Vice President, Business Transformation

Compass Group North America; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A global foodservice and support services company is seeking a Vice President, Business Transformation to drive innovation and organizational change. This role involves providing strategic leadership, fostering collaboration, and ensuring data-driven decision-making to enhance efficiency and growth. The ideal candidate will connect strategy with execution, promoting a culture of continuous improvement across teams. Preferred candidates will have extensive experience in leading transformational initiatives within complex environments. Applications are encouraged from diverse backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in leading transformation and organizational change.
• Ability to connect strategy, people, and execution.
• Evidence-based decision-making skills and operational grounding.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership across Business Transformation.
• Create conditions for organizational alignment and scaling impact.
• Lead initiatives fostering innovation and continuous improvement.
• Enhance organizational agility and efficiency.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Collaboration

Change management

Data-driven decision making

Operational execution

Job description

You might not know our name, but you know where we are. That’s because Compass Group Canada is part of a global foodservice and support services company that’s the 6th largest employer in the world, with 625,000 employees.

You’ll find us in schools, colleges, hospitals, office buildings, senior living communities, tourist attractions, sports venues, remote camps and military installations and more. We’re in all major cities, at remote work sites and everywhere in between – doing business in Canada and 50+ other countries where you can learn and grow. Join us now and point your career forward!

Job Summary

Are you ready to shape the future of an organization built on innovation, insight and impact? As Vice President, Business Transformation, you will be the catalyst driving change and forward momentum across the enterprise. This is not about incremental improvement — it’s about accelerating how we innovate, build, and deliver value for our clients, our people and our planet.

Now, if you were to come on board as theVice President, Business Transformation, we’d ask you to do the following for us:

• Set the Vision and Align the Team: Provide strategic leadership and direction across Business Transformation, ensuring that Innovation, Sustainability, and Project Management & Construction and Design functions are unified.
• Empower Functional Excellence: Partner with the strong leaders already driving these functions. Create the conditions, resources, and organizational alignment they need to scale impact and deliver results efficiently.
• Accelerate Innovation and Growth: Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement that fuels new opportunities for customer and business growth.
• Lead Change and Drive Organizational Efficiency: Guide the enterprise through transformation and streamline structures, processes, and ways of working to enhance agility, speed, and impact across the organization.
• Leverage Data for Strategic Impact: Ensure that decision‑making across the organization is guided by data and insight.
• Embed Sustainability and Purpose: Strengthen our commitment to responsible growth, ensuring alignment with corporate purpose and long-term value creation.
• Lead Through Collaboration: Act as the connective tissue across business functions to ensure transformation projects and strategic initiatives are executed with precision, speed, and alignment to business priorities.
• Shape the Future Experience: Inspire cross‑functional collaboration to reimagine our spaces, systems, and experiences.

Think you have what it takes to be ourVice President, Business Transformation? We’re committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here’s how we’ll know you are the best fit:

• A Strategic Integrator: You see the big picture and know how to connect strategy, people, and execution to deliver measurable transformation.
• An Influential Collaborator: You excel at building trust, alignment, and momentum across diverse teams and executive stakeholders.
• A Change Leader: You bring deep experience leading transformation and organizational change, helping teams navigate complexity with confidence and clarity.
• Data‑Driven and Insight‑Oriented: You rely on evidence, analysis, and outcomes to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
• Operationally Grounded: You understand how to turn strategy into execution, balancing creativity with disciplined program and project management.

Compass Group Canada is committed to nurturing a diverse workforce representative of the communities within which we operate. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.

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