Job Description

Coach, drive and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools by partnering with Operating Leaders in business management roles (e.g. GM of Business Unit, or Executive Lead of a Function). Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics. May also be roles that are part of Corporate or Business Unit Kaizen Promotion Offices (KPO).

Essential Responsibilities

Strategy and Development

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice Lean vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational and transactional performance
• Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on Lean activities

General and Task Management

• Develop a robust continuous improvement strategy in partnership with the Management Team and key business stakeholders
• Implement and support cultural change across the organization and drive business improvement in a Toyota Lean style
• Provide project management, analytical and research skills and expertise
• Provide expertise, professional advice and guidance to the business in business improvement, drawing from proven industry practice and methodologies
• Report on progress of projects, understanding the risks, dependencies, budgets, resourcing, issues, critical milestones and forthcoming pipeline, and actions necessary to ensure success
• Define, develop and publish business improvement process documentation to reflect best practice
• Lead, define and develop continuous improvement activities designed to improve performance, such as the planning and running of lean events
• Attend various meetings and take care/follow up on actions
• Produce written reports and make presentations
• Undertake continuous training and development
• Contribute and support the operational rhythm
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems
• Identify business improvement opportunities within the organization
• Conduct risk assessments of processes and tasks in the department
• DfX, support in NPI to ensure manufacturability, automation, standardization
• Support automation and robotization projects in manufacturing and logistics from Lean perspective
• Alignment of 3P with Automation & Robotics integrations
• Support make or buy evaluations
• Good practice evaluation and deployment
• New AI opportunities evaluation and deployment
• Intra functional VSM

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 10 years of experience

Desired Characteristics

• Fluent English
• Finance acumen
• Project Management
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Lean: 5S, SW, VSM, SMED, Single Piece Flow, Strategy Deployment, Kanban, Heijunka, daily management @ genba, SQDIP/SQDC, VOC, Action Planning
• Problem Solving skills and root cause analysis capabilities
• Kaizen facilitation

Additional Information

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position