GBS Continuous Improvement Process Lead

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IT Business Analyst

Account Manager III

Supply Chain Manager

Senior Research and Development / Product Development Engineer

Product Management Manager

Manager II Operations

Senior Director of Operations

Primary Function: <ul><li>The Global Business Services (GBS) Continuous Improvement Manager is responsible for driving the efficiency and productivity targets for GBS process areas and providing a path to value through various initiatives with a heavy focus on digital solutions and automation.&nbsp;</li><li>The Continuous Improvement Manager will facilitate ideation sessions, apply Kellanova Work Systems principles of value stream mapping and lean six sigma to drive standard ways of working in the process.&nbsp;</li><li>This role will be responsible for process catalogs, process mapping, governance of desktop procedures, and is the primary gatekeeper of standard ways of working within GBS.</li><li>A critical component of the role will be monetization of the value created through process efficiencies and digital solutions as well as scalability and standardization globally.</li><li>This role will work closely with various stakeholders, including senior management, operations, and business partners, to identify and prioritize the opportunities and challenges, and propose and implement effective solutions.</li><li>This role will follow standard ways of working to monitor and evaluate the results and impact of initiatives and share best practices and lessons learned</li></ul> Dimensions: <ul><li>Responsible for delivering digital solutions for GBS and driving automation, process intelligence, and analytics through organization</li><li>Own the platform architecture for GBS digital capabilities in process intelligence, automation and analytics to set GBS up for future growth and maturity across technologies</li><li>Governance of technology budget, roadmap, and metrics/measurement of digital tools in collaboration with operational results and future value stream identification</li><li>Ownership of the Digital/Data Center of Excellence to create digital kreators through GBS to make digital ways of working a part of our DNA &amp; designing a coaching program to educate analysts on digital opportunities and personal growth</li><li>Delivering on digital projects and initiatives &amp; executing change management to ensure success</li><li>Having a global, external focus for GBS and challenging the organization to deliver value, while benchmarking against peers and industry enablers</li><li>Engage GBS leaders in the future of digital &amp; educate on future opportunities through stakeholder engagement</li></ul>&nbsp;Responsibilities: <ul><li>Own and lead ideation sessions to expand organization solutioning from an automation perspective, including actioning on ideas and realizing value from solution</li><li>Develop and execute governance and best practices for Kellanova Work Systems standard ways of working, including desktop procedures, process maps, taxonomy activities, process catalogs, SIPOCs, and Project Submission Portal value realization activities</li><li>Govern continuous improvement processes within the worksteam and engage operational teams in best practices</li><li>Deliver value realization/efficiencies for the organization on a monthly basis to cumulate into productivity for GBS</li><li>Advise on global scale of solutions and standard ways of working</li><li>Act as coach for continuous improvement with operation teams and GBS leaders to build capability in value realization across GBS</li><li>Create and deliver the value roadmap for GBS, aligning with the business objectives, productivity targets, and priorities and analyze business processes to identify areas for improvement and optimization</li><li>Provide business process guidance and oversight for automation and integration projects across GBS, ensuring adherence to best practices, standards, and quality.</li><li>Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including business leaders, IT teams, vendors, and partners, to deliver efficiency solutions that meet the needs of GBS and its stakeholders</li><li>Stay abreast of the latest trends and developments in process area to enable new solutions and evaluate their applicability and suitability for GBS .</li><li>Develop and maintain metrics to measure continuous improvement projects, including cost, quality and speed metrics and maintain metric portfolio to understand state of GBS process to understand sources of loss to improve the process</li><li>Implement and leverage process intelligence to understand process waste areas and work with operational teams to realize efficiencies from analysis</li><li>Create calendar with planned CI activities for each process area, align with stakeholders on annual plan, and measure against timelines</li><li>Assess end to end processes with business partners to improve risk profile against quality metrics to drive improvement</li></ul>&nbsp;Work Environment: <ul><li>This position requires some travel and working extended and irregular hours.