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.

Lead the Value Creation Operating System by managing targets across revenue growth, AI, and organizational effectiveness for various business units. Drive execution discipline and value realization through structured governance, executive reporting, and the scaling of best practices.

Requires over 15 years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing or industrial operations, including multi-site management. Candidates must possess strong financial acumen, expertise in Lean/Continuous Improvement, and a proven track record of leading large-scale business transformations.

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• Value Creation
• Business Optimization
• Continuous Improvement
• Automation
• AI Implementation
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Project Governance
• Financial Acumen
• Lean Manufacturing
• Business Transformation
• Executive Communication
• Analytical Problem Solving
• Change Management
• Strategic Prioritization
• Performance Monitoring
• Stakeholder Management

• Management & Leadership
• Manufacturing
• Consulting
• Finance & Accounting
• Data & Analytics

Minimum experience

10+ years

Apply by

Sep 19, 2026

Posting language

English

Working hours

40 hours per week

Seniority

Director

Application method

Direct apply is available