Top Director of Operations Jobs in Chicago, IL

Serve as strategic commercial finance partner driving pricing strategy, forecasting, rebates, and sales reporting. Lead commercial operations, governance, financial controls, and change initiatives to improve profitability, decision-making, and cross-functional execution. Provide executive decision support, manage risks, and build commercial capabilities while overseeing systems, performance management, and a team to deliver scalable processes and measurable business outcomes.

Lead enterprise marketing operations and transformation across divisions by building an enterprise PMO, standardizing intake/prioritization, enabling AI/GenAI use cases, improving tools/processes, driving capacity planning and vendor/ procurement alignment, and developing teams to increase efficiency and cross-functional alignment.

The Director of Operations oversees 6 to 9 restaurant locations, focusing on operational excellence, team development, and financial performance.

The Senior Director of Program Operations leads post-accelerator programming at Braven, ensuring operational excellence and strategic growth. Responsibilities include managing teams, supporting Fellows, and innovating program delivery to enhance engagement and outcomes. This role also involves data performance monitoring and cross-functional collaboration to achieve organizational goals.

The Director of Transformation and Operations will lead strategic initiatives, enhance operations infrastructure, and conduct market intelligence to support Braven's mission of empowering college students after graduation.

Lead national facilities and real estate operations across multiple sites, managing budgets, vendor contracts, preventive maintenance, site openings, and operational KPIs. Oversee regional operations teams, drive process standardization, optimize portfolio utilization, and lead asset management and EHS initiatives. Collaborate cross-functionally to plan moves and launches, report performance, mentor staff, and support community and volunteer engagement to enhance in-person student experience.

Lead and grow the Operational Transformation consulting practice by originating and delivering large-scale manufacturing transformation engagements. Combine business development, executive advisory, and delivery leadership to drive Lean, digital, and AI-enabled improvements across multi-site operations while building firm capabilities and mentoring consulting teams.

The HCA Director of Operations will lead efforts to optimize operations, oversee project management, collaborate with teams, and maintain client relationships to meet performance metrics.

The Director of IP Operations oversees all aspects of IP operations, drives best practice initiatives, and facilitates learning and development within the IP team.

Lead and supervise live Trade Desk and Platform Support operations within an NFA/CFTC-regulated environment. Manage real-time trading risk, client escalations, platform incident response, FCM interactions, compliance with retention and record-keeping rules, cross-functional collaboration with Engineering/Product/Risk, and staff development to ensure scalable, auditable, and compliant operational processes.

Lead strategy and roadmaps for internal data platform capabilities (ingestion, EDL, data quality, metadata, governance). Align investments with engineering, architecture, and AI Delivery, improve developer productivity, drive platform adoption, and mentor a small platform product team while partnering cross-functionally to enable scalable, secure, AI-first platform capabilities.

Lead and operationalize scalable lead generation and CRM processes to convert inbound, event, and outbound activity into qualified sales opportunities. Partner cross-functionally to define routing, qualification, CRM workflows, ABM strategies, reporting, and governance to improve speed-to-lead, lead quality, conversion rates, and pipeline generation.

No specific responsibilities were listed. Likely to lead and scale operations for digital assets, manage brokerage/clearing operational processes, ensure compliance, and coordinate cross-functional teams.

The Director ZEBS Commercial & Operations leads operational excellence initiatives, drives commercial performance, ensures process standardization, and coaches teams on Lean methodologies to achieve strategic objectives.

Lead operational design and reporting for Insights & Strategy: build and own progress-to-goal reporting, coordinate cross-functional partnerships, manage team rhythms and knowledge, design meetings and processes, produce data-driven narratives and visualizations, and support councils and capacity-building projects to track organizational priorities.

Lead technology operations and data transformation efforts, oversee service delivery, vendor management, and cross-functional initiatives. Ensure client implementations, SLAs, KPIs, and project milestones are met on time and within budget while fostering team performance and strategic roadmaps.

Lead administration of career services technology and vendor relationships, manage data and outcomes reporting, coordinate event logistics and student/employer communications, drive AI adoption and process improvements, and support career coaching and employer partnerships.

Lead regional operational strategy and compliance for BMO branches, driving efficiency, risk mitigation, financial planning, vendor and change management, stakeholder engagement, and implementation of strategic initiatives to support sales and client experience.

Lead regional program and operations for multiple Ronald McDonald House and Family Room sites: manage staff and volunteers, oversee 24/7 facility operations and facilities management, implement program strategy and continuous improvement, build hospital partnerships, manage budgets and reporting, and ensure family-centered care and compliance with organizational policies.

Embed with partner firms to standardize and deploy operational playbooks, improve working capital (DSO, WIP, realization), coordinate finance/HR/legal/tech, support tuck-in integrations, and provide operational advisory to regional leadership.

Lead payer strategy and operations for value-based contracting, building TCOC and risk models, converting clinical and financial data into commercial narratives, owning Salesforce-driven revenue operations, and delivering reporting and sales enablement to drive growth and executive decision-making.

The Director of Sales Operations will enhance the Sales organization by refining processes, improving forecasting, and optimizing operations for growth and performance accountability.

The Sr Director will provide thought leadership in AI technology, create insights for clients, manage AI implementation, and mentor junior analysts.

Lead end-to-end partnerships for new product verticals (home, motorcycle, etc.): build pipeline, structure complex deals, close and onboard partners, ensure post-close success, and inform vertical strategy through partner insights.

Lead end-to-end partnerships for new product lines (home, motorcycle, adjacent products): build pipeline, structure complex deals, close and onboard partners, ensure partner success, and inform vertical strategy.