Key Responsibilities
Enterprise System Design & Alignment
- Design and continuously improve the enterprise operating system
- Align Sales, Operations, Finance, HR, and IT around shared priorities
- Optimize the performance of the whole system—not individual functions
- Replace informal coordination with structured, repeatable processes
Strategy Execution
- Translate company strategy into daily, cross-functional execution
- Ensure priorities are clear, limited, and sequenced effectively
- Integrate growth, operational capability, and financial discipline
- Enable scalable execution across all plants and functions
Decision-Making & Operating Rhythm
- Establish clear decision-making frameworks and escalation pathways
- Design operating rhythms (daily management, KPI reviews, planning cycles)
- Ensure decisions are made at the right level, at the right time
- Improve speed, clarity, and consistency of execution
Continuous Improvement & Learning Systems
- Build systems that enable ongoing learning and improvement
- Reduce firefighting, rework, and variability
- Ensure improvement efforts are sustained—not event-based
- Embed Lean/continuous improvement as a management system
Constancy of Purpose
- Maintain focus on long-term success over short-term reactions
- Prevent initiative overload and competing priorities
- Reinforce alignment to company values and strategy
- Ensure the organization does not drift under pressure
Qualifications & Experience
Required Experience
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in operations, transformation, or enterprise systems
- Proven success leading cross-functional transformation at scale
- Experience aligning strategy to execution across multiple functions or business units
- Strong financial and operational acumen
Systems Thinking & Leadership
- Deep understanding of systems thinking (Deming, Lean, or similar principles)
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement enterprise operating systems
- Experience reducing complexity and improving organizational clarity
- Track record of creating sustainable, repeatable results
Leadership Capabilities
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Strong executive presence and ability to engage at Board level
- Skilled in aligning senior leaders around shared priorities
- High learning agility and ability to operate in ambiguity