Director Strategic Transformation

Darigold is seeking a Strategic Transformation Director to help lead a strategic and operational transformation.

With 105 years of history in the Pacific Northwest, Darigold is a dynamic, rapidly changing business in transformation, driven by:

• A large and complex manufacturing footprint – including 11 manufacturing facilities and work underway on one of the world’s largest facilities of its kind.
• Fast-growing consumer business leveraging a strong brand to promote innovative new products to consumers across the United States
• Global business benefitting from world-class ports to supply global food production brands.
• Enterprise focus on sustainability, as one of the largest players supplying low-carbon agricultural products.
  
  

This role provides the opportunity for an analytically minded individual with strong leadership skills to help lead Darigold through this transformation as a trusted partner to the Chief Transformation Officer and the rest of the Senior Leadership Team. The Transformation Office operates in a unique space between strategy, execution, and financial results. It is a unique opportunity for the right candidate to rapidly grow as a strategic thinker, operationally minded leader, and financial principal.

The successful candidate will lead strategic planning efforts and drive cross-functional decision making that will accelerate growth, while emphasizing the importance of organizational health. Additionally, this individual will work with Senior Leadership Team members to establish outside-in targets for the business, and to work closely with peers in the Transformation Office to maintain accountability.

Specific projects will include research, analysis, financial modeling, and forming recommendations related to emerging industry trends, expansion opportunities, strategic investments, competitive threats, and internal business performance improvement.

This candidate will have exceptional communications and relationship-building skills, with experience partnering with senior executives to identify strategic and operational issues impacting the business, as well as proposing strategic options to explore. The candidate will operate independently, acting as an analytical and intellectually curious leader structuring analyses and strategies, and articulating recommendations to a wide range of business leaders.

What You Will Do

• Strategic planning
• Lead annual strategic planning process.
• Understand and gain alignment on sources of long-term value.
• Develop an outside-in perspective of benchmarks and targets.
• Drive long-term projections alongside Financial Planning & Analysis
• Cross-functional problem solving and decision making.
• Identify cross-functional decisions that can unlock value.
• Act as a thought-partner to decision sponsors: owning decision logic and analysis to support recommendations.
• Maintain the backlog of critical decisions: setting the pace of the organization.
• Execution Support
• Understand critical initiatives requiring support.
• Analyze blockers of key actions, and work as a leader to un-block or escalate.
• Assess initiatives that have succeeded or failed to synthesize and syndicate lessons learned.
• Lead complex cross-functional drivers of value (e.g., new products, new investments, inorganic opportunities, financing)
  

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree, in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or in a related area. MBA and CPA or CFA strongly preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience in one of the following: Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Corporate Development, or Corporate FP&A
• Strong quantitative skillset and financial acumen, and ability to form sound financial judgements through analysis, modeling, and estimation.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments, sometimes under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and lead teams in previous roles.
• Proven track record of strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Comfort with a workplace predicated on radical candor (personal care and direct challenges) that will enable rapid personal growth.
  
  

Benefits Of Working At Darigold

We understand that as an employee, benefits that support you and your family in and out of work are important. We’re proud to offer eligible positions a competitive total rewards package – that includes:

• Employer 401K contribution of up to 9%
• Comprehensive medical, dental & vision benefits
• Employer paid life & disability coverage.
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• 8 weeks paid parental leave.
• Education assistance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible working arrangement where applies (up to 2 days/week after initial 90 days and approval by hiring manager and HR)
• Community giving through matching donations.
• Compensation range: $167,086.00-$250,629.00 (individual wage based on previous experience, knowledge, and skills)
• Relocation Assistance
  
  

Our Commitment to Diversity

Achieving our vision to Lead Dairy Forward requires cultivating and supporting a team with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are committed to providing a workplace based on mutual respect where all employees feel included and can bring their best and authentic selves to work every day. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, marital status, creed, religion, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. As a condition of employment applicants offered a role will be required to successfully pass our pre-employment background screen, receive a negative drug screen result & confirm eligibility to work in the U.S. We participate in E-Verify - please follow the links for details, English / Spanish & view our Right to Work Statement, English / Spanish.