•Lead/work with functional teams to streamline processes to improve the customer experience, enable profitable growth and become more efficient.
•Responsible for facilitating/enabling the implementation of the PPI Business System to enable key sites to become Centers of Excellence.
•Diplomatically cultivate an action-biased culture of continuous improvement to improve KPIs, in the areas of customer, finance, people and quality.
•Establish and mature the Lean Management System (tiered daily management systems, gemba walks, and leader standard work) and other coaching tools to transform the culture.
•Provide support to develop lean expertise and capability within the organization at all levels
•Improve the decision-making model and problem solving capabilities within high performance teams to increase autonomy and the pace of change
•Work closely with business leadership and PPI steering committees to identify ways to accelerate the culture change necessary to support the PPI Business System.
•Provide ongoing Lean support to multiple teams
•Work with the expanded team to develop/promote/standardize the PPI Business System further.
Minimum Requirements
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to connect with and positively influence leadership and all levels of the organization
•A Lean Expert with an 8+ years’ experience and a ‘hands-on’ track record of implementing successful TPS-based business systems including elements such as:
◦Lean Leadership (Daily Management, Leader Standard Work, and Gemba Walks)
◦Strategy Deployment and Value-stream mapping
◦Kaizen events on standard work, cell design, process and product 3P, Value-Analysis/Value Engineering, error-proofing, material flow, heijunka, and kanban.
◦Expertise in problem-solving utilizing a formal program/process
•A holistic thinker who can look enterprise-wide to integrate and streamline systems for optimal benefit.
•Able to drive strategic thinking and continuous improvement in both non-operational and operational areas, including connecting the cross-functional resources to remove waste along the extended value streams.
•Passion for driving improvement and leading change in a complex, global environment
•Proven track record for developing, training, and coaching teams
•Great communicator, including solid written, oral and presentation-giving skills.
•Broad knowledge of multi-functional, multi-site, global organizational processes and financial business methods
•High ethical standards to support a professional business code of conduct
•Bachelors degree in engineering, science, operations or business
•Able to travel domestically and internationally; ~50%
Preferred Requirements
•Leadership roles from disciplines such as operations, commercial, engineering, quality, or product management
•Broad knowledge of multi-functional, multi-site, global organizational processes and financial business methods (SIOP, Customer Connections, Strategic Sourcing, etc.)
•MBA degree preferred
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