Senior Manager, Continuous Improvement

Responsibilities

• Implement the Lean Business System including standard work, daily management, problem-solving cadence, and kaizen roadmaps.
• Owns the learning, application, and adoption of Lean principles and practices with the goal of building localized self-sufficiency, sustainability, and scalability of improvement efforts.
• Execute strategic lean transformation projects, and the operational execution that results in large-scale improvement across designated functions and businesses.
• Drives cultural change shift from dashboards and analytics towards actions and results.
• Drives the use of big data analytics tools (adopting AI) to tackle system level problems.

Qualifications

• Work Experience: 7 – 10 years of direct responsibility of operational ownership of different aspects of a business, and Continuous Improvement experience, in areas of Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Lab or Healthcare.
• Minimum of 7 years mastering a variety Lean and Growth-related tools such as: Strategy Deployment, Problem Solving, Daily Management, Standard Work, and VSM/Process Mapping.

About the Role

This position is a key leader of a regional lean business transformation team, driving an end-to-end analysis of a functional Business Operations & performance measures, identifying opportunities for profitable growth, and driving business transformation leveraging Lean, specifically focused on Continuous Improvement (CI), system thinking, and big data analytics techniques (adopting AI).

Additionally, this leadership role requires operational experience in business financials, functions, and demonstrated ability to collaboratively work functions in order to drive change.

This is a Hybrid scheduled position at our Wood Dale Facility in IL. (3 days onsite and 2 days work from home)