Head of Strategic Programs

Head of Strategic Programs (R&Sult Value Creation Program)

Location:

Switzerland | Ireland | Poland | Italy | UA

EGeographic Role Scope:
Europe | Middle East | North Americ

aIndustry: Energy Infrastructure | Power & Distribution Transformers

R&S Group is a fast-growing international industrial company headquartered in Switzerland, powering the future of energy with advanced transformer solutions. We enable reliable, sustainable electricity for data center, battery storage, photovoltaic, renewable, industrial, and infrastructure applications, and large-scale utility customers worldwide. With over 100 years of engineering excellence, we combine precision and quality with speed – scaling our global footprint and shaping the next generation of power distribution.

At R&S, we think and act like entrepreneurs with a clear ambition: to become a globally leading premium provider of power and distribution transformers across key markets. We move fast, take ownership, and turn ambition into impact. If you’re ready to build, innovate, and grow with a company on the rise, this is where it happens. We look forward to meeting you.

We are launching a high-impact, group-wide Value Creation Program – R&Sult – and are looking for a Head of Strategic Programs to lead it end-to-end. This role sits at the heart of our company’s evolution, driving operational and commercial excellence, accelerating innovation, and strengthening performance across our global footprint.

R&Sult is a structured, Board-endorsed program built around a set of clearly defined strategic work streams, designed to deliver impact on top-line growth and EBITDA, while building sustainable capabilities across all business units and factories.

You will take full ownership of this cross-functional program, from translating strategic targets into business unit and factory-level execution, to ensuring disciplined delivery and measurable outcomes. Working within a defined governance structure (Steer Co, BU and factory teams), you will drive alignment, transparency, and accountability across the organization.

This role requires a rare mix of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, engaging with the Board, CEO, and executive leaders while remaining equally credible and effective on the shop floor – connecting strategy with reality and ambition with results.

• Lead and orchestrate the R&Sult program across all strategic work streams, ensuring alignment across business units and factory locations
• Translate top-level strategic targets into actionable plans, driving disciplined execution and measurable impact
• Establish and run the program governance, including Steering Committee alignment, monthly performance reviews, and structured performance tracking and reporting
• Challenge and support stakeholders while acting as a central integrator, ensuring cross-functional collaboration, alignment, and prioritization of initiatives
• Identify and unlock additional value potential, continuously enhancing the program scope and impact (growth, productivity, cost-out), while contributing to the evolution of project and program management practices across the Group
• Act as a trusted partner to senior leadership, providing clear insights and recommendations

• Proven experience leading complex transformation or strategic programs, ideally in industrial or manufacturing environments
• Strong project and program management expertise, ideally with exposure to international standards (e.g., PMI, PRINCE2)
• Track record in delivering measurable business impact (e.g., operational excellence, cost-out, growth initiatives)
• Expertise leading organizational change management initiatives, embedding sustainable behavioral and process change across diverse teams and regions
• Strong interpersonal skills, with credibility from shop floor to executive level
• Proven ability to lead through influence in a functional organization, aligning stakeholders across levels and regions
• Hands‑on, execution-focused leader with strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities
• Familiarity with modern PM tools, ideally including
• Ambition to grow into broader business leadership…