Culture Transformation & Facilitation Manager | Sonae
Culture Transformation & Facilitation Manager | Sonae

To join our Transformation Team at the Holding Office, we are currently looking for a:
Culture Transformation & Facilitation Manager
Purpose of the role
Support the design and continuous evolution of a group-wide cultural transformation journey, with a strong focus on facilitating leadership and team development experiences across the Group.
This person will combine expertise in organizational culture, leadership development and people transformation with strong facilitation capabilities, translating cultural ambitions into concrete experiences, conversations and practices.
A significant part of the role will involve preparing and facilitating in-person leadership journeys and transformation sessions across different geographies and businesses, helping leaders and teams reflect, experiment and embed new behaviours.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, prepare and facilitate leadership and team development journeys, workshops and transformation sessions across the Group.
- Facilitate conversations with leadership teams, creating the conditions for reflection, challenge, alignment and behavioural change.
- Adapt facilitation approaches and methodologies to different audiences, seniority levels and business contexts.
- Co-design and continuously refine the cultural transformation roadmap, identifying the core experiences, concepts and behaviours that need to be nurtured.
- Translate cultural models and frameworks into practical exercises, tools and facilitated experiences that teams can apply in their day-to-day.
- Design and implement group-wide initiatives, including leadership journeys, internal academy experiences, onboarding moments, internal talks, rituals and other engagement formats.
- Work closely with business units to co-create local adaptations of group-wide initiatives.
- Prepare facilitation materials, session flows and methodologies and coordinate all necessary preparation with internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify and coordinate external partners, facilitators and content experts when needed.
- Create feedback loops and learning cycles to continuously improve the experiences delivered.
- Act as a thought partner to the Head of Transformation, contributing with methodology, inspiration and critical thinking.
- Travel regularly across the Group’s locations to prepare and deliver leadership journeys and other in-person development experiences.
Ideal Profile
- Background in Organizational Development, Psychology, Human Resources or similar.
- Experience in cultural transformation, leadership development or large-scale people development programmes.
- Strong hands-on facilitation experience, ideally with leadership teams and senior audiences.
- Ability to facilitate complex conversations, reflection and group dynamics, creating engagement while also challenging participants when needed.
- Experience in designing and delivering workshops, leadership journeys and immersive learning experiences.
- Confidence facilitating both structured programmes and more ambiguous, emergent conversations.
- Former consultant or experience in a consulting/facilitation environment is valued.
- Solid grounding in change management principles.
- Strong communication, presence and stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building from scratch.
- Collaborative, pragmatic and hands-on.
- High availability to travel, as leadership journeys typically involve two-day sessions and additional preparation time on location.
Work Location
- Porto. Hybrid mode (following the company policy: 3 days at the office).
- This role involves frequent travel, as a significant part of the work is delivered in person across different Group companies and locations.