&nbsp;Travel is typically required less than 5 percent of the time.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Desired: Bachelors degree in business, IT, engineering, or related field.</li><li>Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in delivering value realization through continuous improvement.</li><li>Experience in managing multiple projects and tracking project success.</li><li>Knowledge of automation tools such as Celonis, PowerBI, Service Now, and other automation and analytics solutions.</li><li>Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and prioritize the opportunities and challenges, and propose and implement effective solutions.</li><li>Communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical and process improvement concepts in a clear manner to various audiences and levels.</li><li>Collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships and partnerships across the organization and with external parties</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Provide technical input to LP and economic modeling.</li><li>Develop chemical process yields, qualities, and balances for process configurations in the refining and chemical units.</li><li>Provide insights and recommendations in the financial model output and the ability to guide management to select the best configurations for LTC project cases.</li><li>Provide technical support for capital projects involving petrochemical units at various stages of the project life cycle (pre-feasibility, feasibility, pre-feed, feed basic design, detailed engineering, and construction).</li><li>Analyze the market and identifying opportunities for business growth.</li><li>Conduct research on competitors to identify opportunities for new products or services</li><li>Develop effective strategies to increase brand awareness in target markets</li><li>Research new technologies, regulations, and other factors that may affect business models</li><li>Develop effective project execution strategies, plans, and teams</li><li>Establish new client relationships and maintaining existing ones in order to generate revenue</li><li>Deliver the tools, templates, and systems to ensure the safe, passionate, and flawless delivery of the project.</li><li>Ensure stage deliverables are developed to support estimating.</li><li>liaison between project management and technical disciplines to achieve integration across all project disciplines.</li><li>Ensure that the contractor has the appropriate tools and systems for executing the project.</li><li>Ensure scope, risk, and interfaces are captured; manage interfaces between internal and external parties and document them.</li><li>Manage scope development and its impact on cost and schedule.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably chemical Engineering.</li><li>At least 15 years of related experience, with a focus in the Refining and petrochemicals industry.</li><li>At least two years’ experience in linear programming and economics modeling.</li><li>Strong experience in chemical derivative process licensor selection and technology analysis.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>The opportunity is to drive sales, increase market share, and demonstrate true ROI on merchants investments.</li><li>We seek high-performing individuals who bring positivity, solutions, and alignment with our cross-collaborative culture.</li><li>In this role, you will use data-driven insights and a consultative sales approach to create compelling pitches that drive results.</li><li>Your passion for selling impactful solutions will help improve customers bottom lines.</li><li>Youll focus on developing relationships with new customers, leveraging leads from enterprise and mid-market teams, and collaborating with the Product team to onboard them to our advanced offers platform.</li><li>We are looking for candidates with a proven track record of launching and growing ad platforms for merchant customers.</li><li>Leverage your experience and connections in sales to exceed revenue targets.</li><li>Prospecting to your book of business, pitching for successful close</li><li>Work well cross-functionally with AdOps, Sales, Marketing and other important teams</li><li>Generate a pipeline across key brand verticals including Retail, Home and Garden, Beauty, Travel, Electronics, Groceries and Dining</li><li>Build effective and long-lasting relationships with brand-side stakeholders at Director+/VP levels, becoming a trusted advisor.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Digital advertising sales, or payments sales with 6+ years of meeting and exceeding revenue targets.</li><li>Card-linked offer Sales/Management preferred&nbsp;</li><li>Breaking and growing business by developing long-term strategic partnerships.</li><li>Leveraging CRM tools to create and manage a pipeline that is consistently updated and accurate.</li><li>Data-driven selling, and you’re comfortable with business and media performance metrics.