Transformation Manager

Vertage•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

The Transformation Manager connects globally driven transformation with successful regional execution. The role combines responsibility for one or more assigned enterprise transformations with a regional anchor, ensuring broader transformation requirements are incorporated into source plans and that change is implemented coherently, practically and sustainably across the region. The role provides an integrated view of regional transformation, supports consistent implementation across markets, and gives the Regional Senior Leadership Team visibility into priorities, dependencies, risks, decisions, capacity and readiness. Reporting to the Head of Business Transformation, the Transformation Manager partners with enterprise program managers and regional leaders to integrate transformation plans, manage the regional portfolio and governance, coordinate activation and adoption, and support value realization and transition into business as usual. The role also collaborates across regions to address shared dependencies and circulate effective practices and lessons.

Requirements

Strong experience in enterprise transformation, program or portfolio management, and/or transformation integration in a complex, matrixed organization.
Demonstrated experience coordinating transformation across multiple functions, programs and/or countries.
Proven ability to partner with senior leaders and influence across organizational boundaries without formal authority.
Experience creating integrated portfolio visibility across milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, capacity and readiness.
Experience in regional activation, change readiness, adoption and transition into business as usual, beyond project delivery alone.
Strong facilitation, communication, governance and executive-reporting skills, including the ability to simplify complex issues and present clear trade-offs.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and using modern collaboration, portfolio and AI-enabled tools to improve execution.
Strategic and enterprise transformation thinking.
Stakeholder engagement, influence and executive communication.
Portfolio, project, governance, risk and dependency management.
Change leadership, readiness and adoption.
Cross-regional and cross-cultural collaboration.
Pragmatic problem solving and strong follow-through.

Responsibilities

Work with accountable Program Managers to identify wider regional transformation requirements and incorporate them into source plans.
Surface gaps and inconsistencies early and help resolve them across the Business Office, Product & Technology, functions and regions.
Partner with the Regional SLT to connect enterprise transformation priorities with regional priorities and business realities.
Provide the Regional SLT with visibility into changes, priorities, sequencing and capacity constraints, and decisions or escalations required.
Support the Regional SLT in making informed trade-offs while preserving agreed enterprise outcomes and standards.
Own and actively manage the regional transformation board and portfolio view, including milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, capacity and readiness.
Apply enterprise portfolio and program-management standards proportionately and connect regional information to enterprise reporting and governance.
Translate enterprise models, processes, products and services, releases, and ways of working into practical regional activation plans.
Work alongside Transformation Office Change and Communications Managers to assess readiness and absorbability across the combined change agenda, including capacity, capability, communications, training and leadership readiness.
Identify legitimate local variation and work with Change, Communications and functional teams to support adoption.
Coordinate with other Transformation Managers on shared transformations, dependencies, risks and common needs.
Connect Regional SLTs or delivery teams when priorities, capacity or sequencing cross regional boundaries.
Reuse effective practices and feed regional insights, lessons and issues into enterprise decisions.
Connect regional outcomes, adoption measures and value requirements to enterprise transformation objectives.
Support transition into business as usual, including local ownership, reinforcement and continuous-improvement mechanisms.
Escalate material barriers that could prevent intended business value from being realized.