diff --git a/src/plugins/intel_cpu/src/plugin.cpp b/src/plugins/intel_cpu/src/plugin.cpp
index 17f5843cdf7955..7fb49cb5e3b8e9 100644
--- a/src/plugins/intel_cpu/src/plugin.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/intel_cpu/src/plugin.cpp
@@ -639,8 +639,12 @@ static void TransformationUpToCPUSpecificOpSet(std::shared_ptr<ngraph::Function>
                     // CPU Plugin support Swish in Subgraph via conversion to SwichCPU which assumes second input to be constant
                     const bool is_unsupported_swish = ov::is_type<const ov::op::v4::Swish>(n) && n->inputs().size() > 1 &&
                                                       !ov::is_type<const ov::op::v0::Constant>(n->get_input_node_shared_ptr(1));
-                    const bool is_disabled_softmax_tokenization =
-                            (ov::is_type<const ov::op::v1::Softmax>(n) || ov::is_type<const ov::op::v8::Softmax>(n)) && !_tokenizeSpecOpsSnippets;
+                    // todo: general tokenization flow is not currently supported for these operations.
+                    //  they can be tokenized only as a part of complex patterns
+                    const bool is_disabled_tokenization = !_tokenizeSpecOpsSnippets &&
+                                                          (ov::is_type<const ov::op::v1::Softmax>(n) ||
+                                                           ov::is_type<const ov::op::v8::Softmax>(n) ||
+                                                           ov::is_type<const ov::op::v1::Transpose>(n));
                     const auto& inputs = n->inputs();
                     // todo: clarify whether we can evaluate snippets on const paths
                     const bool has_only_const_inputs = std::all_of(inputs.begin(), inputs.end(),
@@ -657,7 +661,7 @@ static void TransformationUpToCPUSpecificOpSet(std::shared_ptr<ngraph::Function>
                     const auto& outputs = n->outputs();
                     const bool bad_output_rank = std::any_of(outputs.begin(), outputs.end(),
                                                              [&](const ov::Output<const ov::Node>& out) {return  rank_is_too_large(out.get_tensor());});
-                    return has_only_const_inputs || bad_input_rank || bad_output_rank || is_unsupported_swish || is_disabled_softmax_tokenization;
+                    return has_only_const_inputs || bad_input_rank || bad_output_rank || is_unsupported_swish || is_disabled_tokenization;
                 });
         snippetsManager.register_pass<ngraph::snippets::pass::CommonOptimizations>();
         snippetsManager.run_passes(nGraphFunc);
diff --git a/src/tests/functional/plugin/shared/src/snippets/transpose.cpp b/src/tests/functional/plugin/shared/src/snippets/transpose.cpp
index 7c6e8fc317ebea..9f490bbe45c68f 100644
--- a/src/tests/functional/plugin/shared/src/snippets/transpose.cpp
+++ b/src/tests/functional/plugin/shared/src/snippets/transpose.cpp
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include "snippets/transpose.hpp"
 #include "subgraph_permute.hpp"
 #include "functional_test_utils/skip_tests_config.hpp"
+#include "cpp_interfaces/interface/ie_internal_plugin_config.hpp"
 
 namespace ov {
 namespace test {
@@ -35,6 +36,10 @@ void Transpose::SetUp() {
 
     auto f = ov::test::snippets::TransposeSinhFunction({inputShape}, order);
     function = f.getOriginal();
+    if (!configuration.count(InferenceEngine::PluginConfigInternalParams::KEY_SNIPPETS_MHA_OPS_TOKENIZATION_ENABLE)) {
+        configuration.insert({InferenceEngine::PluginConfigInternalParams::KEY_SNIPPETS_MHA_OPS_TOKENIZATION_ENABLE,
+                              InferenceEngine::PluginConfigParams::YES});
+    }
 }
 
 TEST_P(Transpose, CompareWithRefImpl) {