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Director, Business Transformation

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4 Locations
136K-252K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
4 Locations
136K-252K Annually
Senior level
Lead strategic initiatives for business transformation, driving planning and execution in collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance operations and customer service.
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We are seeking a high-impact, high-velocity Director of Business Transformation to join the Legal Professionals Transformation Office and lead a critical pillar within our Growth Transformation Program—a multi-year transformation program designed to accelerate growth and modernize how we operate and serve customers—across our entire Legal Professional business.

This role is ideal for a strategic operator and agile program leader who thrives in complex, fast-moving environments. You’ll be responsible for driving the strategy, planning, and execution of high-priority initiatives in collaboration with cross-functional teams. This is a high-visibility role with direct exposure to senior leaders and a unique opportunity to help shape the future state of our business. 

 

About the Role

In this role as Director, Business Transformation, you will

  • Lead the strategy, structure, and delivery of transformational initiatives aligned to the prgram's strategic objectives

  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define success metrics, operational plans, and key milestones

  • Facilitate workshops and discovery sessions to identify current-state pain points, design future-state solutions, and guide decision-making

  • Translate strategy into actionable implementation roadmaps; manage risks, interdependencies, and resourcing across workstreams

  • Champion agile ways of working, fostering a test-and-learn mindset and continuous improvement across teams

  • Partner with functions such as Operations and Technology, Commercial Excellence, Data and Analytics, Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success to ensure alignment and execution

  • Develop and deliver executive-level communications, including status updates, SteerCo materials, and outcome reporting

  • Coordinate change management and communication strategies with Change Lead to support adoption and sustainment of new processes and models

About You

You're a fit for the Director, Business Transformation role if your background includes

  • 5+ years of experience in business transformation, program delivery, strategy execution, or operational leadership—ideally in SaaS or B2B enterprise environments

  • Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives that deliver measurable business impact

  • Strong working knowledge of systems, operations, or technical architecture is a plus—especially experience navigating cross-functional dependencies between platforms, data flows, and enterprise tools

  • Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to connect high-level objectives to day-to-day execution

  • Experience applying agile frameworks (e.g., scrum, Kanban, lean, OKRs) to drive clarity, speed, and value delivery

  • Outstanding facilitation and collaboration skills, including the ability to align diverse stakeholders and navigate ambiguity

  • Executive presence and strong communication skills, both written and verbal

  • Comfortable operating in a matrixed organization with evolving priorities and limited structure

  • Familiarity with transformation technologies and platforms such as Salesforce, Gainsight, Gong, or agile collaboration tools (e.g., Miro, MS Planner, Teams) is highly desired

  • Background in customer experience, GTM strategy, organizational design, or operational excellence is a plus

  • MBA or other advanced degree is an asset

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What’s in it For You?

  • Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

  • Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

  • Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

  • Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

  • Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $135,800 - $252,200. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

This job posting will close 09/22/2025.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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