Director Transformation Productivity

Bimbo Bakeries USA • Irving, TX

8h • $151,300 - $211,800

About The Position

The Director, Transformation – Productivity serves as a strategic transformation partner to executive leaders, workstream leaders, and functional teams across Manufacturing, Logistics, and Procurement. The role accelerates the identification, development, execution, and realization of productivity initiatives that deliver measurable improvements in cost, operational performance, service, capacity, and margin.

The Director leads Transformation Managers and analysts supporting the Productivity portfolio and integrates work across workstreams, Finance, ePMO, functional leaders, and initiative owners. The role ensures priorities are defined, initiatives are execution-ready, dependencies and capacity constraints are surfaced, and performance risks are addressed before value is compromised. Success requires strategic thinking, operational and financial acumen, portfolio governance, data-driven problem solving, and people leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in transformation, operations, strategy, consulting, continuous improvement, supply chain, program leadership, or a related field.
• 5+ years of people-leadership experience, including responsibility for managers, analysts, or cross-functional transformation teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale productivity, operational improvement, or enterprise transformation programs with measurable financial impact.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, operational performance drivers, business-case development, forecasting, and value realization.
• Experience managing complex portfolios involving multiple functions, senior stakeholders, dependencies, and competing resource requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and functional teams without relying on direct authority.
• Experience developing teams and building transformation capabilities within a complex matrix organization.
• Ability to adapt approach and attitude to changing demands and situations.
• Ability to create a climate where people are motivated to contribute to organizational objectives.
• Ability to hold oneself and others accountable for commitments.
• Ability to analyze complex, high-volume, and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree.
• Experience with transformation portfolio or initiative-management platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior functional and workstream leaders to translate enterprise productivity priorities into transformation roadmaps and value delivery plans.
• Oversee the Manufacturing, Logistics, and Procurement transformation portfolio, aligning it with enterprise financial objectives, the Bankable Plan, operational priorities, and longer-term productivity goals.
• Monitor high-value initiatives, portfolio performance drivers, dependencies, and initiatives at risk.
• Lead enterprise-level gap analyses to identify cost, capacity, service, process, technology, and organizational opportunities.
• Facilitate ideation and opportunity-development sessions to build a sustainable pipeline of productivity initiatives.
• Challenge teams to identify acceleration opportunities, alternative solutions, and additional sources of value.
• Coordinate sequencing across productivity and growth portfolios by identifying resource conflicts, operational dependencies, technology requirements, capital needs, and timing constraints.
• Drive initiatives from opportunity identification and business-case development through implementation, stabilization, and value realization.
• Ensure initiatives have defined scope, accountable owners, measurable value, realistic milestones, committed resources, dependencies, and decision requirements.
• Partner with Finance and initiative owners to validate assumptions, forecasts, actual performance, value timing, and delivery risks.
• Establish standards for initiative data and hygiene, including L-gate status, ownership, milestone health, forecast timing, financial assumptions, and value realization.
• Ensure Transformation Managers and initiative owners understand portfolio data and can explain changes, inconsistencies, and implications.
• Identify recurring data-quality, process, or capability gaps and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Partner with Finance, FPO, and functional teams to improve reporting consistency, dashboard usability, and portfolio transparency.
• Lead, coach, and develop Transformation Managers and analysts supporting the Productivity workstreams.
• Set objectives, performance expectations, development plans, and accountability standards.
• Allocate team capacity based on enterprise priorities, portfolio risk, initiative complexity, and value-delivery requirements.
• Develop team members' functional knowledge so they can challenge assumptions and serve as strategic partners.
• Build a high-performance culture grounded in ownership, collaboration, transparency, disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
• Build team depth and documented ways of working, and promote cross-training and knowledge transfer across productivity workstreams.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Annual bonus eligibility
• Comprehensive benefits package
• 401k
• Company match
• Safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity and promotes development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director