Director - Lean

Wesco•Salt Lake City, UT

10d

About The Position

As the Director - Lean you will be responsible for leading strategic, enterprise-level initiatives to deliver short term results and long term sustainability. You will support business objectives, including working on strategic objectives with senior business leaders and facilitating tactical and strategic kaizens, promoting and guiding LEAN cultural transformation, and coaching LEAN principles at various organizational levels. You will create standards used to measure quality results to drive continuous improvements. You will direct and provide tactical strategic direction to a team of LEAN professionals responsible for the implementation, administration and measurement of LEAN programs, including Six Sigma initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree - Engineering, Logistics, Technical required; MBA preferred
10 years experience of extensive LEAN leadership in a medium or large company
5 years experience managing a team
5 years required of managing large-scale strategic initiatives
Must be a seasoned Lean Expert or 6 Sigma Black Belt
Leadership – ability to formulate and communicate clear vision and sense of direction and mobilize people.
Communication – ability to pass messages using different channels (verbal and written)
Facilitating – ability to organize and facilitate multidisciplinary teams through structured workshops (strategic session, Kaizens, problem solving sessions)
Change management – ability to communicate a need for change, create all necessary conditions for successful change and overcome different forms of resistance
Coaching – ability to coach people to develop their skills and abilities to achieve agreed upon objectives
Training – ability to identify and formulate training needs and assure training execution and follow up
Ability to travel 20% - 50%

Nice To Haves

PMP, Change Management or Scrum Master certifications preferred
Experience with coordinating and optimizing lean tools (visualization, etc.) applications preferred
Candidates with 3 years or more prior experience of working in a sales, commercial, service or transactional environments preferred

Responsibilities

Leads, oversees and provides tactical to strategic direction a team of Managers and individual contributors responsible for driving the deployment and execution of continuous improvement
Functions as leader to develop and execute LEAN strategy for business units
Works with executives and leadership teams to identify, plan, and deliver LEAN support
Supports Leaders at the CEC executive level in developing business and executing LEAN business strategy and plans
Facilitates goal deployment sessions at the Sr. Executive levels of the organization
Supports deployment of resources to solve problems to meet business objectives
Utilizes customer data to influence leaders to achieve positive business results
Develops and executes LEAN strategy for groups, regions, and branches and ensures objectives and results are achieved
Participates in execution of LEAN strategy via training, coaching and mentoring of LEAN practitioners (LFCs, green belts, yellow belts, etc.) and LEAN leader blue belts
Assists in development of LEAN program managers, facilitators and application specialists through personal example, coaching, mentoring, and training
Leads and facilitates strategic, enterprise-level events
Selects and utilizes appropriate LEAN tools
Identifies, promotes and disseminates out-of-the-box thinking and best practices, supports and coaches during implementation to improve sales, service, efficiency, inventory, cost and space
Provides executive level updates
Functions as catalyst to promote LEAN thinking and fosters continuous improvement culture