Sr Continuous Improvement Manager

Operational Process Excellence Manager

Duties:

• Deployment of a continuous improvement methodology within the affiliate, aiming to enhance people capabilities, achieve significant performance improvements, and drive innovation by increasing organizational reliability and agility.
• Deployment and Integration: Ensure the integrated and collaborative deployment of strategy to increase engagement and ownership, delivering value through the adoption and improvement of best practices in a standardized and systematic way.
• Supply Chain and Digital Journey: Lead the end-to-end supply chain and digital journey at the site according to phase progression.
• Communication Strategies: Define and implement internal communication strategies and plans, ensuring both top-down and bottom-up communication approaches in line with the company's objectives.
• Ensure full compliance with local legislation and company policies and practices.
• Adhere to all Environment, Health, and Safety (Sustainability) rules, policies, and practices.
• Ensure safety instruction, traineeship, and knowledge assessment for subordinates as required by applicable legislation.
• Promote a safety-first mindset by demonstrating consistent behaviors and leading by example.
• Ensure the execution of OPEN+ tools, concepts, methodology and team engagement in sustainability programs.
• Ensure alignment with global operating standards, promoting sustainable knowledge sharing on continuous improvement tools and methods, standard work processes, daily management systems, and pillars.
• Lead the implementation and deployment of Lean manufacturing according to the defined region/cluster strategy to establish an integrated operating system.
• Represent the affiliate in region/cluster meetings and workshops, ensuring challenges, priorities, and initiatives are integrated into the region/cluster plans.
• Ensure overall accountability and governance of loss elimination deployment and its sustainability within the affiliate.
• Develop the affiliate's strategy and roadmap in line with region/cluster plans to achieve continuous improvement.
• Assess the organization and processes to develop efficient and effective plans.
• Continuously review best practices and adjust affiliate plans to maximize people engagement, drive innovation, and increase organizational agility to deliver business results.
• Ensure best practices are recognized, shared, and adopted into affiliate standards.
• Ensure a proper organization structure, including a robust career path to meet objectives and plans.
• Maintain a pipeline of talent to support continuous improvement efforts and sustain expertise and capabilities.
• Support organizational leaders in driving the continuous improvement culture.
• Coordinate training activities related to initiative deployment.
• Develop and manage internal communication strategies and systems to ensure alignment with company strategies, objectives, values, and behaviors at the affiliate level.
• Lead and develop the internal communication community to ensure effective use of communication tools and channels.

Experience Needed:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• 5 years of experience in Manufacturing, Quality/LEAN, Product Development, Supply Chain, or other relevant departments.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in managing others. Change Management preferred
• Knowledge of integrated operating systems, lean/continuous improvement methods and tools, manufacturing processes, quality and PPMD processes, company sustainability practices and standards, supply chain processes, and practices and processes.
• Six Sigma Black or Green Belt Certified preferred