President, 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.