Job DescriptionKey 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.
About the Team At Samuel, meeting our customer needs is our top priority. With cost-effective distribution and just-in-time delivery of metals and industrial products across North America, we ensure our customers get exactly what they need - any time, anywhere and from a single source. Our focus on value-added processing services and innovative supply chain solutions allow us to work closely with our customers, ensuring their products are on the market on time. Thanks to our integrated network of products and services supported by our in-house technical leaders and market experts, we are uniquely positioned to become your supplier of choice.
