Senior Manager, Business Transformation & Optimization (BT&O)

Cohesity•Raleigh, NC

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. The Senior Manager, Business Transformation & Optimization (BT&O) plays a strategic execution leadership role in driving Cohesity’s most critical enterprise initiatives and ensuring measurable value realization across the organization. Reporting to the Director, BT&O, this role leads cross-functional efforts that reshape how the company operates to enable scalability, competitive advantage, and long-term value creation, formalizing, unifying, and simplifying how we operate. This role directly supports initiatives such as: Operating Model Changes, M&A Integration, POC / Pilot Development, AI Transformation, Value Delivery Reporting, Business Process Optimization, Annual Operating Plan Maturation and Administration, and IPO Readiness.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in business transformation, consulting, program management, or operational excellence within a technology-driven environment.
Proven success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives that deliver measurable business impact.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to distill complexity into clarity.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior leadership.
Demonstrated ability to drive operational efficiency and process improvement across diverse functions.
Comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels using project and change frameworks as tools to enable outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree in business, management, or related field.
Background in consulting or enterprise transformation within SaaS or technology organizations.
Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, and/or Agile methodologies.
Highly collaborative, curious, and proactive; thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Trusted problem solver and connector who builds strong relationships across the enterprise.
Confident and thoughtful communicator who can respectfully challenge assumptions and align stakeholders toward the best outcome.

Responsibilities

Strategic Initiative Delivery Lead and execute high-impact transformation programs that enable sustained enterprise performance, operational maturity, and long-term shareholder value.
Translate strategic objectives into clear, executable transformation roadmaps with outcomes, milestones, owners, and financial impact defined upfront.
Partner closely with business and functional leaders to identify, scope, and deliver solutions to Cohesity’s most critical enterprise challenges.
Serve as a force-multiplier for executive intent — converting vision into execution without adding bureaucracy.
Analyze complex business problems, synthesize insights, and develop practical, decision-ready recommendations that drive real change.
Connect dots across the organization to surface interdependencies, risks, structural inefficiencies, and opportunities for optimization.
Bring structure, clarity, and forward momentum to ambiguous initiatives.
Take initiative to identify pain points and drive clarity without waiting for direction.
Operate comfortably in imperfect-data environments while maintaining analytical rigor.
Identify and implement opportunities to streamline and unify business processes, reduce duplication, and improve scalability.
Support the design of new operating models and governance frameworks that enable speed, consistency, and accountability.
Drive continuous improvement by embedding efficiency, simplification, and accountability into daily ways of working.
Apply Lean, Agile, or similar methodologies as tools — not dogma — to accelerate outcomes.
Define and track value realization metrics to assess financial, operational, and strategic impact of transformation work.
Provide executive-level visibility into progress, outcomes, risks, and lessons learned.
Contribute to the development of tools and frameworks that enhance how the organization measures strategic success.
Ensure every major initiative has a quantified business case, benefits tracking, and post-implementation validation.