Business Transformation Director

The posting, as Butcher Power Products wrote it

Butcher Power Products is a Panelmatic company. This role will work directly with Panelmatic.

Business Transformation Director

About the Role
We are seeking an accomplished Business Transformation Director to lead and drive strategic business transformation initiatives across Panelmatic. This highly visible leadership role is responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the company's Project Management Office (PMO), Stage Gate Process, Project Management standards, business processes, governance frameworks, performance management systems, and digital transformation initiatives.

The Business Transformation Director will serve as the business leader responsible for establishing scalable processes, driving operational excellence, improving project execution discipline, and enabling profitable growth across the organization.

A key responsibility of this role will be the ownership, governance, and continuous improvement of Panelmatic's Stage Gate Process, ensuring all opportunities, proposals, major projects, and strategic initiatives are evaluated, approved, prioritized, and executed through a disciplined and standardized framework.

This leader will manage a small team of PMO professionals, process improvement specialists, and Project Managers while providing strong cross-functional leadership and influence across Commercial, Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Finance, Safety, and Operations.

The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker and execution-focused leader capable of partnering with executive leadership to improve business performance, increase on-time delivery, drive digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, standardize project execution, and enhance project profitability and margins.

This position is based in Houston, Texas, with travel up to 20% as required to support business initiatives, operational reviews, and transformation activities.

The Opportunity
This role is ideal for a leader who enjoys transforming organizations, improving business processes, and driving meaningful change.

As Business Transformation Director, you will have the opportunity to influence how the business operates, improve execution across the value chain, enhance customer satisfaction, increase organizational scalability, and establish a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

You will work directly with executive leadership and functional leaders across the organization to identify improvement opportunities, implement strategic initiatives, and establish the processes, systems, tools, governance structures, and performance frameworks required to support the company's continued growth.

What You'll Do
Stage Gate Governance & Business Growth

• Own and continuously improve Panelmatic's Stage Gate Process governing business opportunities, strategic pursuits, proposals, project execution, and major business initiatives.
• Lead Stage Gate reviews a

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combines strategic thinking with operational execution.
They understand how to build processes, improve organizational effectiveness, and create sustainable systems that enable business growth and execution excellence. They are comfortable working with executive leadership and frontline teams alike, balancing long-term strategy with practical implementation.

They possess exceptional influencing skills and can effectively align diverse functional organizations around common business objectives. They challenge the status quo, identify opportunities for improvement, drive disciplined execution, and ensure organizational accountability.

The ideal candidate is highly self-driven, motivated, and proactive, with a demonstrated track record of identifying improvement opportunities and taking initiative to drive meaningful change. They continually challenge existing ways of working, develop innovative solutions, and lead initiatives that improve Project Management performance, operational efficiency, organizational capability, on-time delivery, and margin performance.

They are equally comfortable leading executive reviews, Stage Gate reviews, portfolio reviews, strategic planning sessions, PMO governance reviews, and business transformation initiatives.

Most importantly, they are passionate about continuous improvement, operational excellence, project execution, customer success, and building an organization capable of sustaining profitable growth while consistently improving on-
time delivery and margin performance.

Location & Travel

• This position is based in Houston, Texas.
• Travel up to 20% is required to support business initiatives, operational reviews, customer engagements, and transformation activities.
• The Business Transformation Director is expected to maintain strong engagement across all functional organizations and operating locations to ensure successful adoption of strategic initiatives, PMO standards, Stage Gate processes, and business improvements.