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DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.\nWork Arrangement: This position is categorized as hybrid on MID SHIFT. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the GM Philippines office three times per week (or other frequency) as dictated by the business.\nThe Role\nThe Manager, GBS Transformations CoE - Philippines is the senior local leader for GM’s Philippines based GBS Transformation organization. The role provides strategic and operational leadership across a highly matrixed portfolio that includes transformation program support, testing management, business services, reporting, and related vendor or contingent-worker capabilities.\nThis leader manages direct teams and provides indirect or dotted-line leadership for a broader Philippines population, currently representing approximately 50+ employees and contingent resources across multiple transformation pillars. This role directly reports to the Sr. Transformation Manager in the USA and partners with other leaders in the Philippines. The role establishes the local operating rhythm, aligns Manila delivery with global functional priorities, and ensures that people, processes, governance, and performance measures support reliable transformation outcomes.\nThe position partners closely with U.S. transformation leaders, global process owners, GBS site leadership, HR, Finance, vendors, and business stakeholders. The role is expected to balance day-to-day operational stewardship with longer-term capability building, including workforce planning, migration readiness, automation and AI adoption, continuous improvement, and succession planning.\nWhat You'll Do\nTest Management COE\nDirectly manage a team of 14 direct reports and 20+ contingent workers supporting the transformation program.\nProvide leadership oversight for testing management, business services, reporting, and other transformation-support capabilities located in the Philippines.\nOperate and oversee planning, design, execution, and reporting of tests to ensure that software meets quality standards and is free from errors or defects.\nStrengthen delivery and value realization across internal teams, centralized testing teams, and external partners such as contingent worker.\nSupport planning for testing capacity, project coverage, quality, deployment readiness, hypercare, and continuous improvement.\nEstablish goals for the testing team and assess the team’s progress against the goals.\nWorkforce planning, hiring, and talent development\nLead or support the end-to-end local hiring process, including coordination with HR, screening, interviews, selection, onboarding, and transition to functional training.\nDevelop managers and individual contributors through coaching, career planning, performance management, succession planning, and cross-training.\nMaintain clear distinctions between HR orientation, GBST orientation, functional onboarding, and role-specific certification or training.\nPromote a culture of accountability, inclusion, continuous learning, and shared ownership across direct and indirect teams.\nFinancial, vendor, and resource management\nPartner with Finance and global functional leaders to plan and manage budgets, costs, resource allocations, and financial controls for Philippines operations.\nMonitor vendor and contingent-worker performance, deliverables, staffing, service quality, and compliance with agreed expectations.\nEnsure that resource and expense information is accurate, timely, and suitable for leadership review.\nChange, innovation, and continuous improvement\nChampion adoption of automation, analytics, and AI-enabled ways of working that improve efficiency, quality, insight, and employee experience.\nEvaluate opportunities for AI-assisted testing, reporting, workflow automation, and operational decision support in partnership with global capability owners.\nCommunications, engagement, and site leadership\nServe as a trusted connector between global transformation leaders and Philippines-based employees and partners.\nDeliver clear, timely, and inclusive communications on strategy, priorities, organizational changes, operating expectations, and business results.\nLead engagement activities that strengthen connection, retention, collaboration, and culture across a geographically distributed organization.\nRepresent GBS Transformations in Philippines site forums and collaborate with other site leaders on shared priorities, events, and local operations.\nYour Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)\nRelevant bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, information systems, engineering, operations, or a related discipline.\nTypically 10+ years of relevant progressive experience in shared services, global business services, transformation, operations, program management, consulting, finance, technology, or a related field.\nTesting management, software quality, deployment readiness, reporting, analytics, or business-services experience.\nDemonstrated experience leading and developing teams in a global, matrixed, or CoE environment.\nExperience delivering transformation or operational programs, migrations, or operating-model changes.\nExperience managing workforce plans, budgets, vendors, performance measures, and risks.\nStrong stakeholder leadership and communication across functions and geographies.\nWillingness to work with global teams and support business needs across U.S. and Philippines time zones.\nDemonstrated experience managing through influence across multiple functions, geographies, reporting lines, and external partners.\nExperience with testing, reporting, analytics, business services, or transformation delivery is strongly preferred.\nAffinity with technology and/or familiarity with analytics tools and techniques\nHighly motivated and willing to learn and take on new challenges.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills\nWhat Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)\nExperience with automation, analytics, AI, or tools such as JIRA and testing platforms.\nAdvanced degree or relevant certification.\n\nAbout GM\nOur vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.\nWhy Join Us\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visitHow we Hire.\nAccommodations\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. 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