LYBOM Transformation Leader

Lyondell Basell North America•Houston, TX

About The Position

LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary MoReTec recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.Come Join an Inclusive TeamAs part of LYB’s Operating Model (LYBOM) transformation, the LYB Operating Model Transformation Leader plays a critical role in ensuring coordination, integration, and alignment across six enterprise tracks: Hire to Retire (H2R), Plan to Perform (P2P), Record to Report (R2R), Lead to Cash (L2C), Demand to Supply (D2S), and Source to Pay (S2P). These tracks form the backbone of LYB’s future-state enterprise model, embedding standardized end-to-end processes, digital enablement, and scalable service delivery across functions. The role provides the connective tissue between track leaders, program management, and functional stakeholders, ensuring that activities within and across tracks are executed in a disciplined, synchronized manner. By overseeing cross-track dependencies, governance, and risk management, the LYB Operating Model Transformation Leader ensures that workstreams move forward in alignment with LYBOM’s transformation agenda, ERP deployment milestones, and broader digital transformation initiatives. This position is central to harmonizing global processes, integrating technology and people readiness, and enabling a sustainable transition to the new OM. The LYB Operating Model Transformation Leader ensures that LYB’s transformation balances operational excellence with cultural and organizational change. Key to the role is driving cross-track visibility and accountability: ensuring clear reporting on progress, risks, and KPIs, preparing leadership updates, and enabling timely decision-making across complex and interdependent initiatives. The role also drives adoption of standardized methodologies, instills governance discipline, and fosters collaboration across functions, geographies, and levels of the organization. Ultimately, the LYB Operating Model Transformation Leader supports the Sr. Program Director and serves as a critical enabler of the LYB enterprise transformation journey, helping to translate strategy into coordinated execution, bridging people, process, and technology, and ensuring that value realization from the transformation is captured consistently across all tracks. This leader will need to exude passion for the transformation efforts through instilling a disciplined approach in identifying and capturing value opportunities, challenging the status quo to drive optimized process and operating model outcomes, and influencing the broader organization to drive the right decisions and pace of change in achieving the future enterprise operating model design.

Requirements

Business or relevant four year degree with 15 years of broad strategy, operations and org design experience in large organizations
Proven track record supporting enterprise-wide transformations including process standardization, simplification, technology implementations, ways of working transformations and ERP/SAP deployments.
Excellent leadership skills with the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop a high-performing team, whether through direct or indirect management
Commitment to refining and improving processes for greater efficiency
Proven ability to manage complex, large-scale transformation projects
Adept at drawing insights on interdependencies across different processes, organizations, and programs; ability to quickly acquire appropriate knowledge of inflight programs for facilitating prioritization decisions
Clear communicator that can effectively articulate messages for various levels of audience and across multiple functions
Possesses certain area(s) of expertise pertinent to the operating model scope, especially core corporate functions including HR, Supply Chain, Finance, and Procurement
Strong understanding and experiences with E2E functions and touchpoints across the enterprise value chain
Experience in driving major programs or initiatives and ability to drive change with appropriate change management strategy
Fosters collaboration across functions and geographies
Cultivates innovation and embeds continuous improvement
Displays resilience, courage, and decisive leadership
Drives disciplined results and accountability in complex transformations
Builds trust and alignment across senior leadership and global team

Responsibilities

Maintain oversight and integration of program activities across all six enterprise tracks, ensuring alignment with the overall transformation roadmap
Establish governance routines for cross-track dependencies, risks, and decisions, drawing from prior experience managing multi-country transformations
Ensure consistent progress tracking, KPI reporting, and value realization across all tracks
Support the Sr. Program Director in execution of the operating model transformation agenda, embedding proven methodologies from prior large-scale HR and ERP-enabled transitions
Facilitate integration of in-flight initiatives into the LYBOM program and ensure sequencing across functions and geographies
Develop and maintain cross-track implementation calendars, highlighting dependencies and critical milestones
Anticipate and address risks related to people, process, and technology transitions, leveraging expertise from prior payroll, workforce administration, and ERP deployment programs
Collaborate with track leads to implement risk mitigation strategies and safeguard continuity of delivery
Engage track leads, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, IT, Procurement, Manufacturing and regional business stakeholders to ensure cross-functional alignment
Prepare executive-level dashboards and communications that synthesize cross-track progress and risks into actionable insights
Build trusted relationships across global teams to drive alignment and accountability
Promote standardization, best practices, and continuous improvement across tracks
Partner with Finance and leadership to ensure business case value delivery and tracking across workstreams
Embed operational excellence and a culture of accountability across delivery teams