Sr Business Partner - Continuous Improvement

When our square shaped burgers made their first sizzle on the scene more than 50 years ago, people knew our approach wasn’t like any other. Same goes for the way we support our employees. Our culture of openness, flexibility, and inclusiveness allows everybody to flourish in their own way. If you’re looking for a career where you can be part of the action as we continue to grow our iconic brand – We got you!

Overview:

As a member of the Continuous Improvement (CI) and THRIVE team, we want you to be energized by the opportunity to lead culture change at Wendy’s. This position will require you to be comfortable:

• Leveraging lean-thinking to achieve process improvements, cost savings, and productivity goals
• Strong financial modeling and data analytics background
• Coaching high visibility/high impact projects
• Facilitating large, complex meetings including those with senior leadership
• Driving cost and productivity savings by building team capability and CI skills at all levels across the enterprise
• Building connections between individuals, teams, processes, and systems

• Maintain CI and THRIVE cost savings project portfolio in partnership with functional leaders.
• Provide project consulting and coaching, utilizing continuous improvement tools to ensure project success in partnership with assigned project managers. This includes partnering with project managers to define project goals and desired outcomes, track project benefits, and provide change management guidance.
• Develop and provide CI training to help build team capability while ensuring consistency in training content and approach across the enterprise.
• Provide ad-hoc subject matter expertise to help drive process improvement, support problem solving, innovation, etc.
• Partner with functional leaders to identify their CI goals by evaluating existing functional objectives and long-range plans, processes and outputs, and team project portfolios. This includes partnering with functional and team leadership to identify KPIs to track, measure, and improve team performance.
• Support project prioritization and team capacity planning in partnership with functional leadership.
• Help analyze cost savings opportunities and work with finance and business partners to quantify outcomes.

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• Bachler's Degree is preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience leading Continuous Improvement projects and culture change within large, complex organizations (with Bachelor’s Degree).
• 5-7 years of experience leading Continuous Improvement projects and culture change within large, complex organizations (without Bachelor’s Degree).
• Must have excellent Microsoft Office skills (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.).
• Competencies:
  • Interpersonal skills necessary to interact effectively with a variety of individuals, including internal and external customers.
  • Experience influencing others, including senior leaders.
  • Skilled at developing and delivering training content and leading large workshops.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication.
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to multi-task and shift priorities.
  • Ability to interpret and analyze data and make recommendations based on findings.
  • Detail oriented with strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Well-rounded lean and project management experience.

Wendy’s was built on the premise, "Quality is our Recipe®," which remains the guidepost of the Wendy's system. Today, Wendy's and its franchisees employ hundreds of thousands of people across more than 7,000 restaurants worldwide with a vision of becoming the world's most thriving and beloved restaurant brand.

The base pay range for this position is listed below. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and budget for the open position and also may vary depending on the candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other relevant factors. This range does not include an estimated value for any benefits, bonus, or other incentives that may be applicable based on position.*  The target annual bonus for this role is 10% of annualized base salary, based on actual company and personal performance. 

Our square burgers make us different and so do our benefits! Our restaurant support roles are eligible for a wide array of benefits, including things such as parental leave, free EAP sessions, company 401k match and other great offerings. For more details about our benefits, including an overview of eligibility and terms for certain benefits, please visit our benefits website, www.wendysbenefits.com.*

*NOTE: Wendy’s benefits, bonus, and other incentives are governed by the applicable legal plans and policies and, where appropriate, may be subject to Board approval an individual award agreement terms. Those documents supersede all other information regarding Wendy’s benefits, bonus, and other incentives. Wendy’s retains the right to amend or terminate its plans and policies at its sole discretion, in accordance with applicable plans, policies and laws.

Salary : $77,000 - $131,000