Director, Transformation Office

Position Overview

Albemarle is hiring for a Director, Transformation Office in Charlotte, NC. This hybrid role supports the Chief Transformation Officer and the enterprise transformation office through rigorous program management, executive synthesis, cross‑functional coordination, and value capture.

• Driving transformation performance and value realization across the portfolio.
• Serving as a trusted challenger and thought partner to senior leaders.
• Translating complex performance data into clear executive insights and decisions.

• Serve as a constructive challenger to pillar sponsors, workstream leaders, and initiative owners—stress‑testing assumptions and elevating plans to be more ambitious, executable, and aligned to enterprise value.
• Operate as a senior extension of the Chief Transformation Officer, reinforcing expectations, driving alignment, and selectively intervening to sustain performance momentum across the transformation.
• Drive performance rigor across initiatives by identifying underperformance early, challenging root causes, and ensuring clear actions are defined and owned.
• Coordinate across multiple transformation work streams and functional teams to maintain alignment, sequencing, and delivery discipline.
• Support executive governance processes, leadership reviews, and decision‑making forums with clear recommendations and actionable insights.
• Develop concise executive‑level materials, strategic synthesis, and performance updates for senior leadership.
• Translate complex transformation performance into clear, concise executive narratives that drive decision‑making and alignment.
• Track KPIs, milestones, risks, dependencies, and value capture—ensuring outcomes are credible, measurable and realized (not just reported).
• Escalate risks, gaps, bottlenecks, and underperformance proactively to enable timely intervention and decision‑making.
• Identify and help resolve cross‑functional barriers that could slow delivery or reduce impact.
• Support prioritization and evolution of the transformation portfolio through data‑driven insights, scenario analysis, and clear trade‑off recommendations to leadership.
• Ensure transformation initiatives are delivered against plan with clear visibility to value, risks, and mitigation actions.
• Underperformance is surfaced early, with clear root cause and corrective actions in place.
• Pillar sponsors and initiative owners operate with higher rigor, accountability, and consistency.
• Executive leadership has clear, concise views of performance and key decisions required.
• Cross‑functional bottlenecks are proactively identified and resolved before impacting delivery.
• The transformation office is viewed as a critical driver of performance—not just reporting.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Economics, Operations, or a related field.
• Approximately 6‑10 years of experience in management consulting, transformation, PMO, strategic program leadership, operating model redesign, or enterprise performance improvement roles.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise transformations, cost and productivity programs, operating model redesign, or large‑scale cross‑functional change initiatives.
• Strong executive communication and presentation capabilities, including the ability to synthesize complex information into concise leadership materials and recommendations.
• Proven ability to challenge assumptions constructively, influence senior leaders, and drive accountability without direct line ownership.
• Strong program management discipline with experience tracking KPIs, milestones, risks, dependencies, and value realization across a portfolio of initiatives.

• MBA or other advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience in a top‑tier strategy consulting or transformation advisory environment strongly preferred.
• Approximately 2+ years of post‑MBA consulting experience in transformation, performance improvement, or strategic execution.
• Experience in industrials, chemicals, mining, manufacturing, energy, or energy‑transition sectors.
• Experience working with executive governance processes, transformation offices, enterprise PMOs, or value capture offices.
• Track record of operating effectively in high‑visibility roles that require sound judgment, executive presence, and the ability to create clarity in ambiguous environments.

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.