Director, Digital Transformation Project

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Baseline the current state of initiatives and governance
• Understand the current stage of identified initiatives (e.g., concept phase, planned, in-flight)
• Take inventory of information pertaining to initiative charter, team membership, scope including business processes and systems, initiative plan, governance, KPI, and value case
• Audit key challenges facing initiatives and develop mitigations
• Identify new initiatives and develop a roadmap
• Identify pain points and initiatives based on stakeholder discussions / interviews and existing assessments of end-to-end enterprise capabilities, processes, and systems
• Prioritize and sequence initiatives, identify dependencies, and develop a transformation roadmap
• Develop details for initiatives, identify resource and investment requirements, and develop a value case to establish an executable roadmap
• Execute initiatives following project management standards
• Define and execute a structured approach to managing initiatives leveraging existing ways of working, templates, and guidelines as appropriate
• Relaunch or launch initiatives, ensuring project resource alignment and plan task details
• Execute project phases, ensure improvements are implemented, and validate achievement or line of sight to achievement of value case
• Prioritize and manage issues that arise in a prioritized and exception-based manner
• Selectively “roll up the sleeves” and help teams overcome high priority initiatives
• Continuously refine and update initiative charters and plans using the appropriate change management controls
• Continuously develop and refine program management techniques
• Provide thought leadership by leveraging experience in manufacturing and supply chain
• Provide expertise in manufacturing and supply chain during the initiative definition, planning, and roadmapping phase
• Provide expertise in manufacturing and supply chain in the execution of initiatives
• Collect and provide initiative data and information for management review
• Provide initiative status details per standards that enable clear project status communications
• Work with initiative owners to update initiative details – timelines, resources, financial / operational success criteria and outcomes
• Schedule, prepare and deliver initiative reviews for stakeholders at key initiative milestones
• Maintain initiative details, status and prescribed documents in shared repository

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven program management track record including experience with large scale, cross-enterprise programs spanning business process and technology transformation
• Strong experience and functional knowledge of manufacturing and supply chain, in addition to familiarity with sales and account operations, product development, services, and corporate functions
• Rigorous strategic and analytical thinking skills, with the ability to distill complex data and dynamics into actionable recommendations
• Strong senior presence and communication skills, with the ability to influence initiative stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills with the ability to work effectively across functions and cultures
• Proven ability to drive alignment, manage cross-functional initiatives, and ensure disciplined execution of top priorities
• Strong financial acumen with proven ability to build and evaluate detailed value cases and models
• High degree of adaptability, intellectual curiosity, and entrepreneurial mindset, with a passion for technology and innovation

Education Requirement

• Minimum of BA or BS degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, or related field required
• MBA or other advanced degree preferred
• PMP certification or commensurate experience required (10+years managing projects and programs)