Transformation director
Main mission
The mission consists of designing, steering, and ensuring the completion of a set of interdependent projects that will bring about lasting change to the company's strategy, processes, technologies, skills, and ultimately its culture, in order to achieve measurable performance and sustainability objectives.
The Director is responsible for
• Aligning all components of the organization with the strategy and business challenges.
• Delivering the expected benefits (financial value, efficiency, customer experience, compliance).
• Ensuring the consistency and synchronization of component projects.
• Securing stakeholder buy-in and skills transfer.
Typical contexts for intervention include:
- Mergers and acquisitions: preparation for a carve-out or post-acquisition integration
- Reorganization to improve efficiency or post-crisis, with an overhaul of operational models and the creation of shared service centers (SSCs), for example
- Change of business model
- Digital transformation
Key responsibilities
• Cross-functional governance of the program, including all impacted functions.
• Multi-dimensional management: strategy, organization, processes, IS, HR, operations, communication.
• Management of the overall budget, risks, and priorities. Risk mitigation and escalation plans.
• Establishment and facilitation of decision-making bodies (steering committee, executive committee, project committees).
• Operational transfer and program closure with impact assessment.
Required functional profile
The ideal candidate is a cross-functional manager capable of translating strategy into an operational roadmap, managing a portfolio of interdependent projects, and ensuring governance, coordination, and management of business, IT, and HR impacts.
The primary functional focus will depend on the nature of the project and therefore the key skills required.