**_ Responsibilities: _**
- Manages and leads key initiatives involving multiple functions and program teams to drive process improvement for multiple products or service offerings, processes and customers for a Business Unit.,
- Directs the development of overall process improvement strategy, budgets, resource allocation plans, and general program requirements for the Business Unit.,
- Manages activities of supporting program teams and internal and external partners; ensures alignment with unit strategy and owns responsibility for overall initiative resource management.,
- Communicates initiative progress, escalations, and issue analysis to stakeholders; collaborates with business unit management and internal development, manufacturing and service delivery partners and Customers to recommend and implement changes to products, processes, or business practices to drive process improvement and manage costs.,
- Drives innovation and integration of new technologies and quality initiatives into process improvement projects and activities in the organization.,
- Reviews and evaluates plans and guidelines for compliance with process improvement guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve overall process improvement quality and results for the organization.,
- Provides guidance and mentoring to less
- experienced staff members to set an example of process improvement innovation and excellence.
**_ Education and Experience Required: _**
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Quality Management, Business Management, Engineering, Computer Sciences, or equivalent.
- Lean Six Sigma (Black belt) or other Quality certification required
- Project management certification such as PMP/PMI certification preferred
- Typically 10+ years experience.
**_ Knowledge and Skills: _**
- Experience designing and developing data collection and analysis tools and software packages to gather, integrate and analyze data from multiple sources.
- Excellent analytical, statistical and problem solving skills.
- Extensive expertise in industry quality standards and methodologies,
- Evaluating, selecting, and creating forms of empirical and root-cause analysis, modeling and testing methodologies to identify areas for process improvement.,
- Demonstrated business acumen, understanding of organizational strategy, and successful experience managing all aspects of cross
- business unit initiatives, including communicating with internal and external stakeholders and directing matrixed teams and resources.,
- Ability to develop new technologies, processes and practices for quality,
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.,
- Ability to effectively communicate quality architectures, plans, proposals, and results, and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels.