The Vice President, Transformation is accountable for driving execution of URUS' highest-priority enterprise initiatives, including delivery of the URUS 2030 strategy and successful M&A integrations. This role is responsible for ensuring strategy translates into measurable business results.
Reporting to the Chief Integration Officer, the VP serves as the central leader for enterprise execution, setting clear standards for how work gets done across URUS. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, operations, and change, aligning executive leadership, strengthening execution discipline, and ensuring accountability across complex, cross-functional initiatives.
While grounded in strong program management principles, this role moves beyond traditional PMO models. The VP defines a modern, fit-for-purpose approach to execution, one that is practical, scalable, and focused on outcomes rather than process.
The VP leads a federated model of execution, with dotted-line leadership of project and program managers across URUS, establishing consistent ways of working, strengthening delivery capability, and enabling more predictable, high-quality execution.
This role operates seamlessly from the executive level to execution on the ground, leading enterprise narratives, aligning stakeholders, and directly engaging in critical initiatives where needed to ensure success.
Enterprise Strategy Execution
Own enterprise-level orchestration of the URUS 2030 strategy, ensuring priorities are translated into coordinated, actionable programs across brands, functions, and regions.
Act as the central point of integration across initiatives, ensuring alignment, resolving conflicts, and maintaining focus on enterprise priorities.
Ensure alignment between Strategy 2030, business planning cycles, and enterprise initiative portfolio, including prioritization and sequencing of work
M&A Integration Leadership
Lead end-to-end planning and execution of post-merger integrations across people, operations, technology, and governance.
Enterprise Program Governance & Execution Disciplineย
Define and implement a clear, consistent governance model for enterprise initiatives, including decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability structures aligned to RACI expectations.
Establish enterprise standards for program management, including planning, risk management, dependency tracking, and reporting.
Project & Program Management Leadership (Dotted-Line)ย
Establish and embed a harmonized approach to project and program management, including tools, templates, cadence, and expectations.
Leadership Influence & Change Enablementย
Develop clear, compelling narratives that articulate the "why," "what," and "how" of transformation initiatives.
Value Realization & Continuous Improvementย ย ย
Define success measures for all major initiatives, including financial, operational, and strategic outcomes.
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, Engineering, Technology, or a related field required.
Executive-level experience leading enterprise transformations, large-scale programs, or strategy execution in a global, matrixed organization.
As a holding company with cooperative and private ownership, URUS is a family of businesses at the heart of the dairy and beef industry - Alta Genetics, GENEX, Genetics Australia, Leachman Cattle, Jetstream, PEAK, SCCL, Trans Ova Genetics and VAS.ย Each organization has its unique identity, products, and services. These companies work globally to provide cutting-edge dairy and beef genetics, customized reproductive services to maximize conceptions, dairy management information to take producers to the frontline of progressive dairy farming, and an array of products and services to help bovines reach their full genetic potential. URUS has 9 brands in 17 retail countries and employs nearly 2,800 people globally.