Christopher Smith

Strategic Leadership | Board Member | Transformation Leader | Program Manager

United States

About

Strategy professional with 25+ years of experience. Results oriented strategic leader that has successfully managed continual process improvement and change to create operational excellence and achieve financial goals in multiple organizations. Possess excellent communication skills and high level of ethics and integrity.

Experience

  • First Student (Contract · 3 yrs 4 mos)
    • Transformation Lead
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Leading enterprise transformation program focused on executing private equity three-year strategy. Working in conjunction with C-Suite Executives, business stakeholders, and outsource partner to develop enterprise transformation roadmap. • Business case development, aligning with PE three-year strategy • Modernizing processes and operational execution • Oracle, JD Edwards, Hyperion, Blackline transformation • ROI / KPI development & reporting

    • Divestiture Lead
      Mar 2023 - Jan 2024 · 11 mos

      Led strategic enterprise program resulting in the divestiture of significant line of business to international acquiring organization. Developed/executed approach for the technology landscape migration (JDE, Basware, Hexagon), data cleansing & validation, and security model authentication.

  • Ohio National Financial Services (7 yrs 2 mos)
    • Senior Vice President; Strategic Initiatives and Business Optimization
      May 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Led development, communication, and execution of enterprise strategy. Responsible for financial planning & analysis and budget/cost management, ePMO, and eVMO departments. Member of the executive leadership team, reporting to the CEO/President. • Facilitated demutualization, resulting in $500M capital infusion to the enterprise. • Oversight responsibility for the administration and management of $245 million operating budget of $1.5 Billion financial services company with $42 billion in assets under management and $168.2 million in statutory core earnings. • Implemented enterprise budget process, resulting in $90M in annual savings.

    • Senior Strategy Consultant
      Oct 2018 - May 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Executed strategic business transformation program; developed and implemented business process re-engineering initiatives, normalized resource staffing model aligning with organizational roadmap, driving efficiency through implementation of technology.

    • Program Manager
      Jan 2016 - Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Led enterprise product platform implementation resulting in automated product processing solution, streamlining new product development, and reducing cost and product time to market.

  • Program Manager at Kroger
    May 2012 - Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Implementation of a $100M+ Enterprise Master Data Management solution for The Kroger Company. Supported agile methodology strategic transformation for the Kroger Technology organization.

  • Project Manager at Marathon Oil Company
    Mar 2011 - Jun 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Led Organizational Change Management activities for strategic corporate divestiture; developed, communicated, and monitored adoption across organization.

  • Project Manager at LexisNexis
    Apr 2009 - Mar 2011 · 2 yrs

    Led installation of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus suite of products. Responsible for data migration, report development, and organization security conversion.