6 Senior Manager, Operational Excellence Jobs in Chicago, IL
HelloFresh is Hiring a Senior Manager, Operational Excellence Near Chicago, IL
Summary/Objective:
As the Senior Manager, Operational Excellence, you will drive OpEx capability development programs for the company and partner with functional leaders to define and execute improvement initiatives across the entire HelloFresh US operations. This individual will coordinate with local Distribution Center and Central teams to drive improved performance in Quality, Service, and Efficiency. In addition to general knowledge of Operational Excellence techniques, the Senior Manager, Operational Excellence should also have subject matter expertise in one or more specific areas of operations.
The Senior Manager, Operational Excellence identifies key opportunities and gaps in the core business processes; aligns resources to these priorities; ensures appropriate charters and quality improvement methodologies, tools and techniques are being leveraged to drive improvements; and continues to be an advocate for future operational improvements by partnering with and challenging the business and leadership in system thinking and new ideas.
Essential Functions
- Responsible for development and implementation of HF Operations Strategic projects including Continuous Improvement, Change Management, cost optimization, and Operational Excellence Training.
- Assist in leading large scale and complex improvement projects within operations or across facilities and effectively coordinate these programs with the project teams.
- Assure that practices promoting continuous improvement are adopted by the organization to drive improvements in morale, quality, delivery and cost.
- Project leadership includes: identifying opportunities; defining and financially justifying projects; negotiating resources; launching project teams; using good project management to manage team activities; training and coaching of Lean resources assigned to the team; leading teams to execute projects with problem solving methodology; tracking project status and results; anticipating and removing project barriers; and developing team members.
- Ensure projects are integrated and aligned with other business activities, improvement projects and business strategy and coordinated with the appropriate project/process owners to accomplish the project goals (whenever possible).
- Communicate best practices and key learning's across the organization.
- Support the company's commitment to employee engagement, critical thinking and innovation
- Utilizes continuous improvement tools and methodology to conduct root cause analysis
- Leads risk identification and risk mitigating planning
- You lead change management planning and execution for projects. Ensures effective, accurate, and timely communication of project information to meet the needs of identified partners.
- Utilizes negotiation, facilitation, meeting management, and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional team performance.
- Facilitates project post-mortems with all key partners and identify key areas for process improvements
- Manage a small team of direct reports. Influence a large team of indirect reports including associates, managers, and leaders across the US.
- Ability to travel up to 75% of the time.
- May perform other duties as assigned.
- Leadership
- Time Management
- Respectful Coaching Techniques
- Thoroughness
- Performance Management of team members
- Detail Oriented and Results Driven
- Conflict Resolution
- Cross functional collaboration
- Selection and Interviewing skills
- Bachelor's degree and related management work experience.
- At least 5 years of work experience in a production environment
- Six Sigma / Lean Certification
- Master's degree.
- At least 7 years of work experience in a production environment, specifically targeted towards Continuous Improvement related work
New York Pay Range
$123,750-$165,000 USD
Illinois Pay Range
$116,250-$155,000 USD
Job Summary
Full Time
$170k-209k (estimate)
06/14/2024
06/27/2024
hellofresh.com
RICHMOND, CA
3,000 - 7,500
2011
SETH GOLDMAN
$50M - $200M
Wholesale
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About HelloFresh
HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever! From our 2011 founding in Europes vibrant tech hub Berlin, weve become the world's leading meal kit company, providing 601 million meals to 7.28 million households worldwide in 14 countries across 3 continents in 2020. HelloFresh supplies everything you need to prepare quality, delicious, home-cooked meals that require no planning, no shopping and no hassle. Every ingredient needed for our thousands of exclusive recipes is carefully planned, responsibly sourced and delivered to your door when its most convenient for you. Only He...lloFresh gives you the tools to achieve something delicious every day. Making dinner a delicious achievement - not just another meal - takes a lot of work and smart people. From Designers and Copywriters to Data Scientists and DevOps Engineers, to potato farmers, pasta makers and the people who ensure every box is perfectly packed for every customer, were collectively disrupting the food supply chain and the multi-trillion-dollar food tech industry. Our offices across the globe from New York to Berlin, London to Sydney are filled with more than 11,000 high-performing and ambitious talents from over 80 countries. Were always looking for a few missing ingredients to perfect our recipe, so join us now! https://www.hellofresh.com/careers/locations
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