Description
Our client is an industry leader within nutrition, personal care and beauty. They are seeking an Operational Excellence Director to join the business and lead the development of manufacturing excellence and continuous improvement framework.
The Role
- Ensure all plants (>40 sites) in the Americas region (U.S. and Latin America) have a deployment plan and are executing accordingly by deploying the CI framework, ensuring the What, the Why and the How is fully understood and followed by the local site teams.
- Support deployment by coaching and guiding local/regional teams utilizing Best Practices defined by the CI framework.
- Coach and train teams on the new CI journey ways of working and drive towards BU autonomy.
- Execute and drive CI Diagnostics, improvements and health assessments as outlined in our new revamped CI roadmap.
- Serve as an ambassador for the overall Lean Six Sigma training deployment program, actively coaching Regional CI facilitators & local CI leads.
- Execute benchmarking exercises and orchestrate best practice and knowledge sharing forums.
- Participate in overall Global Operational Excellence (GOE) communication strategy and deployment by being active in news publications.
The Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of extensive working experience and high expertise in both manufacturing/operations positions and a continuous improvement related role required.
- Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt preferred.
- Profound knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma in the field of operations.
- Ability to influence without authority and experience deploying CI programs.
- Knowledge of the external benchmark for “world class” manufacturing organizations.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 40% travel required across the US and Latin America to visit the multiple sites.
