Job Description
- Job Description:
- Serve as the Scrap and Manufacturing Process Waste Reduction Network Program Lead, including definition of measurement systems, visibility, and reporting for material, process, and performance-related waste.
- Act as Operations Productivity Lead, managing business productivity process implementation and ongoing evolution across the network.
- Partner with Site FP&A teams to align definitions, standardize financial measures, and ensure consistent application of productivity, scrap, labor, and cost-of-sales metrics across global manufacturing sites.
- Define and drive labor efficiency and workforce utilization optimization metrics, including financial impact assessment and prioritization insights to support workforce strategy decisions.
- Lead alignment of financial and operational performance metrics across SAP S/4, MES, and emerging AI-driven analytics solutions, in partnership with Operations Finance and AI & Data teams.
- Drive automation of next-generation manufacturing performance metrics to enable scalable, timely, and decision-ready insights.
- Ensure consistency and integrity of financial inputs supporting manufacturing execution, productivity, and cost-of-sales initiatives across the global manufacturing network.
- Establish performance measurement systems that translate business performance into financial insights, enabling fact-based decision-making.
- Drive capacity optimization analyses and develop cost attribution models that translate manufacturing execution and capacity decisions into clear financial impact to support network-level decision-making.
- Lead the Bend the Cost Curve initiative for Manufacturing, defining initiatives and tracking value realization across the network.
- Deliver financial value by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, with emphasis on scrap and waste reduction, productivity optimization, and cost-of-sales improvement.
- Requirements:
- Doctorate degree and 3 years of manufacturing or operations experience
- Master’s degree and 5 years of manufacturing or operations experience
- Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of manufacturing or operations experience
- Associate’s degree and 12 years of manufacturing or operations experience
- High school diploma / GED and 14 years of manufacturing or operations experience
- Proven ability to partner cross-functionally to identify and enable technology-driven cost-of-sales improvement opportunities in manufacturing.
- Experience with capital finance rules and policy.
- Experience translating business performance into clear financial insights, tracking, and forecasts.
- Demonstrated ability to lead network-wide, cross-functional initiatives that are both strategic and technical (e.g., program leadership, value tracking).
- Experience integrating financial and operational data across ERP (SAP S/4), MES, and advanced analytics platforms.
- Experience driving automation and standardization of performance metrics in a manufacturing or operations environment.
- Benefits:
- A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
- group medical, dental and vision coverage
- life and disability insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans
- Flexible work models where possible.
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