**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Continuous Improvement Leadership: Drive continuous improvement initiatives by prioritizing projects, mobilizing resources, and overseeing end-to-end project execution.
- Process Architecture and Optimization: Build and refine business processes to enhance efficiency, streamline workflows, and reduce waste across operations.
- Business Case Development and Financial Impact: Prepare comprehensive business cases and financial impact assessments for productivity and efficiency initiatives, aligning projects with strategic objectives and ROI targets.
- Project Execution and Post-Kaizen Control: Manage the execution of lean and Kaizen projects, implementing post-Kaizen control mechanisms to ensure long-term sustainability of improvements.
- AI Use Case Development and Implementation: Partner with IT to create and implement a pipeline of AI initiatives, focusing on AI use case identification, definition, and deployment to enhance predictive capabilities and automation in operations.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with location operations and cross-functional teams to identify key efficiency and productivity opportunities, ensuring effective local implementation and alignment with global standards.Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverage analytics and performance metrics to prioritize projects, measure impact, and drive continuous improvement efforts.
**KPI responsibility**:
- On-Time delivery
- Productivity / EfficiencyInventory $
**EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS**
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, OPS Management, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in continuous improvement, lean deployment, or project management within manufacturing or supply chain operations.
- Proven expertise in lean methodologies, Kaizen, and process optimization, with a history of successful project management in a global setting.
- Strong financial acumen with experience developing business cases and conducting ROI assessments for improvement initiatives.
- Familiarity with AI and data analytics in an operational context, and experience collaborating with IT on technology-driven initiatives.Exceptional project management, analytical, and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to work across teams in a multi-site environment.
**PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS**
No Special Physical Requirements
**ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS**
No Special Requirements
**TRAVEL TIME REQUIRED**
- 10%