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Description

The Performance Excellence Group Manager reports to the Performance Excellence Group Director and has responsibility for helping to develop and drive operational excellence across the enterprise. The Performance Excellence Group is an in-house consultancy focused on strategy and operations directly supporting the Executive Committee. Responsibilities and analysis may involve working with a variety of business work groups including operations, sales, service, procurement, engineering, product management, finance, and human resources. The position is an informal leadership pipeline for future leaders within the business units. This position will be asked to engage on a global and/or corporate level.

POTENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as the company’s change agent and systematically drive the use of business excellence tools throughout sites to achieve targets in business growth, customer experience, cash flow and productivity.
• Participate in an Integration Management Office supporting execution of investment thesis for recently acquired companies.
• Participate in Project Management Office for transformation business projects such as restructurings, procurement initiatives, kaizen events, product line reviews and business process assessments and optimizations.
• Preparation of business research and analysis, including financial analysis.
• Preparation of underlying materials, leading/participation in workshops.
• Partner with business leaders to develop, promote, standardize, and drive operating mechanisms which provide key performance indicator visibility, accountability, and action planning to continually improve business performance.
• Drive development of leaders, lean practitioners, and the general population relative to a best practice approach as the Business System is developed and deployed.
• Provide oversight of our cost productivity programs to ensure our year-end productivity goals are reached. This includes working with the sites to maintain a robust project deck and identify additional projects, provide reporting on the status of our cost productivity and project deck, conduct monthly reviews with the sites on the status of their projects, and minimize unplanned cost “leakage”.
• May participate in evaluation of acquisition targets and deployment of the Business System at recently acquired companies.

SKILLS and QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge, experience, or training in Lean techniques and proficient in process auditing.
• Possess a continuous process improvement mindset with the ability to effectively lead and manage change.
• Ability to coach and facilitate teams.
• Experience and comfort working with data from a variety of sources.
• Strong financial and statistics acumen is required.
• The ability to translate data into meaningful planning information for Finance, Sales and Operations teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership and decision-making ability.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Able to manage multiple projects/processes under tight concurrent deadlines.
• Possesses a solid working knowledge of other business functions such as Logistics, Finance, Sales, Engineering, and Human Resources in addition to Manufacturing and Quality.
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Must be able to travel as needed up to 50%.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• 4+ years of experience in business analysis, manufacturing operations, consulting, corporate strategy, and/or project management.
• Preferred experience in operational roles (i.e., engineering, supply chain).

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree required in business, engineering, operations, or science is preferred.
• An advanced degree such as an MBA is a plus.
• Experience in data analytics is a plus.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Management of up to 2 business analysts.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Certifications in Lean and/or Six Sigma preferred.

Remote Position

Description

The Performance Excellence Group Manager reports to the Performance Excellence Group Director and has responsibility for helping to develop and drive operational excellence across the enterprise. The Performance Excellence Group is an in-house consultancy focused on strategy and operations directly supporting the Executive Committee. Responsibilities and analysis may involve working with a variety of business work groups including operations, sales, service, procurement, engineering, product management, finance, and human resources. The position is an informal leadership pipeline for future leaders within the business units. This position will be asked to engage on a global and/or corporate level.

POTENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as the company’s change agent and systematically drive the use of business excellence tools throughout sites to achieve targets in business growth, customer experience, cash flow and productivity.
• Participate in an Integration Management Office supporting execution of investment thesis for recently acquired companies.
• Participate in Project Management Office for transformation business projects such as restructurings, procurement initiatives, kaizen events, product line reviews and business process assessments and optimizations.
• Preparation of business research and analysis, including financial analysis.
• Preparation of underlying materials, leading/participation in workshops.
• Partner with business leaders to develop, promote, standardize, and drive operating mechanisms which provide key performance indicator visibility, accountability, and action planning to continually improve business performance.
• Drive development of leaders, lean practitioners, and the general population relative to a best practice approach as the Business System is developed and deployed.
• Provide oversight of our cost productivity programs to ensure our year-end productivity goals are reached. This includes working with the sites to maintain a robust project deck and identify additional projects, provide reporting on the status of our cost productivity and project deck, conduct monthly reviews with the sites on the status of their projects, and minimize unplanned cost “leakage”.
• May participate in evaluation of acquisition targets and deployment of the Business System at recently acquired companies.

SKILLS and QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge, experience, or training in Lean techniques and proficient in process auditing.
• Possess a continuous process improvement mindset with the ability to effectively lead and manage change.
• Ability to coach and facilitate teams.
• Experience and comfort working with data from a variety of sources.
• Strong financial and statistics acumen is required.
• The ability to translate data into meaningful planning information for Finance, Sales and Operations teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership and decision-making ability.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Able to manage multiple projects/processes under tight concurrent deadlines.
• Possesses a solid working knowledge of other business functions such as Logistics, Finance, Sales, Engineering, and Human Resources in addition to Manufacturing and Quality.
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Must be able to travel as needed up to 50%.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• 4+ years of experience in business analysis, manufacturing operations, consulting, corporate strategy, and/or project management.
• Preferred experience in operational roles (i.e., engineering, supply chain).

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree required in business, engineering, operations, or science is preferred.
• An advanced degree such as an MBA is a plus.
• Experience in data analytics is a plus.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Management of up to 2 business analysts.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Certifications in Lean and/or Six Sigma preferred.