Associate Director, Continuous Improvement

Role Overview

• Direct, lead and execute the long
• and short-term strategy to ensure sustainable results that meet or exceed financial and operational targets
• Provides primary input into talent and resource management and rewards decisions for direct reports
• Manages resources and leads/ facilitates complex projects/transformations/Events that cut across organizational, functional, and internal boundaries, with flexibility to determine how assignments are completed
• Works with leadership to develop and implement operational excellence strategy
• Establishes operational plans in support of policy deployment goals and initiatives for the organization
• Accountable for establishing metrics and ensuring targets are met including event/project closure results achieved
• Drives/ Facilitates resolution of difficult or complex problems and manages closure actions
• Drives/develops and manages improvement and implementation of current and new processes and standards that will have impact on the achievement of functional results
• Coaching, mentoring, and training individuals and organizations within the business on their CORE & CI journey
• Interface directly with Executives/Management to positively influence and lead CORE /CI culture and competency improvement across the organization
• Develops methods for identifying, sharing, and implementing best practices across the organization
• Measures and drives CORE /CI progression across the organization
• Facilitates/Sponsors kaizen/CI events including leadership weeks
• Successfully builds networks across the organization and discipline
• Identifies knowledge gaps across the organization and establishes a closure plan

Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience
• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or granted refugee or asylee status) as defined
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior leaders within complex, matrixed organizations
• 4+ years’ experience with effective change management and Lean tool deployment
• Advanced CORE certification (Professional / Expert), or active progress towards
• Experience with CI, operational excellence, and enterprise Lean Transformation
• Ability to communicate and present to all levels of the organization, including influencing behaviors and change management
• Experience leading large-scale, global operating system deployments across multi-site organizations and SBUs
• Six Sigma Certification
• Cross functional work experience (e. g. Operations, Materials Mgmt , Quality, Business Processes, Supply Chain)
• Experience working in a matrix organizational structure.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program