Lean Director - Global

Description

• Work closely with the executive leadership team, facilitating effective communication and collaboration to drive strategic initiatives.
• Utilize Lean methodologies to drive process improvements in key areas.
• Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring the organization's long-term sustainability and success.
• Facilitate Obeya Room Set-ups, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Kaizen workshops, Daily Work Installations, and driving action closure.
• Align strategic goals with daily operations using frameworks like Hoshin Kanri & Lean Maturity Models, while ensuring all levels of the company work towards the same objectives.
• Identify key process improvement opportunities and lead process standardization.
• Facilitate workshops and training sessions, balancing theoretical knowledge with practical application.
• Work closely with senior & local leadership to implement and deliver tangible and significant improvements in process performance.
• Serve as a liaison between the executive team and key stakeholders, ensuring transparent and effective communication.
• Foster innovation by introducing new CI techniques, methodologies, and tools, sharing insights broadly across CI Team.
• Support integration and alignment vertically and horizontally across the organization.
• Oversee Lean Business system, Lean methodologies, tools and associated process improvement standard work. Establish Lean governance structures, performance dashboards & sustainment mechanisms.
• Conduct training sessions and workshops to promote Lean methodologies.
• Identify key value drivers, providing practical tools and methodologies to improve process performance.
• Conduct and manage Lean training sessions for all personnel.
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify improvement opportunities, recommending appropriate technology and business solutions.
• Coach and develop Lean Assoc. Directors, senior leaders to model Lean behaviors, and resource for advance training - expected to teach advanced level courses.
• Lead critical and large-scale improvement projects aligned with business strategies and priorities.
• Mentor other project leaders to accelerate results and improve the culture of continuous improvement.
• Establishes, deploys and curates all program standards, including methods and tools.
• Solve challenges by helping with global synergy opportunities, best practice sharing implementation.
• Provide visionary leadership to the organization, setting of strategic goals.
• Oversee Lean maturity assessments and roadmap development.
• Define, design, and implement process improvement methodologies and tools.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading business transformation projects - track record of delivering tangible, recognized business & customer results.
• Strong communication and presentation skills. Ability to establish rapport with leaders, customers and peers.
• Mastery of Lean systems, cultural transformation and change management.
• Experience in leading, training, and coaching Lean and 6Sigma methods & tools.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, strong business acumen, ability to align change management approach to business needs.
• Excellent facilitation and strategic thinking skills.
• Minimum 10-15 years of experience in Continuous Improvement across multiple business domains.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Quality, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven analytical and systems-thinking: design & deployment of end-to-end solutions that exceed requirements.
• Travel Requirements: 25-50%.
• Proactive risk management and issue resolution skills with appropriate escalation practices.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance