Lead Operational Excellence Associate

Joining Beacon Building Products as a Lead Operational Excellence Associate means becoming part of a values-driven organization. Our core principles guide everything we do: putting people first, prioritizing safety, doing what's right, taking pride in our work, continuously improving, and making significant strides towards a more future.

Be part of BUILDing a better tomorrow with Beacon, a leading Fortune 500 distributor of roofing materials and complementary building products in the United States and Canada. At Beacon, you'll be part of a company committed to making a difference.

What You Will Earn

• Competitive Pay: We make sure that your hard work is recognized.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits: Experience the peace of mind that comes with our comprehensive benefits package designed to prioritize your well-being.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP): Bolster your financial growth. Invest in your future and become a stakeholder by purchasing company shares at a 15% discount twice annually.
• 401(k) Match: Ensure a secure future with fair matching of your retirement contributions.
• Paid Leave: Recharge and find work-life balance, flexible parental leave for quality family time, generous sick leave, and enjoy paid time off, company holidays, and floating holidays to unwind and pursue personal interests.
• Paid Training and Advancement Opportunities: Open doors to exciting possibilities by engaging in our dynamic learning programs, which include the opportunity to earn valuable certifications.
  
  

What You Will Do

The Lead Operations Excellence Associate is a key Divisional leadership position reporting directly to the Senior Manager, Operations Excellence. This role is primarily responsible for the effective transition of Beacon’s branches to “Beacon Branch of the Future” (BB of F) in their assigned Division. The critical role will be responsible for implementing a phased approach to increase productivity and capacity in their branches and warehouses.. Also, this leader will collaborate with regional and district leaders, branch managers, facility managers and divisional finance to ensure that new and revised locations are set up to maximize customer service, operational productivity and branch consistency while supporting Beacon’s objectives with respect to growth, acquisitions, and greenfield sites.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Engage with Divisional leadership and branches to develop timeline, process, standards, and measurements to implement Beacon Branch of the Future (BB of F) in their assigned Division ensuring that seasonality, lease roll off dates, market requirements and workforce engagement are fully addressed.
• Work closely with members of the Strategic Expansion Team to ensure greenfield locations, On Time & Complete (OTC) hubs and new branches from acquisitions are established based on BB of F guidelines and processes.
• Develop coherent strategy and tactics with required timing to ensure effective transition of the Division’s branches to BB of F format.
• Schedule, plan and implement branch conversion from location identification, planning and branch engagement to scheduling and providing full support to the local teams including BMs, DMs, and RVPs.
• Partner with Manager, Real Estate & Manager, Facilities and Beacon’s external Leasing and Facilities provider to align BB o F principles and processes to greenfield locations including build to suit, existing sites and OTC hubs.
• Supporting the field with other productivity projects like transfer and third-party freight reduction.
• Lead training and implementation of Final Mile software to drive fleet efficiencies.
• Coordinate activities related layout, equipment, and contractor efforts and set up to ensure maximum service to the identified BM & DM.
• Develop a working cadence with functional departments such as FP&A, Supply Chain, Sales, Fleet and Safety to uncover cost-savings opportunities and organic productivity in the BB o F process.
• Partner with facilities team and district leaders to ensure effective moves of branches result in new BB o F facilities.
• Set targets for all new facilities and demonstrate dollarized impact that meets or beats cost targets
• Leverage branch lean assessments & Beacon Branch of the Future initiative to ensure branch layouts, flow, fleet productivity and sales per hour are optimized.
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field of service preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated progressive experience in both distribution and transportation.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives.
• Proficient with Personal Computer applications (Excel, Word, Power Point, AutoCAD, AS400 Based Warehouse Management Systems, TMS, Fleet Management and Routing Tools).
• Superior and demonstrated leadership, team building, communication, presentation, interpersonal, and coaching skills and the ability to ensure accountability using Lean Management Principles.
• Six Sigma Yellow or Green Belt certification preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to develop comprehensive company programs and processes.
• Proven experience managing cost savings and yield improvement projects.
• Ability to prioritize and drive multiple projects and teams.
• Excellent communications skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to travel up to 50%