Sr. Director, Transformation & Corporate Development

About the role

The Sr. Director, Transformation & Corporate Development, will be a senior member of the Value Creation Office (VCO) at Propelis, a private equity-backed global packaging and creative services holding company formed in 2025 through the merger of SGS & Co and SGK Brand Solutions.

Essential Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Lead multiple VCO projects and workstreams end-to-end, owning scope, schedule, budget, team resourcing, and outcomes from initiative design through stage-gate close-out and value realization;

• Oversee and ensure integrity of labor synergy and headcount tracking across the program master roster, including monthly reconciliation of HR (UltiPro) and finance data sources, Synergy ID assignment, and resolution of new-hire and exit discrepancies across the LoBs;

• Lead the design, planning, and execution of integration and transformation workstreams — including TSA management — aligned to Propelis’ synergy capture targets, driving progress through the VCO’s structured stage-gate process (L0-L5), monitoring KPIs, financial impacts, risks, and issues, and making escalation decisions with clear rationale;

• Author and own executive-level materials for SteerCo, Board, and ELT reviews, including strategic narratives, financial summaries, and decision documents; advise on how critical communications should be structured and ensure all deliverables meet executive presentation standards;

• Build, own, and refine advanced financial models, business cases, and variance analyses that serve as primary inputs to executive decision-making, synergy tracking, and the financial outlook cadence (budgeting, forecasting); develop new valuation methodologies and analytical frameworks as needed;

• Drive Corporate Development workstreams in partnership with senior VCO leadership, including target screening and pipeline management, commercial and financial diligence, synergy modeling, target operating model design, and Day 1 / Day 100 integration planning; present findings and recommendations to executive stakeholders;

• Lead workstreams within the VCO’s commercial intelligence initiative (Project Oculus), including development of the revenue event taxonomy, product identifier data architecture, and forward demand models that connect packaging event signals to bottoms-up forecasting, capacity planning, and whitespace analysis;

• Proactively identify, scope, and prioritize enterprise-level risks across assigned portfolios; develop mitigation strategies and ensure cross-functional alignment to protect business continuity and synergy commitments;

• Lead, mentor, and develop direct reports and project team members; provide coaching on analytical rigor, executive communication, stakeholder management, and career development; build the VCO talent pipeline and foster a high-performance team culture;

Competency Requirements

• Collaborative leadership, strong accountability, and clarity in communication; able to foster team environments across organizational lines within project teams
• Prominent problem-solving skills with the ability to lead teams and the broader VCO organization in solving complex problems, develop substantive insights, balance competing priorities, and recommend trade-offs with clear rationale
• Distinguished financial modeling capabilities, including the ability to build complex, multi-scenario models from scratch, develop new valuation methodologies, and translate financial analysis into executive-level strategic recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to develop direct and indirect reports; effective coach who sees project teams as an extension of themselves and communicates effectively up and down the organization
• Strong interpersonal skills and executive presence; advises on how critical communications should be structured and is relied upon to land mission-critical, complex ideas; mastery of written communications and deliverables across all audience types
• Strategic thinker who goes beyond analysis to interpret implications and make actionable recommendations linked to the business “big picture” and enterprise value creation
• Execution mindset with strong strategic thinking, collaboration and influence, adaptability in change, and results orientation
• Deep expertise in designing engagements that are logical and comprehensive; strong competency in building project teams and models; conveys how workstreams support overall objectives
• Ability to define problems, collect data from multiple sources, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; develops new methodologies and infuses new thinking into existing frameworks
• Excellent computer skills — MS Excel (advanced), MS Word, MS PowerPoint

About Propelis

Propelis is a portfolio of global marketing services and technology companies with a combined legacy of 150+ years, 2,000+ clients, 9,000 employees, and operations across 30 countries. Propelis provides the scale and support of a global organization while preserving the unique culture and identity of each company in its portfolio.

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