Director, Enterprise Transformation & Integration

POLYTEK DEVELOPMENT CORP•Easton, PA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Polytek® Development Corp., a leading manufacturer of mold making and casting materials, is seeking an experienced, organized professional to support the continued growth and transformation of Smooth-On following its acquisition of Polytek. The role works with senior leadership and partners across operations, manufacturing, finance, sales, supply chain, technology, and other functions to identify opportunities, develop solutions, and lead high-impact strategic initiatives. The position is responsible for leading the integration of Polytek into Smooth-On, evaluating and implementing a future enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, optimizing business processes, developing manufacturing footprint strategy, and advancing other enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. It combines strategy and execution: the successful candidate will structure complex problems, coordinate stakeholders, develop recommendations, and drive initiatives through implementation. The role offers broad exposure to the company’s operations and strategic and operational decisions. The Director will establish and lead the Integration Management Office, oversee integration governance and change management, manage ERP selection and implementation, assess manufacturing operations across five facilities, and lead process improvements and strategic projects. The position is expected to help maintain customer service, employee engagement, and operational performance throughout transformation efforts. The role requires an in-office presence four days per week and business travel as needed to support integration activities, facility assessments, cross-functional initiatives, and projects across company locations. Employees must wear required personal protective equipment when entering manufacturing areas.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
Strong project and program management capabilities.
Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, including the ability to move from high-level strategy to detailed execution.
Strong financial and business acumen.
Ability to analyze data, develop business cases, and make fact-based recommendations.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Ability to influence stakeholders across an organization without relying solely on formal authority.
Ability to work directly with senior executives and functional leaders.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and create structure where it does not yet exist.
Highly organized and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Willingness and ability to learn unfamiliar areas of the business quickly and work across functional boundaries.
Ability to travel for business as needed to support integration activities, facility assessments, cross-functional initiatives, and projects across company locations.
Ability to sit at a desk for prolonged periods and work on a computer.
Ability to work in an office environment and to talk, hear, and see, including close/near, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment.
Must wear required personal protective equipment when entering manufacturing areas.
Expected to work in the office four days per week.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ERP implementations, M&A integration, manufacturing operations, process improvement, or enterprise transformation is highly valuable.

Responsibilities

Partner with senior leadership to evaluate business performance, identify improvement opportunities, and develop and execute strategic initiatives.
Develop a broad understanding of the company’s operations, financial performance, commercial strategy, manufacturing, supply chain, technology, and organizational structure.
Analyze complex business problems and develop actionable recommendations for leadership.
Set objectives, workplans, governance structures, milestones, and success measures for major initiatives.
Manage multiple concurrent strategic and operational projects and provide senior leadership with updates on progress, risks, decisions, and recommendations.
Identify opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness, profitability, scalability, and customer service.
Establish and lead the Integration Management Office and develop and maintain the enterprise integration roadmap.
Facilitate executive steering committee governance and manage synergy tracking and value-realization reporting.
Lead integration change management, communication planning, stakeholder engagement, employee adoption, and change-readiness monitoring.
Develop risk mitigation and business continuity plans related to integration and transformation activities.
Lead and coordinate Polytek’s integration into Smooth-On across operations, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, technology, systems, processes, people, and other functions.
Set integration priorities, timelines, ownership, and accountability with functional leaders; track dependencies, risks, and financial or operational impact.
Identify synergies and opportunities to consolidate, standardize, or redesign processes and leverage combined capabilities, facilities, systems, people, and resources.
Lead cross-functional teams through integration implementation and organizational change while maintaining customer service, employee engagement, and operational performance.
Lead evaluation and selection of a new ERP platform and supporting technology ecosystem; assess current systems, processes, data, reporting, and capabilities across both organizations.
Develop business and functional requirements and evaluate ERP solutions and implementation partners in coordination with relevant functions.
Lead or oversee ERP implementation and transition, including governance, project plans, decision frameworks, and change management.
Identify opportunities to standardize and improve processes as part of ERP transformation and support reliable data, reporting, forecasting, and business intelligence.
Evaluate manufacturing operations across five facilities, including utilization, capacity, product mix, costs, logistics, capabilities, equipment, labor, and performance.
Develop business cases and recommendations for manufacturing footprint decisions, including consolidation, production transfers, process relocation, capacity utilization improvements, or facility closures where appropriate.
Lead operational changes and partner with manufacturing and operations leadership to minimize disruption to customers and employees.
Map and evaluate critical business processes; identify inefficiencies, redundancies, bottlenecks, manual work, and opportunities for automation or standardization.
Develop scalable future-state processes, establish process performance metrics and KPIs, and lead implementation of improvements across functions.
Align process redesign with technology decisions rather than treating them as separate initiatives.
Lead additional high-priority projects identified by senior leadership; conduct analysis and develop business cases, financial analyses, project plans, presentations, and executive recommendations.
Coordinate internal teams and external partners as required; take ownership of ambiguous problems and provide flexible leadership, analysis, or execution where needed.