
Jr Operational Excellence Manager
- Santo Antônio - RN São Paulo - SP
- Permanente
- Período integral
- Work with executives and business leaders to develop project deployment strategy, implement change management approach, goals and priorities.
- Lead and support execution of complex short, mid and long terms projects for all functions in the region, managing resources, budget and timing to meet the annual strategic objectives.
- Lead local team and influence regional activities, developing people for opportunities in the Organization.
- Lead and support process development, deployment and improvement to enhance business capabilities to achieve desired functional performance.
- Manage projects portfolio to ensure strategic priorities are aligned with annual basis initiatives.
- Have a growth mindset to incorporate internal and external best practices (share and re-apply) to break paradigms in the identification of opportunity areas and solution definition.
- Contribute to the Global Excellence Team identifying opportunities for improvement and monitoring/reporting risks to Leadership Team in Latin America.
- Manage savings portfolio from all functions, coordinating meetings with local and regional teams, establishing execution plans and risks reports.
- Implement technology, systems and applications, sharing the best innovation practices and process improvement in all hubs in the region, using tools and reporting systems.
- Explore forums to share good practices between countries and external consultants to promote excellence and innovation, standardizing, integrating and developing continuous improvement culture in the Organization.
- Team management experience with demonstrated proficiency on leading others.
- Demonstrated ability to make decisions effectively and create focus.
- Self-motivated and ability to motivate others to achieve results.
- Strong oral, writing and presentation skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills such as self-initiation.
- Business acumen or experience in Supply Chain functions.
- Ability to simplify strategy into actions with a strong focus on execution.
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution.
- Certification as Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma or Design Thinking with proven proficiency on its execution.
- Experience as Project Manager with analytics and execution control skills.
- Successfully led continuous improvement projects resulting in meaningful process improvements or savings.
- Ability to manage small to mid-size project teams including hosting of workshops and Kaizen events, deploying toolsets such as VSM, Standard Work, VOC, QFD.
- Experience using statistical and Business Intelligence software tools, such as Tableau, Minitab, JMP, Power BI and other similar tools.
- Ability to build and promote organizational change management initiatives.
- Proficient with using advanced tools in standard Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).
- Ability to build and maintain solutions throughout Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate, Power App, Power BI).
- Experience on exploring Artificial Intelligence for workspace innovation.
- Portuguese native, fluent in English and Spanish.
- Experience managing projects or initiatives for continuous improvement and/or optimization of Supply Chain processes.
- Experience in supply chain operations: Planning, Customer Service, Warehouses, Transportation or Foreign Trade.
- SAP, Nodum and/or experience in other ERPs.
- Finance, Statistical, Engineering, Marketing or Business Administration background.
- Master's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent experience
- Prior Lean Six Sigma experience implementing Lean thinking in business processes.
- Agile methodologies proficiency.