Manager - Value Realization Office

As the Manager – Value Realization, you will support the operating discipline for benefits governance, value tracking, KPI reporting, forecasting support, and execution follow-through across enterprise transformation initiatives. You will be accountable for translating initiative performance into reliable financial and operational insights, maintaining benefit tracking documentation, monitoring realized value and value leakage, and preparing dashboards, governance materials, and action-oriented reporting for leadership. You will partner with Finance, IT, Value Delivery Teams, and business stakeholders to validate assumptions, reconcile results, escalate risks, and support integration of transformation benefits into planning and forecasting routines.

Responsibilities:

• Drive value tracking and benefits governance. Manage the data, documentation, and governance routines used to track baseline assumptions, committed benefits, realized benefits, timing, owners, risks, dependencies, and supporting evidence for assigned transformation initiatives.
• Lead KPI reporting and performance insights. Develop and manage dashboards, scorecards, and leadership reporting that provide visibility to realized value, adoption, milestone progress, risks, issue resolution, and performance against committed outcomes.
• Coordinate forecasting and financial integration. Partner with Corporate FP&A to validate benefit assumptions, monitor forecast impacts, reconcile realized value, and support incorporation of transformation benefits into budgets, forecasts, and planning processes.
• Manage execution follow-through and issue resolution. Work with Value Delivery Teams, IT, Finance, and internal stakeholders to track action items, monitor delivery barriers, document decisions, escalate risks or value leakage, and coordinate follow-up needed to deliver committed value.
• Own portfolio operating routines. Prepare materials for governance meetings, stage-gate reviews, business reviews, and leadership updates, ensuring initiative status, decisions, risks, issues, and value impacts are documented and communicated consistently.
• Advance value realization tools and process improvements. Improve playbooks, reporting standards, data definitions, templates, and value tracking processes that strengthen transparency, accountability, and consistency across the Value Realization Office.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree - Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Business Analytics, Information Systems, or related discipline is required; Master's Degree - MBA or advanced degree in Finance, Business Administration, Business Analytics, Information Systems, or related discipline is preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, business operations, transformation, enterprise program management, data analytics, or value realization.
• Experience tracking financial and operational benefits, maintaining KPI dashboards, supporting forecasts, and translating performance data into actionable insights.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen with ability to validate assumptions, reconcile results, identify trends, and communicate risks or value leakage.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with Finance, IT, business leaders, and project teams in a matrixed environment.
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, reporting, and data visualization skills; experience with BI or dashboarding tools preferred.
• Strong communication, organization, and follow-through skills with the ability to prepare executive-ready materials and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in a global, multi-business, matrixed organization with enterprise transformation, digital enablement, process improvement, automation, or operating model modernization initiatives is preferred.
• Experience supporting stage-gate governance, portfolio reporting, initiative prioritization, business case validation, or benefits realization routines is preferred.
• Background in industrial distribution, B2B services, manufacturing, supply chain, shared services, or similarly complex operating environments is preferred.
• Experience using ERP, financial planning, project portfolio management, workflow, or business intelligence tools to support reporting and decision-making is preferred.
• PMP, Lean Six Sigma, CPA, CMA, CFA, data analytics, or change management certification is preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.