VP, Transformation Management Office (TMO)
About the role
The Vice President, Transformation Management Office (TMO) will lead enterprise-wide transformation across People & Culture’s most strategic initiatives. This role serves as the organization’s transformation “mission control,” ensuring complex, cross-functional work is aligned, sequenced, and executed to deliver measurable business impact.
Key responsibilities
Enterprise Transformation Leadership
- Design, launch, and run the TMO as the enterprise hub for transformation work
- Align and integrate initiatives across the enterprise to ensure clear prioritization and effective sequencing
- Set the cadence, decision rights, escalation paths, and forums that keep work moving
- Bring more agile, scalable transformation practices beyond traditional governance
- Bring external market perspective on transformation, AI, and evolving operating models
Portfolio & Program Management
- Turn strategic priorities into clear workplans with owners, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes
- Spot risks and duplication early, then push for practical mitigation
- Build integrated roadmaps that show progress, risks, tradeoffs, and where leadership action is needed
- Facilitate executive tradeoff decisions across funding, scope, and resources
Governance & Executive Decision Support
- Design and lead governance forums with the right agenda, materials and decision context
- Drive alignment on priorities, sequencing, tradeoffs, and required action
- Keep discussions focused on choices, risks, value and accountability, not status updates
Organizational Adoption
- Evolve operating models, AI-enabled ways of working, and leadership behaviors
- Build adoption through stakeholder engagement, communications planning, readiness checkpoints, feedback loops and change management strategies
- Foster a culture of prioritization, accountability, and enterprise thinking
Value Realization & Execution
- Define value clearly, then track business impact, adoption, ROI, and benefits realization
- Use progress reviews, course corrections, and decision checkpoints to maintain momentum
- Put the tools, dashboards, and frameworks in place to track progress, adoption, benefits, and risks
Stakeholder Partnership
- Partner with senior leaders across HR, Workforce Technology, Finance, Operations, and Corporate Functions
- Act as a trusted advisor to transformation sponsors and executive stakeholders
- Use structured stakeholder engagement, working sessions and executive pre-briefs to clarify ownership, resolve dependencies and build alignment before formal decision points.
- Collaborate with external consulting partners, vendors, and implementation teams
Team Leadership
- Build a high-performing TMO team with strong talent, coaching, and clear growth paths
- Create repeatable routines, templates, and standards that make the work easier to execute and scale
- Partner with Internal Communications and People Analytics to reinforce adoption and impact
Qualifications
Required Experience:
- Proven leadership of modern, large-scale, AI-powered enterprise transformations in complex, matrixed organizations
- Experience building or leading a TMO, PMO, or similar transformation function
- Track record driving cross-functional transformation across people, process, and technology
- Experience partnering with senior executives and leading governance forums
Preferred Experience:
- Agile portfolio management and OKR-based value realization frameworks
- Future-of-work or workforce transformation experience
- Management consulting background strongly preferred
Leadership Capabilities:
- Exceptional executive presence and communication
- Enterprise mindset and systems thinking
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Strategic thinking paired with operational rigor
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and complexity
- Ability to drive difficult prioritization and tradeoff decisions
- Resilience, adaptability, and change leadership
- AI fluency
- Data-driven decision-making
- Bias for action, simplification, and measurable outcomes
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree in a related discipline preferred
Pay
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $259,600.00 - $348,100.00 per year.
Schedule
Not specified.