About this role
Overview & Responsibilities
Purpose of the Job
Lead multi-site, regional, or global programs for Process Excellence across manufacturing and/or service. Define the roadmap, sponsor key initiatives, and partner with senior leaders to drive transformation, standardization, and measurable enterprise impact. Focus: scale best practices and institutionalize an operating system for excellence.
Background and Experience
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field (or equivalent experience). Degrees or Advanced Degrees with an emphasis on Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence considered a plus.
Experience: 10–15+ years leading multi-site or global CI / process excellence transformations and culture change.
Certifications: Black Belt required; Lean Master / Master Black Belt preferred.
• Enterprise program governance, policy deployment (e.g., Hoshin), and KPI systems. • Ability to coach leaders and manage multiple workstreams at scale. • Strategic planning, budgeting, and resource allocation across sites/regions. • Strong external benchmarking and best-practice replication experience. • Executive-level communication and change leadership. • Proven leadership skills to coach and lead teams to fully deliver chartered objectives and projects.
Contact with Others
• High interaction with senior leadership across multiple sites/regions, including executive sponsors. • Coordinates with global functional leaders and external networks to scale best practices.
Supervision
• Leads managers and/or senior individual contributors. • Accountable for organization design, staffing, and capability development across multiple sites/regions.
Specific Job Responsibilities / Competencies
• Build multi-year roadmap and lead transformation programs. • Sponsor and govern enterprise-scale initiatives; allocate resources. • Standardize and replicate best practices across manufacturing and service. • Develop CI talent pipeline and leadership capability. • Enterprise leadership; systems thinking; executive partnership. • Program governance; coaching leaders; global stakeholder management. • Strong analytics and benefits realization discipline. • Accountable for multi-site or regional/global results, including transformation program outcomes, standardization, and capability building. • Influences investment decisions and resource allocation within delegated authority. • Sets priorities and governance for multi-site/regional/global programs. • Approves major initiative roadmaps and resource allocations within delegated authority.
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