Process Excellence & Business Integration Lead- Innovate to Forecast

Responsibilities

• Champion and operationalize business process management methodology and capabilities.
• In an integration scenario, understand current PCB business processes and quickly identify gaps and differences between PCB and acquired company.

Assist in identifying synergy savings that can be realized through process / system rationalization.

• Actively participate in a process management center of excellence that is focused on institutionalizing PCB business process knowledge and evolving the Process Excellence practice for PCB.
• Lead the workstream level discovery, planning, and execution of integrations, including evaluation of current state process, future state process design, gap analysis, business requirements, and end state operating model design.
• Drive business process improvement through process documentation and partnership with functional process owners. Expose inefficiencies embedded in current process flows, or caused by systems capability gaps, and recommend / sell the need for and benefit of change.
• Core Member of business acquisitions / integrations teams from a functional workstream point of view, keeping in lock step with Business and IT leadership on the impact to process and technology to enable integration timeliness and success.
• Support acquisition synergies through process integration.
• Implement standard work via standardized content, behaviors, and communication across the M&A and process excellence disciplines.
• Collaborate with key business and IT leaders on systems installations / replacements and integrate with our business processes as performed by functional staff.
• Lead teams in challenging the status quo, demonstrating the need for change, and driving change initiatives. Proactively anticipate and prevent problems that could result from changes in our processes.
• Develop, socialize, and maintain formal process maps and documentation for assigned work-streams.
• Use metrics or business specific analysis to drive process improvement, reduce cost, drive growth & meet business goals.
• Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities :

• Strong business process competency in product lifecycle management, R&D product and packaging development regulatory, consumer affairs, and product commercialization.
• System and process focused mindset with ability to understand how technology can support and enable.
• Strong cross-functional business acumen.
• Ability and willingness to collaborate across multiple functional areas to achieve desired integrated business results.
• Very strong process orientation, able to understand detailed processes and to identify process synergies between teams, and between acquired business and current PCB processes, to create business value.
• Drive fact-based improvement decisions within the team and across the company.
• Develop effective cross-functional relationships based on trust, and alignment with business goals.
• Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Advanced skills in gap identification, escalation, and evaluation of trade-off options and impacts.
• Demonstrated ability in defining complex business problems and working with key stakeholders to identify possible solutions.
• Ability to attack complex business issues and simplify decision-making and execution.

Education & Experience :

• B.S. in Business, Engineering, Food Science, Supply Chain or related field. MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Understanding of end-to-end business processes across the innovate to forecast workstream product lifecycle management, R&D product and packaging development regulatory, consumer affairs, and product commercialization.
• 3+ Years’ experience in project / process management, operations management, or similar experience.
• Prior merger and acquisition experience in a business lead role desired.
• Experience in high-level process design and systems implementation and support with a track record of accomplishment in large, complex systems environments.

Key Characteristics :

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop and foster relationships at all levels of the organization
• Organized and process driven
• Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and attentive to detail
• Demonstrated team player
• Results oriented
• Courageous
• Able to lead without direct authority and influence across operating functions and levels
• Learning agile in ambiguous situations; conceptual openness and willingness to learn
30+ days ago