Director, Transformation

Job Title: Director, Transformation

Job Status: full-time, permanent

Work location: Hoboken, NJ; hybrid

Your Role

The Transformation Director leads and manages the overall Portfolio, Program, and Project Management (PPM) strategy while acting as PMO subject matter expert/advisor to the organization. As the needs of the business evolves this leader will continue to play a critical role in the end-to-end transformation of our organization. This includes the successful implementation of a cross functional, enterprise-wide set of transformational programs or projects delivered in a timely manner with quality and excellence. This position is responsible for a team of program/project managers, identifying resource constraints, establishing and maintaining the roadmap for portfolio execution, and ensuring interdependent projects and milestones are successfully managed. The successful candidate will provide oversight using leading project management principles and methodologies, monitor and control risks and impacts to execution, and influence and collaborate with all levels of the organization. Establish strong relationships with business sponsors and executive leadership to understand and identify effective solutions for business outcomes that align with Lipton Teas and Infusions transformational objectives.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership on Lipton’s transformation journey, ensuring the team is fully focused on 100% of Lipton’s key priorities 100% of the time.
• Ensure successful execution of programs/projects consistent with the goals of the strategic plan.
• Provide strategic and tactical direction/leadership to ensure optimal prioritization and resource optimization.
• Design, implement, and evolve the enterprise program/project/change management capability; guide the application of program/project management methods and standards across the ePMO and organization.
• Define, develop, implement, and train and ensure adoption of enterprise-wide program/project management standards, practices, tools, governance standards, processes, and metrics.
• Monitor and report on the progress of the portfolio of project milestones, health, and budget to executive leadership and impacted stakeholders
• Educate stakeholders on EPMO capabilities and standards and leadership skills, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and within the organization.
• Cultivate a high-performance environment that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates the team by fostering an inclusive work environment, communicating vision/values/business strategy, and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Champion change with a growth mindset to support maturing organizational business readiness and change management plans to successfully execute new initiatives.
• Effective at conveying a vision, energizing others, establishing goals and measures, holding others accountable and delivering results.
• Demonstrates strong leadership presence, influencing skills and sense of urgency.
• Highly advanced project management skills with significant experience delivering multiple complex projects, delegating responsibility between teams, overseeing multiple projects, managing others, and leading teams to prioritize among competing project/customer needs.
• Demonstrated ePMO leadership skills and ability to deliver business results and build strong teams.
• Strong coach and motivator, with proven experience leading teams and developing high potential talent.
• Actively promotes core values and consistently integrates innovation, associate fulfillment, teamwork, respect, excellence, integrity, service, and accountability into each aspect of their work.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.

Skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree, master’s degree preferred.
• 15 years relevant work experience with a minimum of 5 years leading direct reports.
• Leader with cross functional experience highly desirable.
• Experience working in a variety of project methodologies beneficial (including Waterfall, Agile, Six Sigma, etc.)
• Knowledge and expertise in the use of collaboration and project management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet,
• JIRA, etc.
• Project Management certifications (PMP, Agile Scrum, Prosci CM, etc.) preferred.

What’s in it for you

We believe that growth is for everyone, we believe in growing leaders, and we believe in making space to grow an owner’s mentality. Like nature, we adapt, we change, and we grow. We believe in connections over hierarchies and work levels. We have a 'corporate start-up' approach; we act with speed and agility, and we have the strength and scale of a large corporation. We are building a better world of wellbeing, and a better you.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive insurance plans - health, dental disability and life Insurance
• 401(k) with 5% company matching an extra 4% after your first year
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Accounts
• 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 company holidays, 3 floating holidays, and 3 volunteer days to give back
• Parental Leave - Primary & Secondary
• Learning and development reimbursement

LIPTON Teas and Infusions is an organization committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. We are interested in every individual bringing their whole self to work and this includes you! Therefore if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.