Culture Excellence Manager

Transform Organizational Culture: Culture Excellence Manager

Are you ready to turn cultural vision into operational reality across a global, high-impact enterprise? Join Trimble as a Culture Excellence Manager and lead hands-on, multi-site initiatives that shape how our teams collaborate, lead, and deliver.

About Us

Trimble is an industrial technology company transforming the way the world works by delivering solutions that enable our customers to thrive. We create technologies that connect the digital and physical worlds, helping our customers increase productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise-level solutions, our technology empowers professionals in construction, geospatial, government, transportation, and more.

What Makes This Role Great

In this high-visibility, 12 month fixed term opportunity strategic role, you will work directly with senior leadership and frontline teams across global sites to embed core cultural principles into daily operations using hands-on Gemba Walk practices and real-time facilitation.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

Senior Leadership modeling: The CTCT Culture Principles need to be visible in how Sr Staff runs meetings, makes decisions and communicates.  Leading by example at all levels is key for stickiness.  While not a member of the Sr Staff, this person will be expected to make recurring report outs to Sr Staff.

Manager Attendance: Active engagement will require reinforcement.  Recommend cohort sessions not be optional for managers. 

Internal Champions Advocacy: These "Volunteer Army" advocates achieve scale by accelerating the cultural end-state within their respective teams and peers. Acting as catalysts for change, they will need permission to be actively engaged and empowered to do this work. This will require support from Sr Staff.

Data Access: The ability to establish measurements to assess baseline and progress will require data access.  

Stage Gate (or other collateral) Responsiveness: Feedback on what is working and what is not helps speed up decisions to amplify, modify or pivot.  Request feedback requests / responses to be within 5 business days.

Conflict Transparency: Resistance, workarounds and culture breaking behavior will not change if tolerated.  If observed by others, they need to be shared so that it can be understood and resolved.

Talent Acquisition and HR/PX Administration: These functions are out of scope for this role.

Performance & Culture Progress Indicators

Cultural principles are demonstrated through observable, professional behaviors. The following performance metrics provide structured, neutral criteria to evaluate cultural adoption and operational effectiveness across teams.

Decision Velocity & Issue Escalation

Metric: Efficiency of problem-to-resolution routing.

Objective Behavior: Operational roadblocks and project risks are identified, documented, and routed to the appropriate decision-maker in a timely manner.

Value: Reduces operational bottlenecks and ensures decisions are owned at the appropriate level of responsibility.

Actionable Meeting Outcomes

Metric: Meeting efficiency and baseline engagement.

Objective Behavior: Meetings operate with clear agendas, documented action items, explicit decision ownership, and structured opportunities for all team members to provide input.

Value: Drives clarity, reduces unresolved agenda items, and ensures equitable participation across teams.

Professional Standards Alignment

Metric: Alignment with company values in operational communications.

Objective Behavior: Professional communication (such as project updates, performance feedback, and client interactions) reflects core organizational standards and expectations.

Value: Establishes consistent communication standards and shared operational expectations.

Proactive Risk & Issue Reporting

Metric: Early identification of operational risks.

Objective Behavior: Employees identify and report potential compliance, safety, operational, or workflow risks early before escalation occurs.

Value: Fosters a transparent working environment where operational feedback is addressed constructively without fear of retaliation.

Solution-Oriented Problem Solving

Metric: Initiative and constructive problem-solving.

Objective Behavior: Employees present potential solutions or actionable recommendations alongside identified operational issues.

Value: Promotes independent problem-solving and operational accountability across all levels.

Qualitative Progress Case Studies

Metric: Continuous improvement examples.

Objective Behavior: Voluntary submitter-led documentation of operational improvements, comparing current process outcomes against prior benchmarks (e.g., "Detail a workflow modification over the last six months that improved project delivery").

Value: Captures real-world operational growth to complement quantitative performance data.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Kotter Change Leadership | PROSCI Change Management, Certification 
• Certified Results Management Leader and OKR Coach, Workboard Inc 
• 1-2 years of experience working in a Joint Venture
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent
• Management Operating Systems (e.g., EOS, OKR, 4DX, etc.) 
• Belbin Team Role Theory Accreditation or equivalent
• Organizational Accountability & Strategic Influence
•  Proven ability to hold all levels of the organization—from individual contributors through senior leadership—accountable to cultural standards, serving as a trusted advisor who provides objective feedback during challenging periods.
• Real World Problem Facilitation (Application, Not Simulation) - must be highly skilled at facilitating live, consequential business problems in real time to enable Learn by Doing.
• Objective Behavioral Diagnostics to enable real time observation and synthesizing of leading behavioral signals to  accurately read these signals across the enterprise to produce the honest progress reports required at each Stage Gate and decide objectively if the organization is ready to advance.
• Resistance Decoding & Conflict Engineering - must be highly skilled at deconstructing resistance and engineering healthy conflict to ensure the organization can openly name and resolve culture-breaking behavior rather than working around it.

Logistics:

Location: Westminster, CO, when not traveling

Travel Requirement: 50%+ global travel (substantially higher during initial onboarding phase)

Why You'll Love Working With Us

At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact.

We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.

You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

Culture Excellence Manager, Change Management, Organizational Culture, Kotter, PROSCI, Gemba Walk, Lean Six Sigma, Management Operating Systems, OKR Coach, Leadership Facilitation

Compensation:  Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Hiring Range

$144,600.00–$198,800.00

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Bonus Eligible?

No

Commission Eligible?

No

Benefits:  Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”

Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.

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