</li><li>Influencing decisions up and across an organization through excellent listening, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Utilize SAP ECC/Enterprise applications experience to enhance and streamline business processes.</li><li>Engage in business partnering to understand and address the needs of stakeholders across all key functions.</li><li>Lead the mapping and documentation of business processes across various departments.</li><li>Assist PM in Project manage/serve as PM on the delivery of IT services, ensuring value addition and coordination with regional/global teams and vendors.</li><li>Achievement of streamlined and well-documented key business processes, reducing organizational risk.</li><li>Successful definition and implementation of business requirements in collaboration with respective IT domains managers.</li><li>Effective leadership in system testing and validation for major implementations.</li><li>Support provided to finance, commercial, supply chain, and R&amp;D relationship managers through process documentation, user requirement gathering, testing oversight, and project management for small-medium projects.</li><li>Provision of business partnering services for smaller corporate functions such as HR, corporate affairs, and legal, including annual high availability application testing coordination.</li><li>Stakeholder communications and engagement.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate discipline (preferably Computer Sciences, MIS or Information System) with at least 3 years Business Analyst, Business consulting and/or Project Management and Delivery. CPG Industry is a plus but not a must</li><li>SAP hands on experience is a must (SAP ECC6 / SAP S4 HANA)</li><li>Requires experience/in-depth knowledge of business operations and IT processes, in a manufacturing context.</li><li>Self-motivated, highly visible and an engaging point of contact, who enjoys working with people</li><li>The ability to embrace change, be adaptable and foster a culture of continuous improvement</li><li>Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills</li><li>Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.</li><li>Ability to Communicate and inspire confidence with technical and non-technical audiences.</li><li>Exceptional verbal and written communication skills including technical documentation skills</li><li>Business process mapping experience.&nbsp;</li><li>Project Management experience managing multiple project streams of various complexity&nbsp;</li><li>Has the experience and cultural awareness required to work effectively with a regional and global team.</li><li>Can do attitude; high say-do.&nbsp;</li><li>Sees documentation and structure as a strong ally.&nbsp;</li><li>Proficient in English Language (Writing, reading &amp; speaking).</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Global primary interface and contact point: Serve as the primary interface between the customer and company, develop and maintain a good trusting relationship with the customer to position company as a strategic partner.</li><li>Cross functional and regional collaboration: Globally manage the escalation from client and company internal, work closely with internal teams such as regional sales, FAE, pricing, customer support and operation to ensure seamless delivery of products or services to the global footprint of client.</li><li>Interlock with OEM teams: Coordinate with multiple of OEM teams to have the strategic alignment and execution for the significant OEMs and projects to maximize company revenue and market share globally.</li><li>Lead the pricing and contract negotiations: Lead and finalize the negotiation of ODM quotation, QBR pricing and contract terms to achieve mutual beneficial outcomes for both of TE and client.</li><li>Develop and implement account plans: Regular monitoring and analyzing the account performance metrics, keep abreast of market trends, competitor activities and industry developments, providing insights and leadership to the internal co-workers. Developing strategic account plan to identify the key opportunities for business growth, addressing customer objectives and aligning company solutions and services accordingly.&nbsp;</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or above</li><li>At least 5 years of working experiences on sales or customer facing roles in the interconnect industry or in OEM/ODM</li><li>Must understand OEM/ODM business model and the culture of the industry</li><li>Excellent communication skills with the proactive approach to influence and build credible relationships with cross functional/regional teams inside and outside of company</li><li>Capable of working independently with minimal supervision to take ownership of and maintain progress on multiple tasks</li><li>Good command of English</li><li>Team player, Proactive, Self-disciplined, Multi-tasking, Problem solving</li><li>Ability to work under stress and in a fast-paced environment</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Drive, and implement standardized process of Inventory &amp; Logistics within AP which align with across AP and global strategies&nbsp;</li><li>Drive country and plants to meet SCM KPI (inventory &amp; logistics etc.) within business target.