Chief Transformation Officer - B2B Manufacturing​/Supply Chain

Overview

As the Chief Transformation Officer, you will serve as a strategic business partner and trusted advisor to the CEO, Executive Committee Team and Board of Directors. You will work closely with the leadership team in realizing its near-term strategic priorities and long-term strategic goals, while operating as a steward of the culture and fostering an environment of collaboration and enterprise thinking.

As the Chief Transformation Officer, you will lead all aspects of our global transformation, working closely with senior leaders across the business to understand and identify areas of opportunity, develop the overall transformation strategy and roadmap, and drive successful implementation. You will deliver expert-level consulting across key strategic areas, including operational efficiency and growth initiatives, global technology/systems/platform implementations, product strategy, and operating model design.

You will manage the overall Transformation implementation with a defined dashboard and developed KPI’s clearly measuring progress and operational improvements.

This individual will be charged with delivering an agile Transformational agenda that keeps pace with the growth of the business and champions better ways to improve CLIENT’s operations and business performance. Overall, as the top transformation strategist for the organization, you will be responsible for upgrading the technology platform to deliver seamless, scalable, world-class technology/information system with real time data enabling enhanced business decision making.

This individual will galvanize the team, create and build a unified high-performance culture and be a change champion for a successful transformational journey.

This leader will be a broadly experienced Business Operations leader, who has a track record for successfully transforming and elevating global businesses in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where everyone rolls up their sleeves. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader who is execution oriented. She/he will be a business-oriented leader who can serve as a true partner to the CEO and EC, with perspectives and strong global knowledge of manufacturing/supply chain and distribution businesses.

This authentic leader should be energized by the mission, as well as motivated to be part of an organization that is forward-thinking and progressive, while also being sensitive to the traditional aspects of the company that need to evolve.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys toggling between strategic and tactics; is as comfortable in the Board room as they are drawing from deep function experience to develop and execute d-t-d programs and is willing to step in to voids without hesitation. We’re looking for someone who is:

• Visionary and Realistic
• Strategic and Execution-Oriented
• Scrappy and Sophisticated
• Courageous and Comported
• Gravitas and Humility

THE POSITION

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Consult with EC, the Board of Directors and senior leaders across Client to develop and manage the company’s overall transformation strategy and roadmap, spanning global people, processes, and technology programs
• Business Process Transformation:
  Identify and streamline/simplify operational processes, workflows and systems to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Productivity Optimization:
  Identify and analyze cost-saving and productivity opportunities, perform data analysis to determine ROI and lead initiatives to realize improvements
• Performance Metric Tracking:
  Establish key performance indicators and measurement systems to track progress and efficacy of projects and continued operations
• Organizational Design Alignment:
  Simplify and optimize organizational structure with business strategy to deliver efficiently and cost effectively across global functions
• Culture:
  Drive culture and purpose of the organization, ensuring an engaged and motivated team members
• Business Insights/Analytics:
  Design and implement real time reporting and dashboards to provide insights and analytics for leaders to make timely critical decisions and identify areas of opportunity. Build enhanced processes that deliver improved forecast…