Director, Business Transformation

Role summary

Director, Business Transformation is a role at Lyons Magnus LLC in Fresno, California, United States (on-site). Posted 2026-08-28. Experience level: 10+.

Job title

Director, Business Transformation

Company

Lyons Magnus LLC

Location

Fresno, California, United States

Work arrangement

on-site

Category

Hospitality

Experience level

10+

Date posted

2026-08-28

Job description

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, cus