LYBOM Transformation Leader

As part of LYB's Operating Model (LYBOM) transformation, theLYB Operating Model TransformationLeaderplays a critical role in ensuring coordination, integration, and alignment across six enterprise tracks: Hire to Retire (H2R), Plan to Perform (P2P), Record to Report (R2R), Lead to Cash (L2C), Demand to Supply (D2S), and Source to Pay (S2P). These tracks form the backbone of LYB's future-state enterprise model, embedding standardized end-to-end processes, digital enablement, and scalable service delivery across functions.

The role provides the connective tissue between track leaders, program management, and functional stakeholders, ensuring that activities within and across tracks are executed in a disciplined, synchronized manner. By overseeing cross-track dependencies, governance, and risk management, theLYB Operating Model TransformationLeaderensures that workstreams move forward in alignment with LYBOM's transformation agenda, ERP deployment milestones, and broader digital transformation initiatives.

This position is central to harmonizing global processes, integrating technology and people readiness, and enabling a sustainable transition to the new OM.TheLYB Operating Model TransformationLeaderensures that LYB's transformation balances operational excellence with cultural and organizational change.

Key to the role is driving cross-track visibility and accountability: ensuring clear reporting on progress, risks, and KPIs, preparing leadership updates, and enablingtimelydecision-making across complex and interdependent initiatives. The role also drives adoption of standardized methodologies, instills governance discipline, and fosters collaboration across functions, geographies, and levels of the organization.

Ultimately, theLYB Operating Model TransformationLeadersupports the Sr. Program Director andservesas a critical enabler of the LYB enterprise transformation journey, helping to translate strategy into coordinated execution, bridging people, process, and technology, and ensuring that value realization from the transformation is captured consistently across all tracks.

This leader will need to exude passion for the transformation efforts through instilling a disciplined approach in identifying and capturing value opportunities, challenging the status quo to drive optimized process and operating model outcomes, and influencing the broader organization to drive the right decisions and pace of change in achieving the future enterprise operating model design.

Cross-Track Coordination and Governance

• Maintain oversight and integration of program activities across all six enterprise tracks, ensuring alignment with the overall transformation roadmap
• Establish governance routines for cross-track dependencies, risks, and decisions, drawing from prior experience managing multi-country transformations
• Ensure consistent progress tracking, KPI reporting, and value realization across all tracks

Program and Implementation Support

• Support the Sr. Program Director in execution of the operating model transformation agenda, embedding proven methodologies from prior large-scale HR and ERP-enabled transitions
• Facilitate integration of in-flight initiatives into the LYBOM program and ensure sequencing across functions and geographies
• Develop and maintain cross-track implementation calendars, highlighting dependencies and critical milestones

Risk and Issue Management

• Anticipate and address risks related to people, process, and technology transitions, leveraging expertise from prior payroll, workforce administration, and ERP deployment programs
• Collaborate with track leads to implement risk mitigation strategies and safeguard continuity of delivery

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

• Engage track leads, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, IT, Procurement, Manufacturing and regional business stakeholders to ensure cross-functional alignment
• Prepare executive-level dashboards and communications that synthesize cross-track progress and risks into actionable insights
• Build trusted relationships across global teams to drive alignment and accountability

Continuous Improvement and Value Delivery

• Promote standardization, best practices, and continuous improvement across tracks
• Partner with Finance and leadership to ensure business case value delivery and tracking across workstreams
• Embed operational excellence and a culture of accountability across delivery teams

In order to be successful in this role, the LYB Operating Model Transformation Program Leader will need to exhibit advanced program management strategies, strong business partnership and collaboration skills, adeptness in thinking outside the box, comfort in dealing with ambiguity, the ability to influence outside direct reporting lines at all levels in the organization, and resilience in the face of adversity.

Specific Qualifications for this role include:

• Business or relevant four year degree with 15 years of broad strategy, operations and org design experience in large organizations
• Track record - Proven track record supporting enterprise-wide transformations including process standardization, simplification, technology implementations, ways of working transformations and ERP/SAP deployments.
• Enterprise leadership - Excellent leadership skills with the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop a high-performing team, whether through direct or indirect management
• Continuous improvement mindset- Commitment to refining and improving processes for greater efficiency
• Project management expertise - Proven ability to manage complex, large-scale transformation projects
• Effective synthesis and coordination - Adept at drawing insights on interdependencies across different processes, organizations, and programs; ability to quickly acquire appropriate knowledge of inflight programs for facilitating prioritization decisions
• Executive communication - Clear communicator that can effectively articulate messages for various levels of audience and across multiple functions
• Functional topic expertise - Possesses certain area(s) of expertise pertinent to the operating model scope, especially core corporate functions including HR, Supply Chain, Finance, and Procurement
• Process expertise - Strong understanding and experiences with E2E functions and touchpoints across the enterprise value chain
• Change catalyst - Experience in driving major programs or initiatives and ability to drive change with appropriate change management strategy

Competencies:

• Fosters collaboration across functions and geographies
• Cultivates innovation and embeds continuous improvement
• Displays resilience, courage, and decisive leadership
• Drives disciplined results and accountability in complex transformations
• Builds trust and alignment across senior leadership and global team