Senior Vice President, Transformation Lead (Freelance)

About this role

Company Description
Hi there—at Razorfish, we’re leaders in what's next. Since the dawn of the internet, we’ve helped brands move first through every era of transformation, defining what digital means for business and now leading brands into the age of AI. Everyone has a prediction. Razorfish has a track record.
Named a Most Innovative Agency three years running (2024–2026) by Campaign US, our work reflects a proven ability not just to anticipate what’s coming, but to help our clients actively shape the future. No matter the trend or cultural moment, delivering real business impact wouldn’t be possible without our people. We bring together curious, driven, and diverse thinkers who challenge convention, push boundaries, and hold a high bar for creative excellence.
If you’re motivated to work alongside top performers, push the boundaries of what’s possible, and help define where technology, business, and marketing are headed next—this is the place to do it.Join us at razorfish.com.
This role at Razorfish will serve as a member of Publicis Groupe's strategic internal agency, Constellation.
Constellation serves as an internal-facing brand formed by a collective of Publicis Groupe agencies to address our client's creative, data, strategy, media, and technology requirements. Team members collaborate across agencies while functioning as sub-divisions within their respective brands to provide dedicated support for the client. By acting as a unified interface, Constellation eliminates operational silos and presents a single service entity and primary point of contact for the client.
Overview
Constellation is Publicis Groupe's dedicated agency for Samsung, bringing together client leadership, strategy, media, data, CRM, creative, technology, delivery, and operations in service of a single client. The Senior Vice President, Transformation Lead works directly with the Executive Vice President, Business Operations to turn Constellation's most important and complex business problems into implementable change.
Constellation is entering a period of significant transformation. Like the wider marketing-services industry, we need to evolve how work gets done to create a more efficient, scalable, and outcome-oriented operating model. Many of today's workflows are highly bespoke, complex, and capacity-constrained. Over the next 12 months and beyond, Constellation will redesign priority areas of the business using process re-engineering, automation, AI, data, and new operating models to improve productivity, quality, speed, and scalability while continuing to deliver exceptional outcomes for Samsung.
This is not a conventional project-management role. The Transformation Lead is expected to understand the realities of a modern marketing-services organization, take ambiguous cross-functional problems, establish the facts, diagnose what is not working, define a practical future state, help senior stakeholders make the necessary choices, and translate the agreed direction into an actionable implementation plan.
The closest shorthand is a strong, experienced management consultant with meaningful agency or marketing-services experience who has moved beyond producing recommendations and knows how to drive implementation. The successful candidate will operate independently, exercise sound judgment, and reduce rather than add to the leadership burden.
This is a senior practitioner role. The Executive Vice President sets the transformation agenda and executive mandate; the Transformation Lead takes major assignments, develops the answer, and drives them through decision, mobilization, and implementation.
*Please note that this is a 6 month contract position.
Responsibilities
The ask:

• Lead transformation work across selected priority business and operating-model challenges.

• Redesign priority areas of Constellation's operating system to improve efficiency, scalability, and business performance.

• Turn poorly defined problems into clear transformation briefs, practical choices, and executable plans.

• Connect organizational, process, technology, data, commercial, and change implications so that the whole problem is addressed.

• Move work from diagnosis and design through decision, mobilization, and implementation.

Key responsibilities

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Structure ambiguous problems: Take complex or poorly defined business issues and turn them into clear questions, hypotheses, workplans, and decision points.

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Establish the fact base: Gather and synthesize the evidence required to understand the current state, including business needs, workflows, roles, handoffs, pain points, performance data, and stakeholder perspectives.

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Diagnose the current state: Identify root causes in processes, operating models, organization, governance, technology, or ways of working rather than simply cataloguing symptoms.

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Design the future state: Develop practical future-state processes and operating models, including capabilities, workflows, roles, decision rights, governance, talent implications, and enabling technology.

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Develop options and recommendations: Frame realistic choices for senior stakeholders, make trade-offs and implications explicit, and provide a clear point of view rather than merely recording competing opinions.

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Lead senior working sessions: Plan and facilitate cross-functional discussions that test the work, resolve disagreement, and move stakeholders toward decisions.

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Translate decisions into implementation: Convert an agreed future state into a sequenced roadmap with outcomes, workstreams, owners, dependencies, resources, risks, milestones, and measures of success.

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Mobilize the work: Help establish the right team, ownership, governance, and initial operating cadence so that agreed changes move into execution.

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Integrate business and technology change: Ensure AI, automation, data, platforms, and technical solutions follow the business problem and future workflow rather than becoming the starting…