COS is our business strategy to attain sustained exceptional results.  This strategy includes the engagement and development of our people around the notion of ‘better every day’.  COS emphasizes teamwork and creativity and guides how we work, solve problems, and improve.  COS is how Carlisle creates greater value for our customers and stakeholders

 

The Director of the Carlisle Operating System – Business Process is the primary COS business partner for leading the review & implementation of the Carlisle Operating System Leadership Standard Work detailed action plans. This position will partner with corporate, administrative, functional areas and operations leadership to ensure that an effective enterprise-wide process for execution of critical action items are  implemented and sustained. The COS leadership will deliver practical, hands-on training and mentoring to associates on Lean methodology and tools to eliminate waste in our businesses. The Director will lead, measure, and report progress on an ongoing basis and assure standardization of COS and Continuous Improvement methodologies throughout the enterprise and focused on non-operations functional areas business processes.

Key Functions and Responsibilities

• Ensures the continued development of COS and ongoing monthly execution, evaluation/effectiveness of countermeasures at the Business Unit level and functional area level.
• Participates and manages the Corporation’s Policy Deployment Process and is responsible for coordinating the Business Unit’s Deployment Process to ensure alignment with the overall objectives of the Corporation and attainment of annual operating plan.
• Ensures that the COS Office is structured and has established standard work and monthly cadence to review all L1 & L2 3-Deep actions including detailed TDPs.  
• Partner with the functional area leaders to plan, schedule, review and provide feedback and insight to the effectiveness of detailed action items and monthly TDP reviews.
• Provides assessment on overall stability, performance, and effectiveness of our established business processes standard work.
• Encourage/support usage of COS methodology for daily execution, problem solving, and improvement to attain work team, value stream, business process, and performance objectives.
• Partner with others to guide enterprise-wide process improvements and the COS continuous improvement maturity progression. Drive and participate in standard methodology and knowledge sharing activities and support data driven decision making.
• Assess organizational gaps and assist in determining appropriate intervention activities.
• Contribute improvements to training materials, guidebooks, and other deployment/implementation documentation and processes.
• Set organizational goals and ensure their alignment across all levels and functions. Strengthens culture by reinforcing problem-solving, clear accountability, and creates an environment of setting and accomplishing high expectations.
• Mentors future leaders within organization, while supporting talent movement between Divisions and Business Units. Make developing talent a priority by utilizing the talent management process.
• Accomplish business objectives in a culture that values high-performance teams as critical to the achievement of business results. Excellence without arrogance. Can execute with decisiveness, determination, speed, and confidence while requiring little to no follow up or supervision.
• Reinforces the value and importance of COS by modeling COS implementation in all their work. As well as ensures continuous improvement method is operationalized across organization.
• Create and maintain gap analysis of existing Operational processes, policies, products and tools; lead cross-functional efforts to synthesize and drive remediation plans for each, and constantly lead remediation efforts
• Lead and perform internal audits of business processes on an as needed basis, to evaluate adherence to COS standards, identify process inefficiencies, and bridge gaps between documented procedures and actual practices. Collaborate with functional leaders to translate audit findings into actionable improvement plans and monitor progress through closure.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to lead with a customer focus culture by fostering an entrepreneurial environment with strong innovation, appropriate levels of risk, and by listening to customers and employees to deliver quality solutions to customer expec