Senior Value Creation Program Manager

QAD is building a Value Creation Office (VCO) to drive enterprise-wide initiatives across revenue acceleration, efficiency, delivery model, and corporate development. We are seeking a senior Value Creation Program Manager to (1) create and run the Transformation Office, and (2) support execution of special projects - from scoping and problem-structuring to driving the cross-functional execution. You will be the VP’s right hand on high-priority work.

What You’ll Do

1. Stand up the transformation office: build bankable plan of initiatives with business cases, milestones, KPIs, owners. Stand up transformation governance. Develop performance management (tracking, escalations).

2. Lead special projects in value-creating plan: assess, scope, structure, and drive select high-value initiatives. Create clear workplans, pressure-test hypotheses, and land recommendations, mobilize organization to drive operational outcomes.

3. Build business cases. Size benefits and costs, model scenarios and sensitivities, and translate unit economics into credible executive recommendations

4. Executive presentation: prepare materials for SteerCos, board meetings, and leadership reviews in relation to VCP. Prepare and support leading transformation office meetings. Own leadership cadence with select functional leaders.

5. Drive cross-functional execution. Coordinate Sales, Marketing, CS, Finance, Product, CloudOps, HR, and Partners; unblock issues; escalate crisp, options-based decisions.

6. Capability building. Coach workstream leads on planning, metrics, and storytelling; help harden VCO ways of working.

60-90 Day Outcomes (what “good” looks like) – Transformation office

1. Operationalization of VCP: top 30-50 initiatives identified; owners mapped; business cases, KPIs, milestones, and risk defined on the initiative level

2. VCP operating system live: VCP stand-ups, SteerCos, performance management in place

3. Finance linkage: Benefits logic and assumptions aligned with FP&A; initiative business-case templates ready for financial forecast inputs.