business Analysis, or PMO are advantageous.
• Professional accounting or finance qualifications such as ACCA are an added advantage.

Professional Experience

• Experience supporting digital transformation, business analysis, product delivery, or project management initiatives.
• Experience conducting stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and requirements gathering.
• Experience supporting enterprise system implementation projects.
• Familiarity with digital product lifecycle management and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience using JIRA, Power BI, Microsoft Office Suite, Copilot Studio, and collaboration platforms.

Why Join Us

• Flexible Benefits Coverage
• Learning on Demand
• Employee Wellness Programme
• Employee Engagement Activities
• Fully Subsidised Sports Clubs
• Education Assistance (terms & conditions apply)
• and many more...