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Responsible for documenting, training and facilitating the adoption and use of process improvement principles, practices, and tools to positively impact quality, customer and employee satisfaction and operational performance. This position will mentor employees, trainers, team leads and managers on integrating process improvement into their standard work through education engagements, facilitation of problem-solving sessions and leadership of periodic improvement projects such as Rapid Process Improvement workshops. This role will help institutionalize process improvement and change management best practices to ensure improvement efforts are successful. This person will leverage data analysis to define appropriate measures for key performance indicators and help implement Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Intelligent Automation and generative AI where appropriate.

Essential Responsibilities:

Provide leadership / mentoring / training to all levels and functions of the enterprise on the use and practice of process improvement approaches (like PDCA) and methodologies (such as Just in Time and Lean Six Sigma) and related tools.

Partner with functional leaders and management staff to assess current processes, identify process control and process improvement opportunities and clearly articulate problem definitions, objective statements, assumptions, risks, requirements, and other standard elements of project charters.

Independently lead complex problem-solving engagements with leaders at all levels of the organization and manage/facilitate process improvement (Kaizen) events.

Tailor the Daily Management System for implementation by leaders in all areas and at all levels of the organization and manage a DMS assessment process to help leaders continuously improve their DMS.

Manage a robust evaluation process for the Continuous Improvement team of selecting, scoping and prioritizing process improvement and innovation initiatives.

Maintain a portfolio of business projects and initiatives, such as those in the Plan of Record, that may have a Continuous Improvement (CI) component and drive prioritization, timing, and sequencing of any CI work based on targeted objectives.

Learn and understand existing and desired business processes, industry best practices and benchmarks - document and compare current state to ideal future state and assist in gap analysis, countermeasures and improvement including the implementation of quality systems.

Manage end-to-end projects and tasks within projects. Use project management tools to provide predictable results and visibility to all stakeholders on the status of all projects.

Plan and execute process improvement transformation Kaizen events targeted towards improving operations, with special emphasis on cross-functional and complex value streams and fostering innovation.

Design and implement best practices to cultivate a continuous improvement culture and mindset across the business such as using cascading metrics strategic objectives and key results, adoption of a Daily Management System, enabling standard work, using visual management, and standard follow up.

Cultivate and support CI champions throughout the organization who can be partners in driving the adoption of process improvement principles, practices and tools.

Promote consistency and standardization (one way of doing things) across the organization with emphasis on training and standardized follow-up.

Partner with leaders to deliver significant and quantifiable process improvement and financial benefit across the business. Assist leadership in establishing and communicating baseline and target metrics for key processes and revising those metrics over time.

In collaboration with the Learning and Development team and Continuous Improvement colleagues, provide training and assessment on process improvement concepts and tools at various levels and help build out educational pathways for CI champions.

Manage process improvement data analysis and reporting activities for the organization internally. Create and deliver reports, recommendations, and written/oral presentations to leadership groups.

Reduce manual work by helping implement systems to better manage the flow of data and work with IT to implement automation and generative A