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Director, Global Lean Six Sigma Operational Excellence

Description: The role is highly visible and assumes primary responsibility for implementing continuous improvement across all business functions and all business units of the company. Reporting to the SVP of Worldwide Operations, the Director will exercise considerable judgment to identify and execute strategic continuous improvement plans and tactical project implementation and completion processes.

You should anticipate significant domestic and international travel in this position, most likely at the 50-60% range, but this will obviously vary over time based on the demands of the business and your own decisions.

As the company’s philosophy is very much focused on long-term success and profitability, as opposed to simply “making the numbers every quarter,” you should expect a significant financial reward in the form of long-term equity-based (stock) incentives.

You will:

• Partner with senior business leaders to develop and lead the continuous improvement strategy world-wide, across multiple sites.



• Drive the creation of focused standard work productivity and quality initiatives specific to the needs of the business teams and regions to meet and exceed business plans.


Define and deploy the appropriate metrics to measure both productivity and process quality, providing meaningful feedback to the operations.


• Provide both strategic and tactical leadership regarding continuous improvement project selection, scope, definition and performance, to ensure alignment with business (Hoshin) strategy.



• Mentor and guide operations business teams in their ability to develop and execute daily, weekly & monthly action plans that increase quality, inventory accuracy and customer service.
  Instill long-term sustainability of the BIS by making its principles, policies, practices and language an integral component of standard work across global operations and by developing formal BIS education/training vehicles across the board to site champions, managers and company associates.



• Drive continuous improvement culture change through collaboration and communication regarding best practices knowledge sharing, internal and external benchmarking, talent development and overall, a visibly passionate and vocal advocacy for hands-on Lean leadership.

Qualifications: <ul> <br/> <br/> <li>Intimate knowledge of Lean principles, practices and techniques, combined with expertise in deploying Six Sigma tools, and the ability to champion standard work based on Lean Six Sigma principles.</li> <br/> <br/> <li>Ten or more years of successful leadership experience in project management and facilitation of large cross-functional teams in business operations and technology process improvement areas.</li> <br/> <br/> <li>Proven experience in leading large cross functional site transformations. <br/>Demonstrated expertise in deploying transactional Lean, manufacturing Lean, variation reduction, and design for six sigma methodologies.</li> <br/> <br/> <li>Demonstrated experience and proficiency in effective communication of goals and strategies across multiple leadership levels of an organization.</li> <br/> <br/> <li>Solid expertise in budget management, strong understanding key financial metrics, and proficiency with statistical analysis tools and processes.<li> <br/> <li>Minimum of BS/BA in technical (math, engineering, science) curriculum; MBA, other advanced degree preferred.<li> <br/></ul>

Location: Seattle, Washington

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