Business Partner, Black Belt, Business Transformation | Primient

About Primient

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet. We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

About the Role

Business Partner, Black Belt, Business Transformation 

About the Role

The Business Transformation Black Belt will be responsible for building Continuous Improvement (CI) capabilities across the organization and leading a portfolio of initiatives supporting the Company goals.  The position will act as a lead change agent for lean process improvement implementations and improvement of capabilities of people and systems. This position will foster a culture of continuous improvement and sustainment while facilitating and educating continuous improvement tools across the organization.

The Business Transformation Black Belt role assists in operationalizing daily work improvements into the culture of the organization to achieve measurable and sustainable business efficiencies while developing relationships across all levels of the organization.  The role will focus in and solve complex issues related to non-manufacturing processes across Primient.

  The candidate will support and mentor to both business leaders as well as improvement team members embedded in the business.  The incumbent will be an advocate for embedding continuous improvement programs within Primient.

Key responsibilities: Business Transformation Black Belt

• Mentors, coaches and trains Green Belts and other members of project teams.
• Black Belt must be clear and effective communicators to succeed in their roles as Six Sigma leaders, mentors, coaches and trainers. In the course of their day, Black Belts will communicate with employees at all levels of the company. They must be able to speak the language of CI and Lean 6 Sigma.
• Plan and manage a portfolio of process improvement initiatives using industry recognized process improvement methodologies and tools
• Conduct and facilitate process improvement projects and ongoing facility gap assessments around continuous improvement efforts
• Act as a change agent to foster and support a daily work improvement culture throughout the organization
• Participate/facilitate process improvement and strategic goal setting sessions throughout the business
• Drive the data collection and analytics to identify opportunities for improvement
• Collaborate with internal partners to ensure effective integration of initiatives as well as to foster collaborative and organizational learning
• Analyze opportunities as well as guide and plan actions around continuous improvement initiatives
• Propose and implement process improvements
• Identify trends and process variations as part of establishing a continuous improvement monitoring system
• Assist in development of company wide CI strategies
• Supports the business in decision making through data and interpretation from a lean perspective
• Assist in standardizing and sharing Best-In-Class continuous improvement practices throughout the organization.

About You

Competencies

• Team Facilitation
• Problem Solving
• Effective Analytical Skills
• Change Agent
• Communication (Verbal and Written)
• Presentation Skills
• Computer Skills (Excel, Minitab, Powerpoint)
• Program and Project Management
• Business Acumen
• Ability to recognize and evaluate new project ideas

Qualifications

Requires a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business or related field. Requires Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt training and certification.

Experience

Requires 3 or more years of experience leading complex Continuous Improvement projects across a wide range of business units.  Proven track record and knowledge using