Director - Logistics, Value Transformation Office
About The Position
Clorox is on a margin transformation journey to combat extraordinary and unprecedented levels of inflationary headwinds and margin pressures. To enable this transformation, Clorox established the Value Transformation Office (VTO) with the goal of building a clear and highly actionable pipeline to deliver the company’s margin improvement targets. The Value Transformation Office’s vision is to drive transformational, enterprise-wide margin improvement through a sustainable pipeline, systematic approach, and rigorous value management. Key objectives include: -Amplify, accelerate, and enable Clorox to achieve its strategic margin objectives (balancing in-year targets with a 3-year strategic horizon) -Act as a control tower that provides transparency into overall margin transformation program delivery, risks, and tradeoffs -Drive best practices to create a margin expansion mindset across the enterprise -Facilitate the identification and formalization of cross-BU, and enterprise initiatives annually. We are looking for a dynamic team member who can drive dig site identification, large-scale ideation, playbook development, and change management associated with margin improvements. Focus for this individual is to identify margin enhancement across the value chain, but with a greater focus on logistics. The scope of the Value Transformation Office is full Gross Margin, with focused teams for cost savings and revenue growth management activities. This role will join the cost savings leadership team and report to the Senior Director of Cost Transformation. This team drives margin transformation across all of Clorox, in partnership with executive leadership, business unit general managers, and functional leaders.
Requirements
- Strong coaching and people development skills
- Strong facilitation, ideation, and coordination skills; ability to drive forward new ways of thinking and solicit input from a diverse set of stakeholders
- Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills and ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and/or solutions to multiple organizational levels, in a highly cross-functional organization, internally and externally as needed
- Strong process orientation and a solid understanding of project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices
- Strong ability to collaborate & influence across a range of functions / teams / levels
- Experience in diagnosing, isolating, resolving, and documenting complex issues and recommendations
- Demonstrated strategic ability to solve complex global cross-functional issues, exercising critical thinking and sound judgment
- Self-starter with strong results orientation, able to drive progress in an ambiguous environment, and track record of hitting and exceeding targets
- Proven leadership and people development skills of a substantial team of diverse individuals
- Takes an enterprise view that considers and anticipates implications across multiple global stakeholders
Nice To Haves
- MBA or Master’s degree in a relevant field is a plus
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate logistics margin transformation program and ideation to fill a 3-year margin transformation pipeline
- Document and prioritize opportunities, facilitating the development of detailed business case analyses that provide full visibility into margin potential
- Evaluate interdependencies across initiatives and escalate risks to the executive team and workstream leads as necessary
- Track margin improvement program value realization; escalate risk and mitigations related to financials
- Partner with senior leadership in establishing logistics margin targets and multi-year margin improvement strategies
- Drive coordination of margin improvement efforts across the enterprise and proactive cross-functional action planning for risks, mitigations, and dependencies
- Partner with Strategic Business Unit and Functional leaders to enable execution of margin improvement targets and share joint accountability for their delivery
- Support the creation of executive updates (e.g., senior executive committee, Board updates) and develop meeting materials (including consolidation of materials from Business Unit and working teams)
- Support the development of communications and education in support of Value Transformation Office objectives across the enterprise
- Lead in advancing overall margin enhancement capability development
- Lead in the development of tools and best practices across the VTO; create, document, and enforce VTO governance model
- Provide coaching and professional development support to direct reports within VTO
- Lead in the development of processes, techniques, and playbooks to advance margin improvement ideation and identification
- Facilitate best practice sharing across business units and functions to enable value creation
- Serve as a challenge partner for senior leadership; influence stakeholders at the vice president level
- Maximize efficient and effective use of resources, knowing how and when to leverage external partners, internal technical and functional resources, and BU expertise
Benefits
- robust health plans
- a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
- flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location)
- inclusive fertility/adoption benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
