Business Performance Director

General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems•St Petersburg, FL

About The Position

The Business Performance Director analyzes the effectiveness of current business processes, identifies best practices and opportunities for improvement, and designs or participates in optimizing business objectives. The role develops proposals to further the organization in support of business strategy and is responsible for aligning the Lean/Six Sigma roadmap and deploying Operational Excellence across Artillery Systems. This recognized functional expert solves problems with broad business impact, contributes to organizational functional strategy, and determines professional and technical approaches for the function. The role develops function-specific policies and procedures aligned with overall organizational strategy and has responsibility for the function, reporting to the site or SBU head and/or a Home Office functional leader.

Requirements

Associate's degree and 10–12 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business Administration or a related discipline.
Knowledge of business operations, strategic analysis, strategic project management, strategy development and management, trend analysis, organizational goal setting, strategic planning, risk analysis, and long-term planning.
Experience leading Transactional Process Improvements (TPI), Standard Work, Value Stream Mapping, and 5S events.

Responsibilities

Use data-driven methodologies to analyze business performance metrics and process-improvement options.
Conduct periodic reviews of organizational goals and objectives to identify roadblocks to progress.
Drive strategic initiatives and support the development of long-term growth plans and profitability goals.
Develop and direct reporting and tools that communicate strategic plans and concepts to leadership.
Execute and enable the organization's strategic and long-range goal-planning function.
Analyze and recommend emerging industry trends, expansion opportunities, competitive threats, the viability of outside business partners, and sources of capital; this may include mergers and acquisitions.
Facilitate Lean events as a Kaizen Leader or Lean Tool Expert to drive process and performance improvements.
Manage the Strategic Goal Deployment process and Operations Review structure for the business.
Align the Lean/Six Sigma roadmap and deploy Operational Excellence across Artillery Systems.