Fortive Business System Leader- Remote

The Accruent FBS Leader is responsible for promoting and facilitating the successful implementation of the Fortive Business System across the Accruent Operating Company. This position is responsible for coaching the business to achieve their strategic initiatives through implementation and execution of FBS for the commercial organization including sales, marketing, product management, customer success and other functions, as necessary. The goal of the role will be to leverage Fortive best practices, FBS toolset and personal knowledge and capability to install and improve processes to deliver growth at Accruent.

This position is ideal for both internal and external candidates.  Internal candidates will obtain significant value from increasing their FBS competency, capacity, and leadership, allowing them to leverage this in their career progression and advancement at Fortive.  This position will afford external candidates the opportunity to learn FBS and to be able to leverage this learning as they progress within their career at Fortive.  Typical duration in this role is 2 to 3 years but can extend longer based on the need to fully implement process changes and deliver results. 

How You'll Make a Difference:

• Promotion and build the FBS culture within Accruent through regular FBS communication, coaching, training, and business support to drive growth
• Assist Accruent Leadership in developing their FBS roadmap including:
  1. Education on how to apply the FBS tools at Gemba to drive sustainable improvement in results
  2. Provide coaching to the team on how to achieve their strategic plans
  3. Support in development and lead management of effective Kaizen funnels
  4. Help identify areas where there is an opportunity for team development through Champion status or Ignite programs
  5. Participate in President’s Kaizen, Policy Deployment, Operations Review and Daily Management reviews to provide feedback and engagement to improve the quality and results.
• Demonstrate FBS through facilitation of Kaizen at Gemba, driving continuous improvement and building FBS capability within Accruent.
• Support Accruent’s execution of the commercial strategy through building a FBS roadmap leveraging:
  1. Voice of the customer, problem solving process, digital marketing, lead generation, sales funnel management, value selling, transformative marketing, etc. to deliver growth.
  2. Dream (ideation) and the growth accelerator to deliver products that are solving the most critical problems for our customers.
  3. Processes to deliver efficiency and margin expansion such as price leakage.
• Ensure successful kaizen events by installing and ensuring compliance to the kaizen process:
  1. Planning of kaizens with a dynamic funnel process tied to Policy Deployment, Business Plan and Daily Management
  2. Kaizen execution including charters, pre-work, event, and report outs
  3. Sustainment of Kaizens
• Provide at least 2 weeks of capacity to help other OpCos and FBSO in the development and implementation of FBS tools and processes.
• Help Fortive continue the evolution of the FBS tools (through the FBS Office). Provide feedback based on personal experience, Accruent best practices, and experience/results from processes/tools implemented at Accruent.
• Continued focus on developing personal capability by achieving champion status on critical FBS tools, benchmarking other OpCos to implement at Accruent and engaging with the FBSO as necessary.

Core Competencies:

• Facilitation – must be able to facilitate large and small groups in the achievement of a desired outcome. Must be able to handle situations that require strong problem solving to map a path forward when the situation is complex, requires crucial conversations, or when the group is stuck and unable to make progress.
• Teamwork - must be able to lead a team(s) of Fortive employees from multiple disciplines, as well as function (when needed) as a member of the team to achieve the desired outcome.
• Deep Customer Understanding – must be able to deeply understand the customer’s jobs-to-be-done to deliver customer value and experiences to drive growth at Accruent.
• Ability to coach and influence others - must be able to inform, convince, and persuade others to action on key initiatives. Must be comfortable operating in environments where the actions are not owned by the FBSL but are driving through the follow-through and sustainment of those in the line roles.
• Results orientation - must deliver results and be able to maintain focus on achieving the results.
• Technical excellence