Job Description

Lyons Magnus leads the food industry with creativity and innovation, crafting top-quality products across all manufacturing phases, from raw materials to marketing. With over 2,000 diverse items for industrial ingredient and food service sectors, Lyons caters to leading restaurant chains nationally and internationally.

At Lyons, our diverse and talented staff is the heart of our organization. We foster a thriving work environment where employees are engaged in shaping both the company's and their own future.

The Director, Business Transformation, is a key leadership role responsible for helping Lyons Magnus translate strategic priorities into measurable business results. This position will lead and support enterprise-wide transformation initiatives focused on improving operational performance, simplifying business processes, increasing organizational effectiveness, supporting M&A integration, and delivering sustainable value creation.

The Director will work across Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, Technology, and other functional teams to identify opportunities, structure initiatives, drive execution, and ensure improvements are embedded into the organization. The successful candidate will combine strong business acumen, analytical capability, project leadership, and change-management skills with a hands-on approach to execution.

Pay Range $140,000–$175,000 + Bonus

Hours: 8:00am–5:00pm

Schedule Monday–Friday

Location Fresno, CA

Travel Requirements: 50%

Work environment available In Office

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Enterprise Transformation Execution

• Partner with executive and functional leadership to help define, prioritize, and execute the company's enterprise transformation roadmap.
• Translate strategic priorities into clearly defined initiatives with measurable objectives, milestones, ownership, resource requirements, and expected financial or operational benefits.
• Evaluate and prioritize transformation opportunities based on strategic importance, financial impact, organizational capacity, and execution risk.
• Drive initiatives from initial opportunity identification and business case development through implementation and benefit realization.
• Maintain visibility across the overall transformation portfolio and help leadership allocate resources to the highest-value opportunities.

Cross-Functional Process Improvement

• Partner with leaders across Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, Technology, and other functions to identify and eliminate process inefficiencies.
• Lead structured assessments of business processes, organizational handoffs, systems, data, and workflows to identify opportunities for simplification and improvement.
• Facilitate cross-functional teams to redesign processes, clarify accountability, eliminate unnecessary work, and improve speed and execution.
• Apply continuous improvement, Lean, root-cause analysis, and other structured problem-solving methodologies where appropriate.
• Develop solutions that balance process improvement, technology enablement, organizational capability, and practical implementation requirements.

Program & Project Leadership

• Establish disciplined governance for major transformation programs, including project plans, milestones, ownership, decision rights, and reporting.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple business functions, locations, and stakeholders.
• Develop clear workplans and maintain accountability for deliverables, timelines, and business outcomes.
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and barriers to execution and work with leadership to resolve them.
• Provide concise, fact-based reporting to executive leadership on progress, financial impact, risks, and decisions required.
• Build repeatable project and transformation-management disciplines that can be leveraged across the organization.

Performance Management & Value Creation

• Develop practical KPIs, dashboards, and performance-management tools that provide visibility into transformation progress and business performance.
• Establish baselines, targets, and benefit-tracking methodologies for transformation initiatives.
• Partner with Finance and functional leaders to validate and track value creation, including:

- Cost savings and cost avoidance

- Productivity improvements

- Margin expansion

- Service and customer-performance improvements

- Working-capital improvements

- Capacity and throughput improvements

• Ensure benefits are measurable, financially grounded, and sustainable.
• Identify performance gaps and work with initiative owners to develop corrective actions.

M&A Integration & Synergy Realization

• Partner with executive leadership and functional teams to plan and execute the integration of acquired businesses into Lyons Magnus.
• Develop and manage comprehensive integration plans covering key functional workstreams, milestones, dependencies, risks, and ownership.
• Establish integration governance, including workstream leadership, reporting cadence, decision-making processes, and executive-level progress reporting.
• Translate acquisition assumptions and identified opportunities into executable synergy initiatives with clear owners, timing, investment requirements, and financial targets.
• Partner with Finance and functional leaders to establish synergy baselines and track realized benefits against acquisition and integration objectives.
• Coordinate cross-functional integration activities across areas such as Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, Technology, Human Resources, Procurement, and other corporate functions.
• Identify opportunities to leverage Lyons Magnus capabilities, scale, systems, manufacturing network, supply chain, and organizational resources across acquired businesses.
• Balance the pace of integration with the need to maintain business continuity, customer service, employee engagement, and the performance of the acquired business.
• Identify integration risks and barriers early and escalate issues requiring executive decisions.
• Support post-integration reviews to capture lessons learned and continuously improve Lyons Magnus's M&A integration capabilities and playbook.

Change Management & Organizational Adoption

• Build alignment among executive leadership, functional leaders, and frontline teams around transformation priorities and expected outcomes.
• Clearly communicate the rationale for change, expected benefits, implementation approach, and individual responsibilities.
• Identify organizational and behavioral barriers that could prevent successful implementation.
• Develop practical change-management and communication plans appropriate to the scale and complexity of each initiative.
• Ensure new processes, systems, tools, and ways of working are effectively implemented, adopted, and sustained.
• Help build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and fact-based decision-making.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect operational improvements to financial performance.
• Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, analyze data, identify root causes, and develop practical solutions.
• Strong project and program-management capabilities with an emphasis on execution and accountability.
• Ability to influence across functions and organizational levels without relying solely on direct authority.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and business-intelligence/reporting tools.
• Working knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or similar process-improvement methodologies.
• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely to executive and operational audiences.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing priorities.
• Hands-on, results-oriented leadership style with a willingness to move between strategic analysis and detailed execution.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in business transformation, operations, continuous improvement, strategy, management consulting, program management, M&A integration, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with measurable financial and operational results.
• Experience developing business cases, financial analyses, KPIs, and benefit-tracking methodologies.
• Experience working directly with senior executives and functional leadership teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or other advanced degree.
• Experience supporting M&A integration, synergy realization, or major business integrations.
• Experience in food and beverage, manufacturing, consumer products, or another operationally intensive environment.

Additional InformationOur compensation program is designed to attract, motivate, and retain the very best people. Lyons Magnus offers a comprehensive benefits plan that include: Health, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Sec. 125, 401(k) plan, and more. If you meet these requirements and are eager to join a dynamic company poised for further growth, please respond with your cover letter, and salary requirements.To learn more about Lyons Magnus, LLC its products and core values, visit www.lyonsmagnus.com or follow us on Instagram or LinkedInLyons Magnus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and with opportunities for advancement. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories.*This organization participates in E-Verify.