Sr Director Transformation - Value Realization

Honeywell•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director Enterprise Transformation – Value Realization builds the mechanisms, methods, and governance needed to translate enterprise transformation activity into measurable bottom-line impact. The role establishes a consistent approach to defining, baselining, targeting, attributing, forecasting, and realizing value across the transformation portfolio. It connects operational outcomes to the P&L and provides credible visibility into benefits, risks, and performance against commitments, using strong financial and P&L expertise as well as creative approaches to measuring business impact beyond traditional metrics. Working closely with Finance, Strategic Business Group (SBG) and functional leaders, transformation teams, and initiative owners, the role ensures programs align with measurable targets and that value commitments are supported by clear assumptions, evidence, governance, and accountability. It reports to the VP Enterprise Transformation and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; or Houston, Texas, on a hybrid work schedule.

Requirements

8 or more years of progressive leadership experience in finance, value realization, enterprise transformation, strategy execution, management consulting, FP&A, business performance, or a related discipline.
Understanding of P&L drivers and experience connecting operational initiatives to measurable financial outcomes.
Experience developing business cases, financial baselines, benefit forecasts, KPIs, and value tracking for complex programs.
Experience influencing executive stakeholders and partnering across Finance, businesses, functions, and transformation teams.
A track record of establishing measurement discipline and delivering clear, credible reporting of business impact.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
MBA or related advanced degree.
Experience in a global, matrixed enterprise environment.
Background in corporate finance, FP&A, strategy consulting, value creation, operational excellence, or transformation office leadership.
Expertise in financial modeling, benefit attribution, forecasting, KPI design, portfolio governance, and executive reporting.
Experience measuring productivity, cost, margin, cash, working capital, growth, or service value.
Ability to combine financial rigor with creative, pragmatic approaches to measuring nontraditional or indirect value.
Experience using analytics, visualization, automation, or AI to improve performance and value reporting.
Strong executive communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and structured problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

Develop and own a consistent enterprise value realization methodology across transformation programs.
Define standards for value identification, baselining, target setting, benefit attribution, forecasting, validation, and sustainment.
Create frameworks connecting operational, customer, organizational, and digital outcomes to financial impact, including fit-for-purpose approaches for benefits that are difficult to measure through traditional financial metrics.
Establish common definitions, templates, assumptions, and evidence requirements for consistent value measurement.
Partner with Finance and business leaders to translate transformation outcomes into applicable revenue, margin, cost, cash, working-capital, and productivity impacts.
Ensure value commitments are traceable to business plans, forecasts, budgets, and relevant P&L lines without double counting.
Develop financial baselines and document assumptions, timing, dependencies, and attribution logic; distinguish gross benefits, implementation costs, net benefits, realized value, and sustained run-rate impact.
Ensure transformation programs have explicit, measurable business and financial targets from inception, and partner with initiative owners to establish measures, milestones, ownership, and realization timing.
Constructively challenge targets and assumptions, integrate value realization into stage gates, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization, and link leading operational indicators to expected financial outcomes.
Maintain governance and measurement discipline across the transformation portfolio, including decision rights and accountability among Finance, transformation teams, process owners, and business leaders.
Lead recurring value reviews covering progress, variance, risks, dependencies, and corrective actions; define controls for benefit approval, commitment changes, claim validation, and benefit closure.
Promote transparency and a trusted enterprise-wide view of transformation value.
Track benefits, KPIs, milestones, and progress against approved commitments from business case through sustainment.
Develop dashboards and executive reports distinguishing activity, operational performance, financial impact, and confidence in realization.
Identify forecast-to-realized-value gaps, lead root-cause analysis, and drive recovery actions; monitor leading and lagging indicators for benefit leakage or delayed impact.
Ensure completed programs demonstrate sustained results rather than one-time or unsupported benefit claims.
Develop measurement approaches using scenario and sensitivity analysis, benchmarks, and proxy measures, with transparent assumptions.
Partner with data, analytics, and technology teams to improve measurement accuracy, timeliness, and repeatability; generate portfolio insights and continuously improve the value realization methodology.
Advise executives on transformation economics, value trade-offs, and portfolio performance, communicating complex financial and operational information in a concise, credible, decision-oriented manner.
Build alignment across Finance, SBGs, functions, and transformation teams on value definitions and commitments.
Build and lead high-performing teams and foster an inclusive, collaborative, results-oriented culture; coach initiative owners and transformation leaders in commercial thinking, financial acumen, and accountability for outcomes.