Director Business Transformation Office

Komatsu is an indispensable partner to the construction, mining, forestry, forklift, and industrial machinery markets, maximizing value for customers through innovative solutions. With a diverse line of products supported by our advanced IoT technologies, regional distribution channels, and a global service network, we tap into the power of data and technology to enhance safety and productivity while optimizing performance. Komatsu supports a myriad of markets, including housing, infrastructure, water, pipeline, minerals, automobile, aerospace, electronics, and medical, through its many brands and subsidiaries, including Joy, P&H, Montabert, Modular Mining Systems, Hensley Industries, NTC, and Gigaphoton.

We’re more than a company, and we’re a community of passionate, creative professionals striving toward a shared vision: revolutionizing the way the mining industry operates. With a presence stretching from Johannesburg to Vancouver, Sydney to Lima, you are part of a global brand that supports creativity, fosters innovation, and encourages you to think big, share ideas and be yourself. 

The Company

Job Purpose

The Director, Business Transformation Office (BTO) will be responsible for overseeing and driving key strategic initiatives across the organization. This role requires a dynamic leader with a strong background in change management, business transformation, and project management/oversight. The Director will be instrumental in ensuring the successful execution of major programs and initiatives, ensuring acceptance and adoption across the organization fostering a culture of accountability, and aligning business processes with strategic goals.

Travel Requirements

• 30% both domestic and international 

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Take carriage of the business transformation journey for MTS that had been started with EY.  Provide ongoing oversight and change management services for cross-divisional initiatives identified in this program, including the continuation of the brand re-alignment program and others. 

Provide overall program and change management for large, cross functional transformation initiatives including:

• Integration activities related to future M&A activity 
• Driving new products through the new MTS Gate Process
• Be a key driver in facilitating and pushing the Early Adopter Program forward 
• Track, trend and provide status updates on MTS’ Mid-Term Management Plan (MTMP)
• Continually update the MTS business transformation journey / roadmap – adding new initiatives as they become needed.
• Work with Internal Comms to continually provide effective means of communicating changes to the organization such that they feel engaged and empowered to drive the transformation forward.

This team will also track and report progress on several programs that may have owners assigned from other departments.  This team may be responsible to provide change management services for these projects. Examples include:

• Project Monarch (to be owned by Finance and IT)

This role and the small team reporting to it, will be vital to drive change and complete our transformation.  For clarity, this BTO may only be needed for the next 1-2 MTMP cycles (3-6 years).  A key outcome for this team is to provide guidance on upskilling the organization so that once the transition to the ecosystem strategy is achieved, the organization is self-reliant and self-propagating.  This will need to be reviewed periodically by the MTS Executive Leadership Team.  As such, a key accountability for the BTO Director will be upskilling team members and ensuring effective career paths exist to transition them back into the business in permanent, value-adding roles.

Required Skills

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Project Management or related field
• 10-15 years of mining and/or technology business experience
• 5-years of experience in product management, product development, or sales and marketing of customized mining technology equipment is required
• Strong business acumen, global mindset, ability to do strategic planning and be hands-on to execute
• Strong interpersonal skills, facilitator and influencer
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills with senior customers
• Ability to communicate effectively with diver