Director of Transformation

Job Type

Full time

PetSafe Brands, formerly known as Radio Systems Corporation, is headquartered in Knoxville, TN. It has been named “The Marble City” and "Scruffy City", names we have embraced for our unique charm. We are the home of 1982 World’s Fair and we boast of 21 craft breweries around the city (click here for the Ale Trail). If you like to hike or camp, visit the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. Take your pick of outdoor activities from walking, tubing, running, or biking in our Urban Wilderness. Knox County has an amazing public-school system, no state income tax, low property taxes and cost of living. We host Music and Shakespeare on the Square as well as Family Movie Nights on the Square during the summer months in downtown Knoxville.

Our Company: PetSafe Brands is the world leader in pet products through our family of brands:Pet Safe® Brand, Sport DOG® Brand, Invisible Fence® Brand, Kurgo and Premier Pet. Pet Safe® Brand makes every product from leashes and harnesses to water fountains and and litter boxes. We have an ambitious goal of touching over 21 million pets, people, and communities around the world each year. We serve a broad range of pet owners from providing the hunter the best gear for a successful hunt to accommodating the “Not-So-Crazy Cat Lady” with all the entertaining toys and effective solutions she could ever imagine. We do this by creating a culture of enthusiasm, resilience, adaptability, and teamwork every day in the office. We work hard to be our community’s employer of choice as we all live our purpose: We exist to unleash freedom for pet parents by keeping their pets happy, healthy and safe.

Summary Of Position

• *This is a Long-Term Contract Position (12+ Months)**

A core member of the Transformation Office, the Director of Transformation position will be responsible for driving the process, tools, measurement, and support of the “Tailwind” transformation. They will partner with the Chief Transformation Officer, Workstream Sponsors and Leaders, Initiative Owners, Finance team, and outside partners to drive disciplined delivery of the transformation process and results. They own the performance management systems and tools, calendar, key meetings, training and onboarding, measurement and reporting, and insights / problem solving to deliver sustained transformational results to the business. This transformation is early in the implementation phase, having completed initial scoping and planning in Fall 2025.

Responsibilities

Driving Transformation Delivery and Performance Infrastructure

• Ensure flawless and timely preparation of all materials for the weekly TO cadence, including TO meetings, Leadership Team Steering Committees, and briefing meetings
• Drive decisions and actions, not discussions—performance-manage Workstream Leaders and Initiative Owners to meet deadlines with no lateness or under-delivery
• Maintain a clear understanding of the initiative pipeline and proactively identify and address potential roadblocks
• Leverage organizational knowledge to engage the right individuals to eliminate roadblocks and ensure progress
• Support weekly TO meetings by tracking actions, driving discussions, and coordinating logistics

Driving Progress and Problem Solving

• Bring structure, data, and insights to business problems to enable effective decision-making
• Act as a problem-solving partner for the business, helping identify new initiatives and generate greater impact, faster
• Support initiative owners in building, navigating, and delivering transformation initiatives
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to over-deliver or add value to the overall transformation

Providing Program Performance Transparency and Escalating Decisions to Management

• Ensure program performance transparency by validating and consolidating reporting on transformation results, forecasts, and business cases
• Escalate key decisions and exceptions to the management team to ensure timely resolution
• Present and support the preparation of program updates during key stakeholder meetings, including Leadership Team and Board discussions
• Prepare senior leadership with transformation talking points for management updates and internal communications

Distilling Insights and Linking Transformation to Core Business

• Partner with the finance team to bridge monthly transformation results to the company’s P&L, ensuring alignment with financial objectives
• Monitor and consolidate transformation results, forecasts, and business cases to provide actionable insights
• Collaborate with functional teams to embed transformation initiatives into core business processes, ensuring sustainability and long-term impact
• Coordinate the linkage of transformation efforts to broader business strategies, ensuring alignment with organizational goals

Owning WAVE and Championing Its Use Across the Transformation

• Use WAVE to track the progress of initiatives through the pipeline at every stage, ensuring accurate and up-to-date reporting
• Become an expert in WAVE functionality for both day-to-day initiative management and long-term tool capabilities
• Schedule and deliver WAVE training sessions to users, ensuring consistent and effective adoption across the organization
• Issue standard and ad hoc reports from WAVE and conduct analysis as required to support decision-making and performance tracking

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, finance, or transformation delivery roles
• Strong experience driving large comprehensive growth strategy deployment in small to medium sized businesses
• Consumer-facing business experience; preferably in CPG or retail
• Proven track record of delivering complex cross-functional initiatives
• Strong analytics capabilities, including financial statement, ROI, and project business case development
• Comfortable navigating executive-level decisions and boardroom strategy
• Experience managing prioritization and sequencing of technology investment and enablement
• Experience working with private equity stakeholders, including managing relationships, aligning with value creation plans, and communicating strategic messages

Skills And Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Able to define long-term vision and align it to business goals and execution
• Quality-Driven: Holds teams accountable for excellence in plans and execution
• Cross-Functional Leader: Skilled in navigating and influencing across Finance, NRM, Category, IT, Sales, and Marketing
• Commercial Mindset: Understands product P&L, pricing levers, and go-to-market dynamics
• Communication: Distills complex product strategy into clear, inspiring direction
• Data-Informed: Drives decisions through metrics, testing, and usage analytics

Relationships

• This position reports to the Chief Transformation Officer
• Partner closely with the Sales, Marketing, Finance, IT, Operations, and Customer Support leaders
• As needed, collaborates with private equity stakeholders to ensure alignment with our strategic objectives and performance expectations
• Potential to lead one or more analysts and/or project manager

Benefits

Working for PetSafe Brands definitely has its benefits. We offer a collaborative and creative team-oriented work environment where we encourage you to take risks to learn and grow! We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K match. In addition we offer a rich wellness program which includes an onsite health clinic, workout facility and of course, we encourage you to bring your dog to work, which is our whole reason for what we do!

PetSafe Brands is dedicated to offering equal employment opportunity for all teammates and fostering a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. At PetSafe Brand, our teammates are our greatest strength. We strive to build a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve by hiring great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression and talent. We recruit and reward teammates based on capability and performance and together we are building a culture that welcomes all dimensions of an individual’s identity including race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, educational background, national origin or ancestry, religion, veteran status, or physical ability. We embrace these differences and the unique contributions each teammate brings not just because it is the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. While we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging, we recognize that we still have more work to do and a lot more to learn.