This leader defines performance standards, drives measurable productivity improvement, and creates an integrated roadmap that advances cost, quality, delivery, and safety outcomes across the enterprise. They will partners deeply with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Procurement, Sustainability, and Digitization to ensure that operational excellence is embedded into every stage of the value chain—from product design through finished goods delivery.
The role is accountable for delivering year-over-year productivity gains, supporting structural COGS improvement, building global lean capability, accelerating automation and digital tools, and enabling factories and SBUs to achieve world‑class performance.
Build Global Lean and Operational Excellence Capability
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Define and execute the enterprise Operational Excellence strategy aligned to COGS, growth, and efficiency objectives.
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Champion a culture of continuous improvement, problem-solving, and operational accountability.
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Strengthen leadership behaviors at all levels to drive reliability, discipline, and data-driven decision making.
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Establish global standards for value stream mapping, problem solving, waste elimination, flow, and standard work.
Drive Measurable Productivity & COGS Improvement
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Deliver year-over-year productivity gains through lean methods, automation, line balancing, and waste reduction.
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Partner with SBUs and plant leaders to improve OEE, labor productivity, flow, and bottleneck elimination and reduce waste, rework, and variability.
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Provide targeted Operational Excellence support for enterprise-level initiatives, capacity expansions, automation deployments, and footprint optimization.
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Provide enterprise visibility into productivity performance, root causes, and improvement plans.
Improve Plant Stability, Flow, and Operational Discipline
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Lead enterprise initiatives to improve flow, takt alignment, standard work adherence, and cycle‑time stability.
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Drive consistency in production system execution across SBUs and plants.
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Strengthen stability and adherence to standard work to reduce variability and improve throughput.
Enable Digital Lean, Automation and Advanced Productivity Tools
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Partner with the Supply Chain Digitization team to deploy:
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Real-time performance dashboards
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Digital work instructions
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Computer vision–enabled process control
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Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering to align automation with standard work and flow design.
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Ensure the BOS integrates seamlessly with automation technologies and digital tools.
Lead the Global Business Operating System (BOS)
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Own and govern the enterprise BOS architecture, standards, tools, leader routines, and performance management rhythm.
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Define and deploy common processes, visual management, daily management systems, and performance rhythms.
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Maintain governance and clarity on roles, expectations, and leadership behaviors across SBUs, plants, and functions.
Leadership, Talent & Culture
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Ensure operational excellence principles are embedded in cross-functional processes, including new product development and supplier collaboration.
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Drive alignment across the global Operational Excellence network to ensure consistency, shared learning, and accelerated scaling of best practices.
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Establish a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
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Build a global, high performing enterprise Operational Excellence organization, with a credible brand and clear roles across regions, SBUs, and plants.