Associate Director Manufacturing Operations

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About this role

The Associate Director, Manufacturing Operations will lead a global 12-20 person international direct hire team of program managers across the 11 site Commercial Fire footprint to deliver on $59M in productivity as well as support and drive strategic business objectives to grow the Commercial Fire business to $1.1B in 2024.

This includes but is not limited to creating long range plans for the Commercial Fire business, developing the strategic business reviews objectives and deliverables, identifying and leading productivity initiatives, developing and monitoring schedules of operational projects, maintaining proper staffing levels and skill sets, training, mentoring and developing employees, performing performance reviews, holding self and direct reports accountable for meeting project and corporate objectives, and working closely with other departments to build a cohesive team and overcome departmental boundaries.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and enable a global team of 12-20 Program Managers who are responsible for cross functionally managing $20-50M in productivity pipeline and savings opportunities for Commercial Fire.

· Manage material and logistics productivity program for Commercial Fire which closed 2023 with $375M in spend across 5 manufacturing sites and 2 distribution centers.

o Work with global site leads to drive monthly action items targeted to achieve a minimum of 5% productivity or $18M total savings for 2024.

· Coordinate 10-20 person project teams for cross functional operations strategy programs to deliver $3.2M in EBIT savings for Commercial Fire across global cross-functional transfer of works, localization efforts, and operational projects for 5 manufacturing sites and 2 distribution centers.

· Manage global production volume shifts to mitigate $3.7M in tariffs (33% reduction) for the overall Commercial Fire and Edwards business.

· Forecast and manage $5.1M in CAPEX spend to support localization and operations strategy program production ramp ups to ensure minimal impact to customer on time delivery during transfer timelines.

Manages 3-5 Senior Managers within operations to provide direction and guidance for:

· Edwards Operations: manufacturing and delivery

· Distribution Centers globally

· Navojoa Program management – Senior Managers

· Poland senior managers

· TOW senior managers

Establish cadence and report out standardization to ensure Commercial Fire delivers a minimum of $24M in inventory reduction in 2024.

· Organize 7 site leads to drive action items targeted to achieve monthly financial KPIs

· Coordinate weekly cross functional updates across 7 sites to identify risks and opportunities to meeting monthly net inventory targets

Individually coordinate strategic initiatives to grow revenue to $1.1B (4.4% growth) across all business functions and impacting 11 global sites for Commercial Fire.

· Develop and collaborate on the strategic Long Range Plan (LRP) for Commercial Fire with the VP GM of the business

· Establish and implement strategic agenda for 2024 Commercial Fire Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with VP GM of the business

· Organize and manage Commercial Fire ELT initiatives to deliver on 9% order growth, achieve $228M in EBIT, $18M in productivity, $24M in inventory reduction, and reach $185M in cash flow by the end of 2024

· Lead cross functional preparation for Carrier and Fire & Security Executive Leadership Team discussions

· Assist and drive additional activities to achieve 2024 Commercial Fire objectives per VP GM direction

Continue driving day to day direction, goals, methods, coaching, escalation and development across all global direct reports and the Commercial Fire executive team that include but is not limited to:

· Prioritize and manage people, projects, and resources to optimize efficiency, productivity and quality for successful on-time delivery, warehouse optimization, systems optimization and drive lean, sustainable practices throughout the organization

· Implements disentanglement strategies, Greenfield opportunities, and Transfer of Work initiatives to support short-term and long-term business objectives.

· Develop project charters, work plans and assign resources in support of departmental initiative