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Director - Lean

Wesco

$136,954 - $239,670
Apr 15, 2025
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The company is looking to deliver short term results and long term sustainability through strategic, enterprise-level initiatives.

Requirements

  • PMP, Change Management or Scrum Master certifications preferred
  • Experience with coordinating and optimizing lean tools (visualization, etc.) applications preferred
  • Must be a seasoned Lean Expert or 6 Sigma Black Belt

Responsibilities

  • Leads, oversees and provides tactical to strategic direction a team of Managers and individual contributors responsible for driving the deployment and execution of continuous improvement
  • Functions as leader to develop and execute LEAN strategy for business units
  • Utilizes customer data to influence leaders to achieve positive business results
  • Develops and executes LEAN strategy for groups, regions, and branches and ensures objectives and results are achieved
  • Participates in execution of LEAN strategy via training, coaching and mentoring of LEAN practitioners (LFCs, green belts, yellow belts, etc.) and LEAN leader blue belts
  • Selects and utilizes appropriate LEAN tools
  • Identifies, promotes and disseminates out-of-the-box thinking and best practices, supports and coaches during implementation to improve sales, service, efficiency, inventory, cost and space

Other

  • Bachelors Degree - Engineering, Logistics, Technical required; MBA preferred
  • 10 years experience of extensive LEAN leadership in a medium or large company
  • 5 years experience managing a team
  • 5 years required of managing large-scale strategic initiatives
  • Leadership – ability to formulate and communicate clear vision and sense of direction and mobilize people.
  • Communication – ability to pass messages using different channels (verbal and written)
  • Facilitating – ability to organize and facilitate multidisciplinary teams through structured workshops (strategic session, Kaizens, problem solving sessions)
  • Change management – ability to communicate a need for change, create all necessary conditions for successful change and overcome different forms of resistance
  • Coaching – ability to coach people to develop their skills and abilities to achieve agreed upon objectives
  • Training – ability to identify and formulate training needs and assure training execution and follow up
  • Ability to travel 20% - 50%