Chief Transformation Officer
About The Position
The Chief Transformation Officer will be responsible for designing and continuously improving the enterprise operating system, aligning Sales, Operations, Finance, HR, and IT around shared priorities. This role will optimize the performance of the whole system, replacing informal coordination with structured, repeatable processes. The CTO will translate company strategy into daily, cross-functional execution, ensuring priorities are clear, limited, and sequenced effectively, and integrating growth, operational capability, and financial discipline to enable scalable execution across all plants and functions. Additionally, the role involves establishing clear decision-making frameworks and operating rhythms, ensuring decisions are made at the right level and time to improve speed, clarity, and consistency. The CTO will also build systems for ongoing learning and improvement, reduce firefighting and rework, and ensure improvement efforts are sustained. A key aspect is maintaining focus on long-term success over short-term reactions, preventing initiative overload, and reinforcing alignment to company values and strategy.
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in operations, transformation, or enterprise systems
- Proven success leading cross-functional transformation at scale
- Experience aligning strategy to execution across multiple functions or business units
- Strong financial and operational acumen
- Deep understanding of systems thinking (Deming, Lean, or similar principles)
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement enterprise operating systems
- Experience reducing complexity and improving organizational clarity
- Track record of creating sustainable, repeatable results
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Strong executive presence and ability to engage at Board level
- Skilled in aligning senior leaders around shared priorities
- High learning agility and ability to operate in ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Design and continuously improve the enterprise operating system
- Align Sales, Operations, Finance, HR, and IT around shared priorities
- Optimize the performance of the whole system—not individual functions
- Replace informal coordination with structured, repeatable processes
- Translate company strategy into daily, cross-functional execution
- Ensure priorities are clear, limited, and sequenced effectively
- Integrate growth, operational capability, and financial discipline
- Enable scalable execution across all plants and functions
- Establish clear decision-making frameworks and escalation pathways
- Design operating rhythms (daily management, KPI reviews, planning cycles)
- Ensure decisions are made at the right level, at the right time
- Improve speed, clarity, and consistency of execution
- Build systems that enable ongoing learning and improvement
- Reduce firefighting, rework, and variability
- Ensure improvement efforts are sustained—not event-based
- Embed Lean/continuous improvement as a management system
- Maintain focus on long-term success over short-term reactions
- Prevent initiative overload and competing priorities
- Reinforce alignment to company values and strategy
- Ensure the organization does not drift under pressure
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
