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%
