Senior Director Enterprise Transformation

About the job

A Day in the Life:

Hertz is undertaking a significant enterprise transformation to reshape its business model, operating structure, cost base, and capabilities. Execution requires coordinating complex initiatives across business platforms, functions, and geographies while maintaining ongoing operational performance.

The Enterprise Transformation Sr Director sits within the Strategy & Execution Office in the Office of the CEO and owns the end-to-end orchestration of enterprise-critical transformation initiatives.

The role translates complex strategic objectives into executable plans and measurable outcomes. Initiatives may involve operating-model redesign, organizational restructuring, cost transformation, capability building, business integration or separation, and significant cross-functional dependencies.

The Sr Director independently structures ambiguous problems, develops business cases, establishes integrated workplans, mobilizes functional leaders, resolves execution barriers, challenges assumptions, and manages initiatives through implementation and value realization.

What You’ll Do:

Lead Enterprise Transformation Initiatives

• Own end-to-end execution of complex transformation initiatives, from strategic problem definition and business-case development through implementation and value realization.

• Develop integrated transformation plans covering workstream scope, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, decision points, accountable owners, and financial outcomes.

• Mobilize cross-functional teams across business platforms and corporate functions, often without direct reporting authority.

• Proactively identify and resolve execution barriers, resource constraints, and competing priorities.

• Coordinate complex transitions while maintaining business continuity and operational performance.

Drive Operating Model & Organizational Change

• Conduct current-state assessments and develop future-state operating-model recommendations, including organizational structures, capabilities, decision rights, and processes.

• Translate strategic designs into executable transition plans covering organizational changes, technology, resources, and new ways of working.

• Support cost-base redesign, functional cost analysis, organizational sizing, and restructuring initiatives.

• Identify capability gaps, stranded-cost exposure, and operational dependencies that affect transformation economics.

• Partner with functional leaders to implement new operating models and establish sustainable performance mechanisms.

Support Integration, Separation & Restructuring

• Lead or support complex workstreams associated with post-merger integration, business separation, carve-outs, and restructuring.

• Develop functional transition plans, Day 1 readiness requirements, implementation milestones, and post-close stabilization plans.

• Identify operational, financial, technology, organizational, and contractual entanglements requiring resolution.

• Coordinate functional teams and external advisors on transition services, systems migration, organizational changes, and business continuity.

• Support synergy capture, stranded-cost mitigation, standalone cost analysis, and transaction-related value realization.

Drive Financial Value Realization

• Develop and pressure-test transformation business cases, financial assumptions, and investment requirements.

• Establish financial baselines and quantify expected EBITDA, cash flow, cost, revenue, and operational impacts.

• Partner with Finance and business owners to track financial commitments through realized performance.

• Evaluate tradeoffs involving sequencing, capital requirements, transition costs, operational risk, and enterprise value.

• Identify value leakage and develop corrective actions when expected benefits are at risk.

Accelerate Decisions & Execution

• Apply hypothesis-driven problem-solving to complex strategic and operational challenges.

• Structure executive decisions through clear alternatives, quantified tradeoffs, and recommendations.

• Anticipate critical-path risks and resolve cross-functional dependencies before they impede execution.

• Challenge assumptions and drive stakeholder alignment when organizational friction threatens outcomes.

• Develop concise, decision-oriented executive materials and transformation reviews.

Build Transformation Discipline

• Establish initiative-level governance, performance measures, ownership, and execution standards.

• Maintain integrated visibility into workstream progress, dependencies, financial benefits, and execution risks.

• Coordinate internal teams and external advisors to ensure effective implementation and knowledge transfer.

• Develop repeatable transformation tools, playbooks, and operating mechanisms that strengthen internal execution capabilities.

What We’re Looking For:

Experience

• 12+ years of experience in management consulting, enterprise transformation, corporate strategy, operations, or transaction-related transformation.

• Demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-functional transformation workstreams from strategy through implementation, with measurable financial or operational impact.

• Experience structuring ambiguous business problems, developing strategic recommendations, and translating them into executable plans.

• Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities, including business cases, cost structures, scenario analysis, and value-capture tracking.

• Experience with operating-model redesign, organizational restructuring, cost transformation, or major operational change.

• Ability to manage complex critical paths, functional interdependencies, and competing stakeholder priorities.

• Proven ability to influence senior executives and drive accountability without direct authority.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong executive communication, structured problem-solving, and judgment under pressure.

• Ownership mentality and accountability from problem definition through value realization.

• Ability to bring clarity and direction to complex, ambiguous problems.

• Financial accountability and understanding of the economics behind transformation decisions.

• Operator mindset with the ability to move from strategic analysis into implementation detail.

• Influence without authority, bias toward action, adaptability, and resilience.

Preferred

• Former engagement manager or project leader at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or equivalent strategy consulting or transformation experience.

• Experience with post-merger integration, business separation, carve-outs, restructuring, or transaction-related transformation.

• Familiarity with Day 1 readiness, functional separation planning, TSA requirements, and post-close transition management.

• Experience with synergy capture, stranded-cost analysis, organizational cost restructuring, or value-creation programs.

• Background in asset-intensive, multi-geography, consumer-facing, or operationally complex businesses.

• Experience leveraging AI, automation, and advanced analytics to improve transformation effectiveness.

What Success Looks Like:

• Complex transformation initiatives achieve measurable financial and operational outcomes.

• Cross-functional teams execute against integrated plans with clear ownership and accountability.

• Critical dependencies, organizational constraints, and execution risks are proactively resolved.

• Operating-model changes and business transitions are implemented without material disruption.

• Executive decisions are accelerated through rigorous analysis and clear recommendations.

What’s In It For You:

Salary starts at $200,000

• Up to 40% off the base rate of any standard Hertz Rental

• Paid Time Off

• Medical, Dental & Vision plan options

• Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching

• Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance

• Employee Assistance Program for employees & family

• Educational Reimbursement & Discounts

• Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness

• Perks & Discounts - Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more

About Us

The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.

US EEO STATEMENT

At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture – and our success and reputation as a company.

Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique.

EOE, including disability/veteran

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 43969
• Job Category: Business Development
• Posting Date: 2026-10-26
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: 780 McDonnell Rd, San Francisco, CA, 94128, US ()
• Remote: No