Business Excellence Leader, Site Operations

About the role

Leader of all processes related to discovery, prioritization, and execution of continuous improvement and cost savings projects for a site or large department. Trusted consultant, facilitator, and coach to site-leadership, peers, and hourly associates. Project and program management expert with clear mastery of green belt lean systems tools, with the ability to lead an organization through execution and sustainment.

Responsibilities

• Owns the site's continuous improvement roadmap and culture development with strong dotted-line responsibility to the site leader
• Models behavior expected of the team – creator of vision, purpose, and measurement against perfection, not budgets or historical performance
• Directly leads the roll-out and implementation of chosen Lean-based tools consistent with Pharmavite Operational Excellence Vitality System
• Manages and measures work; lays out and executes clear strategies for project & change management
• Leads site cost/inventory/improvement savings, development, and adherence to prioritization and tracking
• Partners with finance and industrial engineering organizations on developing approaches to improve understanding of losses and waste consistent with the Zero-Based Analysis approach
• Supports analysis of operational and financial performance and translates the information into meaningful metrics, feedback, and action
• Champions and partners with plant management to engage the hourly workforce in driving daily improvements
• Creates an energizing work environment that supports the Company’s high-performance culture while ensuring an efficient and flexible organization
• Effective communicator across levels; motivator of hourly employees who can manage vision and purpose as the operational excellence champion for the site

Requirements

• Requires a four-year college or university degree in supply chain, engineering, accounting, or chemistry/biology, or related field, or equivalent (3-5 years) operational excellence/continuous improvement relevant experience
• Certification: Dependent on site needs and current state in organizational roadmap – various certifications and/or implementation experiences may be relevant and/or required. Green belt or higher experience with Lean and/or Six Sigma is required
• Requires two to three years of post-collegiate work experience minimum
• Plant or warehouse experience in a strong, continuous improvement environment
• Implementation experience of key Lean/TPM continuous improvement tools
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects through implementation
• Prior training experience
• Prefer consumer product goods (CPG) or high-speed, repetitive manufacturing experience

Skills

• Lean Systems Green Belt skills, including value stream mapping and design, visual management, 5S, SMED/rapid changeover, standard work/flow, cell/model cell, 3P (production preparation process), jidoka, poka yoke, business process mapping/lean office
• Strong Project Management skills
• Leadership, not just a participant, of Kaizen/Improvement Events
• Ability to manage via influence at all levels of the organization
• Ability to plan, organize, coordinate, and schedule multiple tasks with minimal supervision and adjust to changing priorities and assignments
• Solid proficiency in MS Office Suite, including Excel, Visio, Word,& PowerPoint. Power BI development experience preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex information across levels
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Must have a base financial acumen; prefer understanding of basic fundamentals of activity-based cost accounting and P&L 101 level experience
• Prefer working knowledge of ERP (preferably JDE and/or Oracle-based tools)
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) language skills are highly valued but not required in all site roles

Physical Requirements

• General office and plant environment, ability to sit or stand for long periods of time
• Frequent driving between locations is expected as needed
• Travel up to 15% of the time to out-of-state sites may be required

Supervisory Responsibility

• The incumbent has a significant influence role at the facility, so they must have proven leadership skills and be able to quickly garner the respect of leaders, peers, and hourly associates. Will be expected to lead projects across different functional areas without formal position leadership responsibility.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation programs
• Standout benefits
• 401(k) match
• Other wellness benefits

Pay

Base pay is $78,000.00 - $128,000.00. The salary range for this position is based on national standards. For candidates in California and the New York metro, the Target Base Pay Range is $86,000.00 - $142,000.00, to reflect the cost of living and market conditions in those areas.

Schedule

Full-time position