What are the responsibilities and job description for the Performance Improvement Leader position at Sealed Air Corporation?
Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
Job Summary:
The Performance Improvement Leader is responsible for continuous improvement efforts for the site and ensuring business objectives are in alignment with key performance indicators (KPI’s), departmental goals, and improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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Leading continuous improvement initiatives focused on improving performance.
- This will include routine status reviews of the Focused Improvement Registries across the site for effectiveness and impact to goals.
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Developing and proposing goals which support strategic business objectives for the site.
- Ensuring these goals are cascaded throughout the site and also ensure improvement initiatives are in place to reach these goals.
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Ensuring the Performance Management System is implemented and sustained through verification at all levels of the organization.
- This includes having an effective system in place that ensures audits are taking place at all levels of responsibility.
- Coaching all levels of the site on the Performance Management System with a focus on 3 principles of lean leadership; Go See, Ask Why, and Always Show Respect.
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Ensuring proper training is provided for all levels to support and sustain the Performance Management System.
- This includes training on the Performance Management System implementation and also lean tools to support the system.
- Tracking performance to planned levels/targets and make sure the PCDA cycle is functioning in a manner that addresses gaps.
- Synchronizing the site with global improvement activities and initiatives.
- Ensuring best practices from site are shared with others.
- Recommending disciplinary action to Managers.
- Assisting in policy deployment for the site including goal setting and tracking of execution.
Qualifications:
- Education, Experience & Certifications:
- Bachelor Degree required, technical degree preferred
- 5-8 years minimum manufacturing experience
- Prior experience in a role leading change management initiatives
- Prior experience in high-volume operations
- Green Belt Certification preferred
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Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Working knowledge of lean manufacturing principles
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with professional presentation and negotiation skills
- Polished presentation, business acumen and facilitation skills
- Strong organization and planning skills
- Ability to work both independently and within a team, generating results with general/minimal guidance from management
- Ability to be flexible, innovative and comfortable in setting own priorities
Requisition id: 50624
Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
- Please be cautious of fraudulent recruiting efforts using the Sealed Air name or logo. Sealed Air will never request private information during the application process, such as a Driver's License or Social Security Number. If you have any concerns about information received from SEE during the application process, please reach out to us directly at globalta@sealedair.com.
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