Job Description Summary

As the Industrial Strategy and Transformation Operations Leader you will support the industrial base transformation to drive the achievement of business outcomes through strong operation rhythms, deployment of FLIGHT DECK and continuous improvement of processes. This role requires a high amount of autonomy, and significant levels of operational judgment to achieve outcomes for specific KPI performance and strategic initiative implementation.

This role will directly influence the team's ability to translate the integrated industrial base strategy into execution and sustained SQDC results at the specified target dates required. Influencing, motivating and coaching skills will be required on a daily basis. Additionally, this role will have ownership over the standard work processes, playbook development, progress tracking.

To do well in the role, you must have a combination of people, leadership & communication skills, operational expertise, an eye for detail and great organizational skills. Requires high “say do ratio” as well as the ability to process and analyze data and stakeholder feedback to support business decisions. The Operations Leader will work to build a network and connectivity across commodities team, part families teams and also across the Sourcing organization - including the supplier development, quality, delivery, compliance, commercial operations, and finance partners.

This role is open to remote consideration.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for all operating rhythms, KPI management, and operational and process improvements; facilitates connectivity across commodity and partner sourcing teams.
• Lead operating rhythms with effective use of time, KPI’s or operating metrics, action plans, problem solving & other FLIGHT DECK tools. Create and evolve operating rhythms as needed for outcomes. Train, mentor and coach the team through problem solving.
• Develop and execute communication plan for the commodity between leader, staff, and all local, global, or remote team members.
• Drive daily/weekly/monthly KPI management for the commodity and sub-sections. Develop thorough metrics, scorecards, and control plans to measure and sustain KPI’s. Review ongoing performance to targets, evaluate misses and work to identify and deploy corrective measures with accountable leaders and/or escalate issues as necessary.
• Uses lean practices and behaviors to improve the effectiveness of the interaction between commodity strategy, buying, and contract & performance management team(s). Develop processes for handoffs between roles and functions, and inclusive of local, global or remote team members.
• Interface and lead engagements with other adjacent functions (Quality, Part Families, Commercial Ops, Sourcing Commodities, Compliance, Finance, etc) to provide effective coordination of metrics, dashboards, functional processes, and cross-functional coordination.
• Ownership of industrial strategy standard work process including process improvements, implementation, , and playbook codification
• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems across commodity, part families, sourcing organization, or partner organizations such as engineering or product lines.
• Deploy process improvements– inclusive of strategic initiatives, operational process changes, and digital tools.
• Support the site Kaizen process and the Continuous Improvement suggestions for ideas and suggestions from the teams.
• Execute solution-based approaches for team culture, training/onboarding, and change acceleration.
• Interprets complex internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may inform work. Conduct training and follow up to ensure adoption.
• Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Commercial Operations, Sourcing/ Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Sales, Supply Chain or Contract Management roles

Desired Characteristics:

• Analytical skills
• Ability to influence cross-functionally to drive change
• Ability to lead multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Demonstrate ability to analyze and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market,