Lead Transformation Manager

Are you an experienced transformation leader who knows how to turn operational challenges into measurable business impact? Someone who can move comfortably from the boardroom to the shop floor, challenge established thinking and mobilise teams to deliver lasting change?

As Lead Transformation Manager
, you will play a key role in the Trivium Business System (TBS) and our Operational Excellence programme. Your mission is clear:
create step-change improvements in operational performance and translate them into measurable EBITDA impact.

This is not a traditional continuous improvement role. You will work alongside senior Operations leaders, Plant Managers and multidisciplinary teams to define transformation ambitions, identify value opportunities and turn them into concrete, sustainable results across our manufacturing network.

You will join a small team of 5–6 senior transformation leaders
, working collaboratively across Europe or the Americas. The role involves significant international exposure and typically requires up to 80% travel within your region
.

You will lead plant-level transformations designed to improve performance and deliver significant financial value.

Your focus will include:

• Improving OEE, productivity and reducing spoilage and waste
• Optimising maintenance, supply chain, quality and other key cost drivers
• Identifying performance gaps through data-driven diagnostics and structured shop-floor observations
• Translating operational improvement into measurable P&L and EBITDA impact
• Building bottom-up improvement plans with clear ownership at plant level
• Embedding the structures, capabilities and behaviours required to sustain continuous improvement

Each Lead Transformation Manager is expected to enable transformation initiatives with the potential to deliver USD 10–20 million EBITDA impact annually
.

You will take ownership of the full transformation journey:

• Partner with senior Operations leaders to define plant strategy, ambition and value targets
• Lead hypothesis-driven diagnostics using data analysis, observations, workshops, simulations and interviews
• Identify ambitious but achievable improvement opportunities, particularly those requiring limited investment or offering rapid payback
• Mobilise multidisciplinary teams and drive implementation
• Connect operational initiatives with key performance indicators and financial results
• Establish governance and interventions that ensure improvements are delivered and sustained

Transformation only works when people own it. A major part of your role will therefore be to develop leaders and teams across the organisation.

You will:

• Coach Plant Managers, plant leadership teams, Continuous Improvement specialists and Transformation Managers
• Lead and develop transformation teams through matrix leadership
• Deliver hands‑on coaching and capability‑building, including Lean and Six Sigma methodologies
• Help operational leaders strengthen their approach to performance management and continuous improvement
• Build trust, challenge constructively and create commitment to new ways of working

You will help further develop and apply the Operational Excellence pillar of the Trivium Business System, drawing on leading practices across manufacturing, quality, maintenance, supply chain, organisation and performance management.

Beyond applying proven approaches, we want you to challenge them.

You will explore how emerging technologies and methodologies such as agentic AI, advanced analytics, digital twins, simulation, robotics, process mining and systems thinking can unlock the next…