Director, Business Transformation

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Execute partnership with executive and functional leadership to help define, prioritize, and execute the company's enterprise transformation roadmap.
• Translate strategic priorities into clearly defined initiatives with measurable objectives, milestones, ownership, resource requirements, and expected financial or operational benefits.
• Evaluate and prioritize transformation opportunities based on strategic importance, financial impact, organizational capacity, and execution risk.
• Drive initiatives from initial opportunity identification and business case development through implementation and benefit realization.
• Maintain visibility across the overall transformation portfolio and help leadership allocate resources to the highest-value opportunities.

Cross-Functional Process Improvement

• Partner with leaders across Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, Technology, and other functions to identify and eliminate process inefficiencies.
• Lead structured assessments of business processes, organizational handoffs, systems, data, and workflows to identify opportunities for simplification and improvement.
• Facilitate cross-functional teams to redesign processes, clarify accountability, eliminate unnecessary work, and improve speed and execution.
• Apply continuous improvement, Lean, root-cause analysis, and other structured problem-solving methodologies where appropriate.
• Develop solutions that balance process improvement, technology enablement, organizational capability, and practical implementation requirements.

Program & Project Leadership

• Establish disciplined governance for major transformation programs, including project plans, milestones, ownership, decision rights, and reporting.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple business functions, locations, and stakeholders.
• Develop clear workplans and maintain accountability for deliverables, timelines, and business outcomes.
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and barriers to execution and work with leadership to resolve them.
• Provide concise, fact-based reporting to executive leadership on progress, financial impact, risks, and decisions required.
• Build repeatable project and transformation-management disciplines that can be leveraged across the organization.

Performance Management & Value Creation

• Develop practical KPIs, dashboards, and performance-management tools that provide visibility into transformation progress and business performance.
• Establish baselines, targets, and benefit-tracking methodologies for transformation initiatives.
• Partner with Finance and functional leaders to validate and track value creation, including: Cost savings and cost avoidance, Productivity improvements, Margin expansion, Service and customer-performance improvements, Working-capital improvements, Capacity and throughput improvements.
• Ensure benefits are measurable, financially grounded, and sustainable.
• Identify performance gaps and work with initiative owners to develop corrective actions.

M&A Integration & Synergy Realization

• Partner with executive leadership and functional teams to plan and execute the integration of acquired businesses into Lyons Magnus.
• Develop and manage comprehensive integration plans covering key functional workstreams, milestones, dependencies, risks, and ownership.
• Establish integration governance, including workstream leadership, reporting cadence, decision-making processes, and executive-level progress reporting.
• Translate acquisition assumptions and identified opportunities into executable synergy initiatives with clear owners, timing, investment requirements, and financial targets.
• Partner with Finance and functional leaders to establish synergy baselines and track realized benefits against acquisition and integration objectives.
• Coordinate cross-functional integration activities across areas such as Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, Technology, Human Resources, Procurement, and other corporate functions.
• Identify opportunities to leverage Lyons Magnus capabilities, scale, systems, manufacturing network, supply chain, and organizational resources across acquired businesses.
• Balance the pace of integration with the need to maintain business continuity, customer service, employee engagement, and the performance of the acquired business.
• Identify integration risks and barriers early and escalate issues requiring executive decisions.
• Support post-integration reviews to capture lessons learned and continuously improve Lyons Magnus's M&A integration capabilities and playbook.

Change Management & Organizational Adoption

• Build alignment among executive leadership, functional leaders, and frontline teams around transformation priorities and expected outcomes.
• Clearly communicate the rationale for change, expected benefits, implementation approach, and individual responsibilities.
• Identify organizational and behavioral barriers that could prevent successful implementation.
• Develop practical change-management and communication plans appropriate to the scale and complexity of each initiative.
• Ensure new processes, systems, tools, and ways of working are effectively implemented, adopted, and sustained.
• Help build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and fact-based decision-making.