Senior Director, Future State Design - Positioning+

About the Role

As the program leader for the future divisional design of the Positioning Division Group, you will serve as the central strategic integrator responsible for shaping and operationalizing the next-state structure of the business. This highly cross-functional, global role requires orchestration across multiple leadership teams, sites, and disciplines. You will ensure every design decision is tested across interdependencies and translated into an executable program that moves the organization from current state to future state with clarity, pace, and discipline.

A core principle of this role is to act on behalf of all Positioning Presidents and lead with enterprise perspective, strong governance, and disciplined execution. You will be accountable not only for designing the future state but also for ensuring it is actioned successfully—including transition planning, leadership alignment, implementation governance, and the orderly handover to the future steady-state operating model.

Responsibilities

Strategy, Design, and Program Leadership

• Lead the overall design and orchestration of the future divisional model for the Positioning Division Group, including governance, sequencing, interdependencies, and executive decision pathways.
• Own the integrated master program plan, ensuring all functional workstreams align to a shared target state and are delivered against a coherent implementation roadmap.
• Act as the central point of integration across commercial, product, finance, legal, tax, people, systems, and communications to ensure decisions are deliberate, connected, and enterprise-ready.
• Maintain the single source of truth for the future divisional design and ensure leadership alignment on priorities, risks, trade-offs, and implementation decisions.

Future State Design Across Critical Dimensions

The role is accountable for ensuring every major dimension of the current organization is mapped, tested, and redesigned into a practical future-state model. This includes validating the current baseline, facilitating future-state choices, identifying cross-functional dependencies, and ensuring each dimension progresses through to implementation.

• Cross Divisional Selling
  • Current State: Unclear ownership between distribution and entrepreneurial/direct models, channel conflict, and unresolved commission/pricing/margin rules across the four divisions.
  • Future State: Defined account ownership rules, channel conflict resolution process, unified pricing governance, cross-division commission/crediting/margin model, deal desk for live disputes.
• Go-to-Market
  • Current State: Customer/segment ownership, channel mix, brand architecture, sales coverage by geography.
  • Future State: Target customer alignment, channel rationalization, brand/portfolio mapping to new divisional lines.
• Product & R&D
  • Current State: Roadmap ownership, lab/site footprint, platform vs. product team structures.
  • Future State: R&D operating model, site consolidation or retention, platform governance, dual-use IP boundaries.
• Intellectual Property
  • Current State: Patent/trademark ownership by entity, licensing-in/out arrangements, shared IP.
  • Future State: IP separation or co-ownership plan, licensing agreements, freedom-to-operate review.
• Tax & Legal Entity
  • Current State: Legal entity map, transfer pricing, jurisdictional footprint (US, Canada, UK, Belgium).
  • Future State: Target entity structure, tax-efficient transition steps, treaty and cross-border implications.
• People & Talent
  • Current State: Org charts, headcount by site/function, dual-hatted roles, key talent at risk.
  • Future State: Future org design, role mapping, retention plan for critical talent, leadership selection.
• Balance Sheet & Finance
  • Current State: Asset/liability allocation, shared services costs, capital structure by division.
  • Future State: Opening balance sheet design, cost allocation methodology, standalone financial reporting readiness.
• Systems & Data
  • Current State: ERP/IT landscape, data ownership, shared platforms across divisions.
  • Future State: System separation or integration plan, data migration approach, cybersecurity boundary review.
• Communications & Change
  • Current State: Stakeholder map, prior announcements, employee/investor sentiment baseline.
  • Future State: Communication plan by audience, change management cadence, narrative alignment with leadership.
• Governance & Controls
  • Current State: Decision rights, delegation of authority, board/committee structures.
  • Future State: New governance model, interim controls during transition, RACI for program decisions.

Qualifications

Experience

• Extensive experience leading large-scale, cross-functional organization design, carve-out, integration, or divisional transformation programs within complex, multinational environments.
• Demonstrated ability to operate credibly across finance, tax, legal, HR, R&D, commercial, and communications functions while integrating them into a single program architecture.
• Track record of executive-facing program leadership, including regular engagement with CFO, President, Executive Committee, or Board-level stakeholders.
• Experience operating across North American and European jurisdictions, with appreciation for the regulatory, tax, labor, and governance implications of multi-country organizational design.
• Key design dimensions include go-to-market, product and R&D, intellectual property, tax and legal entity structure, people and organization, finance and balance sheet design, systems and data, communications, and governance and controls.

Leadership Capabilities

• Strategic and systems-oriented thinker, able to hold a multi-dimensional future-state design in view while driving disciplined execution.
• Strong leadership presence and influence skills, with the ability to align senior stakeholders without relying on direct line authority.
• Exceptional program management discipline, with the ability to build structure, pace, and accountability across highly interdependent workstreams.
• Executive-level communication and storytelling capability, with the ability to translate complexity into clear decisions, actions, and stakeholder messages.
• Resilient, pragmatic, and comfortable operating in ambiguity while maintaining momentum and governance discipline.

Education & Logistics

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business, Strategy, Law, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree advantageous.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly across California, Calgary, Aberdeen, and Leuven for the duration of the program.
• Flexibility to work across North American and European time zones.