Director Transformation Productivity

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Salary Range: $151,300 - $211,800 Annual Bonus Eligibility Comprehensive Benefits Package 401k & Company Match The posted salary range reflects the range the Company reasonably expects to pay for this position. Actual starting salary will be determined based on internal pay equity to promote consistency and fairness across comparable roles, while also considering the candidate’s relevant experience and qualifications.

Position Summary:

The Director, Transformation – Productivity serves as a strategic transformation partner to executive leaders, workstream leaders, and functional teams across Manufacturing, Logistics, and Procurement. The role is accountable for accelerating the identification, development, execution, and realization of productivity initiatives that deliver measurable improvements in cost, operational performance, service, capacity, and margin. This position provides leadership to Transformation Managers and analysts supporting the Productivity portfolio and acts as the central integrator across work streams, Finance, ePMO, functional leaders, and initiative owners.

The Director ensures that priorities are clearly defined, initiatives are execution-ready, dependencies and capacity constraints are surfaced, and performance risks are addressed before value is compromised. The role combines strategic thinking, operational and financial acumen, portfolio governance, data-driven problem solving, and people leadership. Success requires the ability to move teams from reporting issues to owning actions, decisions, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

• Productivity Strategy and Portfolio Leadership Partner with senior functional and workstream leaders to translate enterprise productivity priorities into actionable transformation roadmaps and value delivery plans.
• Oversee the transformation portfolio across Manufacturing, Logistics, and Procurement, ensuring alignment with enterprise financial objectives, the Bankable Plan, operational priorities, and longer-term productivity ambitions.
• Maintain a clear understanding of the highest-value initiatives, key drivers of portfolio performance, critical dependencies, and initiatives at risk.
• Lead enterprise-level gap analyses to identify cost, capacity, service, process, technology, and organizational opportunities.
• Facilitate ideation and opportunity-development sessions to build a sustainable pipeline of productivity initiatives.
• Challenge teams to identify acceleration opportunities, alternative solutions, and additional sources of value.
• Support integrated sequencing across productivity and growth portfolios by identifying resource conflicts, operational dependencies, technology requirements, capital needs, and timing constraints.
• Value Delivery and Execution Discipline Drive initiatives from opportunity identification and business-case development through implementation, stabilization, and value realization.
• Ensure initiatives have clearly defined scope, accountable owners, measurable value, realistic milestones, committed resources, dependencies, and…