Leader, Value Creation & Business Optimization

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Lead the Value Creation Operating System by managing the set targets for Business Units with a structured governance prioritization process and reporting cadence across Revenue Growth Continuous Improvement & Automation AI and Organizational Effectiveness for the Enterprise view
• Facilitate Opportunity Identification and Prioritization with Business Unit Presidents and functional leaders ensuring initiatives align to strategy business impact scalability and value potential.
• Drive Execution Discipline and Traction by establishing project governance milestones accountability routines issue escalation and regular reviews to maintain momentum and accelerate delivery.
• Monitor Value Realization by partnering with Finance CI AI HR and Commercial Excellence initiative owners to track performance measure benefits identify gaps and provide transparency on results versus plan.
• Enable Leadership Accountability by ensuring initiative owners have clear targets success measures executive sponsorship and action plans in place. Business leaders retain ownership of outcomes and benefit realization.
• Support Adoption and Change by partnering with HR IT CI and Commercial leaders and business teams to build capability communicate progress remove barriers and sustain new ways of working.
• Provide Enterprise Visibility through dashboards monthly business reviews Steering Committee updates and executive reporting to support decision-making and resource allocation.
• Scale Best Practices Across Samuel by identifying successful initiatives facilitating knowledge sharing and driving replication where enterprise value can be created.

Qualifications

• 15 years of progressive manufacturing and/or operations leadership experience.
• Multi-site industrial or manufacturing experience.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to connect operational activities to financial outcomes.
• Operational excellence Lean Continuous Improvement and productivity improvement expertise.
• Proven experience leading large-scale business transformation initiatives.
• Excellent influential and communication skills with senior executives without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfort operating across operations finance IT HR commercial and executive leadership teams.