&nbsp;</li><li>Execute the lean tools to continuous improvement&nbsp;</li><li>Resolve conflicts cross sites and functions in accordance with targets&nbsp;</li><li>Plan, manage and track supply plan and be key players in S&amp;IOP process&nbsp;</li><li>Drive freight planning to minimize freightage, on time delivery and flexibility</li><li>Leverage on resources commonality across sites and work cross-regional collaboration</li><li>Conduct freight control and partner with global logistics to ensure streamlining of transportation and warehouse management</li><li>Strong execution capability to achieve the short term and long-term strategy and goals</li><li>Support training launch to improve the capability of APAC team</li></ul> Requirements:&nbsp; <ul><li>Bachelor degree, ERP expert, supply chain related certification preferable&nbsp;</li><li>Strong leadership and able to drive improvement of cross functional team&nbsp;</li><li>Over 10 years of on the job management experience with solid achievement</li><li>At least 7 years SCM experience in multinational companies in the automotive components industry&nbsp;</li><li>Over 5 years of job automotive plant and non-plant operation management&nbsp;</li><li>Focus on execution and ability to drive results</li><li>Fluent speaking in Chinese and English&nbsp;</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Technical communication with customer, confirm customer applications and technical requirements.</li><li>Translate customer’s requirements into engineering specification and provide new product design solution in time.</li><li>Responsible for part list/BOM building, 3D models and 2D drawings, GD&amp;T, product specifications, application specifications, DFMEA, Tolerance analysis etc.</li><li>Lead the design review for compliance with engineering principles, product standards such UL and IEC, customer contract requirements, verification and related specifications.</li><li>Lead design review with cross functional teams to confirm the manufacturing and quality control feasibility.</li><li>Leads DV/PV test, responsible for resolving product design and test problems.</li><li>Responsible for FAI review, work with project team to release product in time.</li><li>Interacts with customers, vendors, marketing and sales personnel, and other engineering areas during the pre-production stages of new products.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree majored in Mechanical, or above.</li><li>More than 5 years mechanical design experience, power signal connector related is preferred, independently new product development experience is preferred.</li><li>Knowledge of connector fundamentals, capable of connector component design, preferred that knowledge of power and signal connector application and international standards ex. UL and IEC.</li><li>Familiar with GD&amp;T, tolerance analysis, mechanics of plastic/metal materials, and basic knowledge in injection molding, stamping. Skilled in at least one 3D Software: Creo, Pro/E, Catia, UG or SolidWorks.&nbsp;</li><li>Skilled of office software such as Word, Excel, PPT.</li><li>Proficient in writing and reading English. Good oral English is plus.</li><li>Good communication skills, high teamwork spirit and teamwork experience, ability to work with multicultural engineering teams and cross functional environments.</li><li>Effective problem-solving skills, to be innovative, willingness/ability to deal with multiple products and assigned tasks.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Develop product line vision, strategy, product and technology roadmaps and business plans and make executions for new product development and launch.</li><li>Builds alignment across multiple functions inside the organization</li><li>P&amp;L Responsibility: deliver on revenue and gross (or standard) margin targets by driving execution of the business plan</li><li>Define market lead time requirements, provide guidance on capacity planning by forecasting demand and working closely with the GPM and supply chain organization to set safety stock requirements, etc.</li><li>Familiar with the industry of Energy storage System and New energy, and market and sales experience of connector product.&nbsp;</li><li>Demonstrate thought leadership to internal and external stakeholders</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>4-year technical or business degree required. Advanced degree (MBA) or relevant P&amp;L management experience preferred</li><li>5+ years of product management or sales, engineering experience.</li><li>Relevant product or industry experience desired.</li><li>Positive and optimistic, with strong execution ability.&nbsp;</li><li>Strong communication skill needed with cross-country team</li><li>Frequent business trip expected within China.&nbsp;</li><li>Fluent English required.&nbsp;</li><li>Highly interpersonal and communication skills</li><li>Drives results primarily through collaboration and influence and passion with cross functional team</li><li>Interacts and/or negotiates effectively</li></ul>

