Manager, Solution Design

Toyota Industries Corporation•Indianapolis, IN

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The position has management responsibility for a determined number of direct reports with the intent of increasing team member competencies and strengths, effectively utilizing their bandwidth and workload, training team members to increase their capabilities, and driving continued success and improvement. The Manager is responsible for Consulting Team Member development and the continued modernization of Bastian Solution’s Consulting Practice. The Manager assists the Director in executing strategic business goals, ensures Consulting Deliverables are fully vetted and risks mitigated, and confirms the Consulting team is fully engaged with downstream Solutions Delivery Implementation projects. He or she sponsors both Paid Consulting Studies and System support opportunities with the goal of overseeing Solution Designs that ensure customer satisfaction, reduces risk in key design criteria, and that the best practices/SOPs are followed for timely consulting deliverable completion.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering (or related degree) with 7+ years of relevant practical business experience.
Demonstrated leadership skills
Motivates and unleashes the true potential of Team Members
Strategic thinking and strong drive for constant improvement
Ability to Challenge Status-quo and drive change across the organization
Excellent technical problem-solving capability
Excellent customer relations during complex projects
Strong capability to hold difficult conversations when needed with employees and customers
Proactive in addressing conflicts. Always stays professional through conflicts
Must be eligible to work in the USA long term without sponsorship.
Employees must follow all information security policies, protect confidential data, complete required training, and report any suspected security incidents to support our information security controls.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree is preferred

Responsibilities

Strategically develop the Consulting practice
Recruit, train, coach, and motivate the Consultants under his or her leadership
Ensure Consulting supports the overall company goals (Safety, Employee, Customer, Financial)
Sponsor Paid Consulting projects and System Sales Opportunities – ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-quality delivery, resulting in highly impressed clients, repeat business, and customer reference sites
Provide supplemental Project Support to projects that are behind schedule, budget, and/or quality expectations
Recruiting of new talent (interviewing, convincing the strongest candidates to join Toyota, improving our Recruiting standards)
Career development of the assigned reports as well as the overall Consulting team – ensuring high team satisfaction under his or her leadership and a high retention rate
Developing and supervising internal training. Drive onboarding of newly hired consultants and supervise continued training for seasoned consultants.
Ensure strong and balanced project staffing that keeps the team utilization high and projects within schedule
Performing all administrative functions as needed