SVP, Business Operation

Position Overview

The SVP Business Operation, CEO Office works directly with the CEO to drive, coordinate, monitor, and follow up on key business operations, strategic initiatives, and critical projects across the organization.

This role serves as the CEO's key coordination point, ensuring that management decisions and strategic priorities are translated into clear actions, effectively executed, and delivered within agreed timelines.

The position works closely with senior management and cross-functional teams to track business and project performance, resolve critical issues, drive accountability, and ensure alignment across business units and functions.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in business operations, project execution, and cross-functional management, with excellent stakeholder management, influencing, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the CEO to drive and follow up on key business priorities, strategic initiatives, and critical projects across the organization.
• Monitor and coordinate all key projects and business initiatives assigned or prioritized by the CEO.
• Translate CEO and management decisions into clear actions, accountable owners, deliverables, and timelines.
• Follow up on action items, commitments, milestones, and decisions with business units and functional leaders.
• Monitor project and operational performance against agreed scope, schedule, budget, deliverables, and key milestones.
• Coordinate across Business Units, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Management, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Operations, HR, and other relevant functions.
• Identify delays, bottlenecks, dependencies, operational issues, and critical risks, and proactively drive stakeholders toward resolution.
• Provide the CEO with concise and accurate business and project updates, key issues, risks, recommendations, and decisions required.
• Facilitate executive and cross-functional meetings, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, deadlines, and follow-up actions.
• Drive stakeholders and project owners to deliver agreed commitments while maintaining effective working relationships.
• Coordinate with senior management, project teams, business partners, contractors, consultants, and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Support special projects, business transformation, operational improvement, new business initiatives, and other strategic assignments as directed by the CEO.
• Prepare executive-level business dashboards, project progress reports, management presentations, and decision-support materials.
• Escalate critical issues requiring CEO attention in a timely manner, with clear analysis, options, and recommended actions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or related fields.
• Minimum 12–15 years of experience in business operations, project management, engineering, infrastructure, energy, EPC, or other complex project-driven businesses.
• Proven experience in driving and coordinating multiple complex projects and business initiatives simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of business operations, project execution, financial and commercial considerations, and organizational processes.
• Experience in Renewable Energy, Power, Infrastructure, and/or EPC businesses is highly preferred.
• Strong project management, business analysis, problem-solving, and execution capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with C-level executives, senior management, and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to challenge, influence, follow up, and drive stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong ability to identify critical issues, connect cross-functional dependencies, and translate complex information into clear recommendations.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills in Thai and English.
• Highly organized, proactive, hands-on, result-oriented, and comfortable working directly with the CEO in a fast-paced environment.

Must-Have Experience

• Proven hands-on experience in Construction and EPC projects.
• Direct project experience in both Solar and Wind energy projects.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end EPC project lifecycle, from engineering and procurement through construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Demonstrated experience in driving large-scale and complex projects, coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders to achieve project milestones.