Responsibilities:&nbsp; <ul><li>Responsible for all assembly work, managing 120 machines with a workforce of approximately 300 people.&nbsp;</li><li>Direct reports include 3 production supervisors and 2 production supervisors (one upstairs and one downstairs), along with 5-6 team leaders and 10-20 frontline operators per shift (total scale of about 100-200 people).&nbsp;</li><li>Involved in turntable machines, pin insertion machines, and new energy machines.&nbsp;</li><li>In the Kunshan Phase II project, responsible for assembly and integration, including setup, project implementation, and staff training.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Age under 43, no gender preference, at least a bachelors degree, with a background in the automotive manufacturing industry.</li><li>Basic knowledge of LEAN concepts and tools, with solid theoretical knowledge.</li><li>Ability to communicate in simple written English.</li><li>Management experience in factories with 200-500 employees, with preference for production managers from the automotive industry; experience in the electronics industry will not be considered.</li><li>Cross-departmental leadership skills, understanding of overall operations concepts, SQDC, and results-oriented with the ability to handle pressure.</li><li>Personnel management skills, able to mobilize organizational structure, with experience in terminating employees.</li><li>Effective personnel coaching, understanding of delivery processes and handling customer complaints.</li><li>Ability to learn and a broad perspective, capable of handling complex cases with practical experience.</li><li>Minimal travel required, must be flexible to be assigned to 5 factories (including Nantong factory).</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Responsible for the day-to-day operations and longer term planning for manufacturing functions, including manufacturing, production control, engineering, inventory control, purchasing and shipping/receiving activities. Defines goals, improves technologies, and resolves problems.&nbsp;</li><li>Translates customer requirements into state-of-the-art manufacturing strategies and processes, resulting in cost effective processing and profitable manufacturing of company products. Develops operations-related plans, budgets, and policies and procedures. A key member of TE Energy team, directing Operations and responsible for the planning, controlling, manufacturing, production of goods, and service delivery. </li><li>Operations is also responsible for quality service delivery and supply chain management needed to ensure materials arrive to produce goods and ensure that orders are processed and shipped appropriately. </li><li>In addition to on time deliveries to global customers, the U.S. location is responsible for supplying critical function components to global customers for rapid end item configurations and delivery to customers.&nbsp;</li><li>Direct oversight to ensure that operations is running efficiently and effectively, and that demand is met.&nbsp;</li><li>Partner with the BU General Manager and other senior leaders in a matrixed organization in the development and formulation of long and short-range strategic planning, budgets (including capital investment), policies, programs, and objectives.&nbsp;</li><li>Drive innovation management through the business keeping abreast of market trends and creatively applying new technologies across the entire operations value chain.&nbsp;</li><li>Monitor and oversee Quality and Continuous Improvement (TEOA) initiatives to enable the BU to meet or exceed plan targets. This includes manufacturing, procurement, and business processes.&nbsp;</li><li>Define required strategies and define infrastructures and organizational structures to meet company, customer and market expectations proactively. </li><li>Develop, coordinate and drive the operations plans and establishes procedures for maintaining high standards of operations to ensure that products and processes conform to established customer and company standards.&nbsp;</li><li>Cascade strategic objectives for Operations functional leadership. Set and clarify requirements and expectations for direct and matrixed reports based on the strategic direction and needs of the business.&nbsp;</li><li>Work closely with Human Resources to lead the team with integrity and to establish and maintain a trusting, inclusive, and productive environment that promotes employee wellbeing, engagement &amp; quality of life.&nbsp;</li><li>Develop and deliver clear and concise communications both up, down, and sideways across the organization.&nbsp;</li><li>Organize Plant and supplier’s capacity and technical capabilities to meet planned production schedules.&nbsp;</li><li>Monitor and oversee operational activities with the objective of maximizing the use of organizational resources to meet and/or exceed established KPI’s (TEOA (Lean), Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Cost.).&nbsp;</li><li>Drive organization structures and programs (footprint changes, migration/localization, new product launch, process and equipment requirements) to meet BU/regional goals.&nbsp;</li><li>Monitor and oversee the full value chain from procurement and production to shipment and beyond.&nbsp;</li><li>Work actively with supply chain leaders to ensure that supply is consistently synchronized to demand to maximize revenue and delivery performance.&nbsp;</li><li>Take a holistic view of global capacity and through the S&amp;OP process plan the necessary global capacity expansions or shifts to align regional supply to regional demand.&nbsp;</li><li>Work closely with Plant Controllers and Plant Managers to understand spending activities &amp; trends, how they match up to targets, and course correct. </li><li>Draw on relationships with department heads, external partners, and vendors to make decisions regarding operational activity and strategic goals&nbsp;</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>In this section, list the core requirements for this job.&nbsp;</li><li>Next to each, list the level of proficiency desired for this job. Proficiency level descriptions are in the appendix. Core Competencies (no greater than 10 Lominger Competencies – From Lominger Questionnaire) Proficiency Level&nbsp;</li><li>Action oriented&nbsp;</li><li>Being resilient&nbsp;</li><li>Ensures Accountability</li><li>Communicates effectively&nbsp;</li><li>Drives Engagement</li><li>Directs work</li><li>Drives results</li><li>Develops Talent</li><li>Plans and aligns 3/4</li><li>Situational adaptabilit</li><li>Values differences</li><li>Balance stakeholders&nbsp;</li><li>Building effective teams</li><li>Decision Quality Experience Ten or more years in a senior leadership role in a field related to our industry&nbsp;</li><li>Masterful organizational, communication, and leadership skills, backed by previous professional success&nbsp;</li><li>Superior knowledge of multiple operational functions and principles, including finance, customer service, production, and employee management&nbsp;</li><li>Proven ability to plan and manage operational processes for maximum efficiency and productivity&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to streamline or implement structures and roles that boost speed and efficiency while supporting rapidly shifting business demands</li><li>Strong working knowledge of industry regulations and legal guidelines&nbsp;</li><li>Excellent executive presence, ability to present to senior leadership&nbsp;</li><li>Experience in managing cross-functional teams and working in a matrix organization.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience with Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies.</li><li>Familiarity with ERP systems and their role in manufacturing.&nbsp;</li><li>English speaking and other languages advantageous.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience in developing budgets and business plans&nbsp;</li><li>Superior negotiation skills for both internal and external purposes&nbsp;</li><li>Strong working knowledge of data analysis and performance metrics, using business management software (ex: SAP, ERP, CRM) Education</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.</li></ul>

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