Business Transformation Director

** Business Transformation Director
**** About the Role
** We are seeking an accomplished Business Transformation Director to lead and drive strategic business transformation initiatives across Panelmatic. This highly visible leadership role is responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the company's Project Management Office (PMO), Stage Gate Process, Project Management standards, business processes, governance frameworks, performance management systems, and digital transformation initiatives.

The Business Transformation Director will serve as the business leader responsible for establishing scalable processes, driving operational excellence, improving project execution discipline, and enabling profitable growth across the organization.

A key responsibility of this role will be the ownership, governance, and continuous improvement of Panelmatic's Stage Gate Process, ensuring all opportunities, proposals, major projects, and strategic initiatives are evaluated, approved, prioritized, and executed through a disciplined and standardized framework.

This leader will manage a small team of PMO professionals, process improvement specialists, and Project Managers while providing strong cross-functional leadership and influence across Commercial, Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Finance, Safety, and Operations.

The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker and execution-focused leader capable of partnering with executive leadership to improve business performance, increase on-time delivery, drive digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, standardize project execution, and enhance project profitability and margins.

This position is based in Houston, Texas, with travel up to 20% as required to support business initiatives, operational reviews, and transformation activities.
** The Opportunity
** This role is ideal for a leader who enjoys transforming organizations, improving business processes, and driving meaningful change.

As Business Transformation Director, you will have the opportunity to influence how the business operates, improve execution across the value chain, enhance customer satisfaction, increase organizational scalability, and establish a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

You will work directly with executive leadership and functional leaders across the organization to identify improvement opportunities, implement strategic initiatives, and establish the processes, systems, tools, governance structures, and performance frameworks required to support the company's continued growth.
** What You'll Do
** Stage Gate Governance & Business Growth
· Own and continuously improve Panelmatic's Stage Gate Process governing business opportunities, strategic pursuits, proposals, project execution, and major business initiatives.
· Lead Stage Gate reviews and executive gate review meetings to ensure opportunities and projects meet commercial, operational, technical, financial, resource, risk, and execution readiness requirements before advancing to the next phase.
· Develop and maintain Stage Gate procedures, governance standards, approval criteria, review requirements, decision-making frameworks, and accountability mechanisms.
· Drive accountability for Stage Gate compliance across Commercial, Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Operations, and Finance.
· Ensure effective risk identification, resource planning, schedule planning, financial evaluation, margin analysis, and execution readiness throughout the Stage Gate lifecycle.
· Partner with executive leadership to improve opportunity selection, project startup readiness, execution discipline,…