Process Excellence/Business Integration Lead

Role: Process Excellence/Business Integration Lead- Direct Hire

Start Date: ASAP

Location: Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite- South Metro, MN

Rate: $125K-$135K annually depending on experience, plus bonus bonus potential based on company performance.

**This is a direct hire role and the client does not provide visa sponsorship**

Client offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.

The Process Lead will demonstrate results through facilitating and developing the documentation of key business processes narratives and maps, identification of process standardization opportunities and workstream leadership leveraged during major systems or process initiatives, and leading or facilitating creation of standard work/process where none exists.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Strong business process competency in Trade Marketing & Sales
• System and process focused mindset with ability to understand how technology can support and enable.
• Strong cross-functional business acumen.
• Ability and willingness to collaborate across multiple functional areas to achieve desired integrated business results.
• Very strong process orientation, able to understand detailed processes and to identify process synergies between teams, and between acquired business and current processes, to create business value.
• Drive fact-based improvement decisions within the team and across the company.
• Develop effective cross-functional relationships based on trust, and alignment with business goals.
• Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Advanced skills in gap identification, escalation, and evaluation of trade-off options and impacts.
• Demonstrated ability in defining complex business problems and working with key stakeholders to identify possible solutions.
• Ability to attack complex business issues and simplify for decision-making and execution.

Education & Experience:

• B.S. in Business, Engineering, Finance, Marketing or related field. MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Understanding of end-to-end business processes across the Market to Trade workstream (Sales, Trade Marketing)
• 3 Year’s experience in project/process management, operations management, or similar experience.
• Prior merger and acquisition experience in a business lead role desired.
• Experience in high-level process design and systems implementation and support with a track record of accomplishment in large, complex systems environments.

Key Characteristics:

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop and foster relationships at all levels of the organization
• Organized and process driven
• Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and attentive to detail
• Demonstrated team player
• Results oriented
• Courageous
• Able to lead without direct authority and influence across operating functions and levels
• Learning agile in ambiguous situations; conceptual openness and willingness to learn

This position is a key member of the Process Excellence and Business Integration team who is responsible for leading the strategy for planning and execution of M&A integrations as well as enabling process capabilities and best practices. The Process Excellence Lead will drive continuous improvement, process documentation, and installation of new business requirements, as well as leadership for the planning and execution of M&A integration for their assigned area of accountability in the Trade Marketing & Sales workstream. This role will set continuous improvement of business processes and integration strategy and priorities from a business function point of view and will work closely with the Executive team and functional business leaders to ensure impactful process re-engineering, and timely business integrations related to mergers & acquisitions. The Process Excellence and Integration lead will influence teams focused on our most core business process work-streams included in: manufacturing, supply chain, finance and procurement, HR/payroll, and pricing and trade management. The Process Excellence Lead will build and foster relationships across the enterprise in process disciplines and improvement methodologies that yield desired outcomes, including realization of business benefits and impact.