Manager, Business Transformation

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to develop and execute strategic, commercial, operational, organizational and financial initiatives.
• Support strategic planning; synthesize input and recommend BU strategy, aligned with corporate strategy; support development and alignment of functional strategies, goals and objectives.
• Maintain and update the strategic plan; incorporate new market and organizational insights.
• Prepare updates and insights for monthly meetings and reports, board meetings or other as required.
• Support design and drive completion of critical initiatives in alignment with the business strategy/plan; provide analytical/problem solving support and guidance to the wider organization and transformation team, including project leadership and management; ensure things get done.
• Partner with Finance to ensure all critical financial plan parameters are transparent.
• Work closely with leaders and shareholders; create transparency and visibility by tracking processes and data; enable better and faster decision making, and results predictability.
• Act as the face of transformation, set the tone, spur enthusiasm; challenge current wisdom and support the team; help leaders accelerate execution; provide structure and consistency to internal discussions.
• Orchestrate complex processes that involve a large number of discrete tasks; coordinate cross-functional initiatives.
• Validate all efforts/initiatives with facts, data and independent analysis; provide valued processes and tools.
• Act as a role model – encourage and imbed behaviors required for change.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related; Master's or MBA degree preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in global manufacturing, distribution and/or services business with energy & industrial manufacturing industries preferred.
• 1-2+ years of experience in consulting firms such as AlixPartners, Kearney and/or Ronald Berger strongly desired.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time both domestic & international.
• Strong business and financial acumen; ability to produce clear analysis, documents, presentations, and plans.
• Track record building relationships with and receiving support from management; ability to manage a broad range of stakeholders.
• Experience navigating in challenging/turbulent times; ability to manage ambiguity; org savvy; ability to work across a diverse and complex global company.
• Able to influence important internal and external stakeholders.
• Strategic planning process management/facilitation experience.
• Ability to engage people around data and in how to develop it.
• High emotional intelligence; strong interpersonal skills.
• Organized, naturally motivated and driven to success.