Ingram Micro - Senior Manager - Business Process Excellence

This role is responsible for leading, promoting and facilitating the successful implementation and execution of the Lean Operating System, including Kaizen, within Distribution/Logistics operations.

This position will partner with Site operations and other functional leadership, and key customers, to drive sustained continuous improvement results and to create a culture of continuous improvement. The position provides updates and feedback on the progress for various lean initiatives into the site leadership, and to country/business unit leadership team as well as the global Lean team on a regular basis.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Drive continuously improving results by leveraging Lean principles, practices and tools, consulting skills, and change management processes

- Assist country/business unit leadership in the development of a Lean transformation hopper and schedules with planned resource allocations

- Directly provide formal and informal Lean training and capability building

- Promote and facilitate associate development in various Lean tools, lean operations, and kaizen leadership

- Ensure productive kaizen events through leading and coaching teams

- Implement operational balanced scorecard (safety, quality, delivery and productivity) metrics for the designated operations scope

- Promote and facilitate diagnosis of workflow impediments and other wastes throughout the business, and provide subject matter expertise on appropriate tools to eliminate them

- Improve Lean body of knowledge, training and facilitation skills by pursuing continual Lean learning

- Actively participate in the Lean Leader global community to benchmark and incorporate best practices

This role will generate a significant multiple of invested cost in terms of value creation (expected 5-8x)