Enterprise Excellence, Strategy Deployment Director
About The Position
The Director of Enterprise Hoshin Kanri & Strategy Deployment designs, leads, and continuously improves the company’s enterprise strategy-deployment process. The role translates long-term strategic direction into annual objectives, measurable targets, strategic initiatives, and aligned execution plans across the enterprise. As a leader within Enterprise Excellence, the director integrates Hoshin Kanri with the company’s operating system, performance management, continuous improvement, and leadership routines. The director partners with executive, business-unit, functional, regional, and manufacturing-site leaders to establish alignment, identify cross-functional dependencies, monitor progress, and accelerate organizational learning. The role combines strategic thinking with practical execution expertise, building a repeatable process that helps leaders make choices, align resources, solve problems, and deliver sustainable business outcomes. The position is based in Charlotte, North Carolina; Towson, Maryland; or Valley City, Ohio, and is described as hybrid. The company presents itself as an inclusive, global, innovation-focused organization committed to continuous improvement, employee development, and sustainable business practices.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in Operational Excellence, strategy execution, business transformation, operations, or a closely related field.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, Finance, or a related discipline.
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent Operational Excellence qualification.
- Training in Hoshin Kanri or Strategy Deployment.
- Experience with TPS (Toyota Production System) or a similar production system.
- Direct experience designing or leading strategy deployment across multiple functions, business units, or sites.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate senior leadership discussions and influence decisions.
- Experience translating strategic objectives into KPIs, targets, initiatives, milestones, and reviews.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or relevant master’s degree.
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise Hoshin Kanri framework, annual calendar, governance, and deployment standards.
- Translate multi-year strategic priorities into annual breakthrough objectives, targets, and key initiatives.
- Design and facilitate executive strategy-setting, prioritization, and alignment sessions.
- Lead the catchball process to test assumptions, align objectives, surface resource constraints, and establish realistic commitments.
- Ensure enterprise objectives are clearly connected to business-unit, functional, regional, and site-level plans.
- Help leadership distinguish breakthrough priorities from routine operational improvements.
- Design and facilitate monthly and quarterly strategy reviews.
- Establish ownership, milestones, leading and lagging indicators, risks, and escalation paths for strategic initiatives.
- Ensure reviews address performance gaps, root causes, countermeasures, decisions, and resource needs rather than only status reporting.
- Integrate strategy reviews with existing business reviews, operating reviews, and financial planning cycles where practical.
- Facilitate annual reflection and learning to inform the next strategy-deployment cycle.
- Develop a practical Hoshin Kanri playbook, templates, facilitation guides, and standard work.
- Coach executives and senior leaders in strategic prioritization, catchball, review discipline, and countermeasure development.
- Develop regional and functional Hoshin practitioners who can facilitate deployment independently.
- Establish a community of practice to share lessons, improve the methodology, and avoid unnecessary variation.
- Adapt the deployment approach to different functions’ and sites’ needs and maturity while maintaining core principles.
- Promote an inclusive culture and continuous improvement, leading by example and embodying company values.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability benefits
- 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Paid time off, including paid vacation, holidays, and personal days
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness program
- Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products
- Discount programs for partner vendors
- Access to learning resources, including a digital learning portal, Lean Academy, and online university
- Career development opportunities across the global company
- Volunteerism and giving-back opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
