Senior Manager, Transformation and Continuous Improvement
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Transformation and Continuous Improvement leads the enterprise transformation and continuous improvement strategy. The role develops and executes initiatives to improve operational excellence, optimize processes, increase cost efficiency, and support long-term organizational effectiveness. It partners with executive and functional leaders to identify improvement opportunities, prioritize transformation roadmaps, and align initiatives with corporate objectives and business priorities. The position oversees the design, implementation, and governance of continuous improvement methodologies, including Lean, Six Sigma, process standardization, and performance management frameworks. It also leads change management and organizational adoption efforts to ensure transformation initiatives are implemented, measured, sustained, and embedded into business operations. The role establishes and monitors KPIs and value realization metrics, and provides executive leadership with actionable insights about progress, impact, risks, and opportunities. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear, and taste or smell. Frequent lifting or moving of up to 50 pounds is required. Specific vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Management may revise the role or assign different tasks as circumstances change.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in organizational change management, including stakeholder analysis, change impact assessments, communication planning, training strategies, organizational readiness assessments, and adoption measurement.
- Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across executive leadership and diverse stakeholder groups, manage competing priorities, and guide organizations through complex change initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of process improvement and change management methodologies, such as Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, Prosci ADKAR, Kotter Change Model, or equivalent frameworks, with a demonstrated track record of delivering measurable and sustainable business results.
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale organizational change initiatives, including technology implementations, process redesign, operating model transformations, mergers and integrations, or other enterprise-wide programs requiring significant stakeholder engagement and behavior change.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, including the ability to articulate complex concepts, build consensus, manage resistance to change, and influence decision-making at all levels of the organization.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8-10 years of progressive leadership experience in transformation, continuous improvement, business operations, management consulting, or related disciplines, including experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Microsoft Office proficiency.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead the enterprise transformation and continuous improvement strategy, developing and executing initiatives that drive operational excellence, process optimization, cost efficiency, and long-term organizational effectiveness.
- Partner with executive and functional leadership teams to identify strategic improvement opportunities, prioritize transformation roadmaps, and ensure alignment with corporate objectives and business priorities.
- Oversee the design, implementation, and governance of continuous improvement methodologies, including Lean, Six Sigma, process standardization, and performance management frameworks across the organization.
- Drive change management and organizational adoption efforts so transformation initiatives are effectively implemented, measured, sustained, and embedded into business operations.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators and value realization metrics, and provide executive leadership with actionable insights on initiative progress, business impact, risks, and opportunities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package intended to support team members' health, future planning, and work-life balance; benefits may vary with employment status.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
