Sr. Director, Transformation Governance

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The Strategy & Planning Community encompasses Strategic Planning, Transformation Execution, Analytics & Insights, and Property Strategy. The Transformation Execution team is a new team that we are standing up to oversee execution of our multi-year strategic transformation. The Transformation Execution Team will build out the program, project and change management methodology and tools, drive a robust and rigorous planning process, and coordinate activities with leaders and teams across the organization. The Transformation Execution team will provide oversight of the most critical initiatives to ensure a successfully executed transformation 

 

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The Senior Director of Transformation Governance is accountable for defining, governing, and continuously improving the methodologies, standards, tools, and reporting practices that ensure disciplined, consistent execution of the transformation portfolio. This role is the steward of how the transformation portfolio operates—ensuring clarity, transparency, accountability, and alignment across all initiatives and workstreams. 

 

In addition to methodology and reporting, this leader plays a critical role in portfolio governance, including initiative intake, prioritization facilitation, and communicating sequencing and approval decisions across stakeholders. 

Essential Responsibilities

Establish standards, methodology and tools  

• Define and enforce transformation execution standards and methods 
• Design and support consistent adoption of customized tools (e.g., initiative charters, business cases, roadmaps); refine as needed based on industry best-practices & internal feedback 
• Define key tracking and reporting forums, associated cadences, participants, and tools to support exception-based reporting and transparency 
• Define consistent standards for reporting at initiative, workstream and transformation levels  
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date initiative dashboards in coordination with Strategy team 
• Consolidate initiative-level reports into workstream and transformation-level reports, highlighting key issues, common risk themes and mitigation strategies, in consultation with Program Delivery team 

Portfolio Governance & Prioritization 

• Facilitate the transformation portfolio prioritization process, ensuring leaders have the data, criteria, and frameworks needed to make informed decisions.  Portfolio prioritization should work to integrate cross team capacity assessments, ensuring recommendations reflect realistic delivery bandwidth across teams, communities, and workstreams. 
• Lead or support initiative intake reviews, ensuring submissions meet transformation governance standards and include clear problem statements, value propositions, resourcing requirements, and dependencies. 
• Coordinate cross-functional assessment of new initiative proposals, ensuring alignment to strategic goals and capacity constraints. Communicate portfolio sequencing, approval decisions, and rationale to stakeholders across the organization in clear, actionable formats. 
• Maintain a consolidated, transparent view of the transformation portfolio, including approved, pending, and deprioritized initiatives. 
• Partner with Leadership Decision Makers, Finance, Strategy, and Program Delivery to ensure alignment between prior