GBS Continuous Improvement Process Lead

QA Team Leader

ASC - Business Development Specialist

Sales and Marketing Director

Staff R&D/Product Development Engineer

Quality Manager

Production Supervisor - Assembly

Sr. Generative AI Engineer

Senior Research and Development / Product Development Engineer

Product Management Manager

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>Analysis of product and production systems to meet customer expectations.</li><li>Management of an engineering team of 8 people.</li><li>Training and motivating employees along the lines of quality efforts.</li><li>Perform quality control from materials to finished products.</li><li>Conducting quality audits and documenting their results.</li><li>Setting quality goals and coordinating measures to achieve them.</li><li>Preparation of reports and their analysis of internal processes.</li><li>Handling of complaints and blocking/issuance of products</li></ul> Requirements : <ul><li>Relevant college or university degree in a technical field.</li><li>Relevant experience in the automotive industry (5+ years): experience in customer and/or supplier quality matters.</li><li>Knowledge of quality assurance systems Knowledge of Core Tools (FMEA, Control Plan, MSA, PPAP, 8D, SPC).</li><li>Knowledge of IATF 16949.</li><li>VDA 6.3 process auditor qualification.</li><li>Strong computer skills, MS-Office tools (Power Point, Excel, Word and Outlook).</li><li>Fluent English and Hungarian language skills, spoken and written.</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>With a keen eye for customer success and loyalty, the individual in this position will lead our sales team in LAM.</li><li>The Senior Manager Sales in the Energy business unit plays a critical strategic role in driving revenue growth through LAM account management excellence and best in class thought leadership in select end markets (applications).&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>This team partners extensively with customers across the LAM region as well as members of our Strategy and Business Development, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering and Regional sales leaders, to develop and execute the BU Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and tactics to drive growth, within a direct reporting and matrix managed structure.</li><li>We are flexible on the location within South America with a preference for candidates based in Brazil.</li><li>The Senior Manager Sales will bring a strategic growth-oriented and entrepreneurial mind-set, excellent commercial acumen, and leadership experience, “Go to Market” track record, deep customer relationships and a hands-on leadership style.</li><li>The person must have the ability to inspire, engage and motivate a large regional sales team to execute on the desired strategy in a broad portfolio of technical products whilst operating in a fast-paced environment.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Success in the role requires extensive experience in the Utility Sales Market in each country of Latin America and major geographies of Central America and Caribbean region. In addition, extensive experience managing, coaching and nurturing remote teams to drive high efficiency on sales growth</li><li>In addition, successful candidate will have the following qualifications, experience and skills:&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Degree in Electrical Engineer, complemented by a degree in Administration or MBA focused program.</li><li>Minimum of 10 Years with direct reports with responsibilities in the areas of Commercial, Product Management and/or Sales.&nbsp;</li><li>Foreign Language: Spanish and English (fluent in speaking, reading and writing), Portuguese (proficient in speaking, reading and writing).</li><li>Proven ability to effectively manage a Sales Organization, making sure that action plans are created and properly executed. Experience on developing teams, providing feedback and motivate the sales teams to achieve their performance goals and the expected growth for the LAM Utility territory.</li><li>Strong Technical background on the field of Electrical Products, able to provide technical and commercial presentations as well as to present to the upper management constant clear &amp; concise Market Updates of his territory of responsibility.</li><li>Prior specific experience selling Electrical Products required.</li><li>Broad experience on the market dynamics for the Utility Electrical segment, in each of the countries of Latin &amp; Central America and Caribbean.</li><li>High levels of conceptual thinking, problem structuring and analysis, cross functional team leadership, and the ability to work across organizational boundaries</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Communicate with customer to quickly generate new connection solution design.</li><li>Prepare product design document, such as: PRD, DV/PV plan, Product review, Initial BOM, DFMEA and Significant Characteristic.&nbsp;</li><li>Perform engineering calculations to analyze and describe product to ensure robust design with economic cost.</li><li>Regenerate existing products with new solutions to improve competitive advantage.&nbsp;</li><li>Understanding product testing procedures and equipment, reviewing evaluation or test report and confirming accuracy of report contents to ensure product meets quality specification.</li><li>Support new product technical data output, such as: 3D, 2D drawing and Design objective.&nbsp;</li><li>New technical solutions study and research, such as LV high current, Al application, FFC application</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Education: B.S. of Engineering or Master Mechanical Engineering preferred.</li><li>Qualification &amp; Certification: Patents as first author</li><li>Experience: 5+ experience on connector design.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Production area Key performance setting base on Quality strategy. To let each engineer clear understand own KPI and dedicate to quality improvement toward to corporate strategy.</li><li>Customer Complaint handling: Review 8D report, monitor customer complaint quantity, response time, 8D score, and improvement effectiveness.</li><li>COPQ Reduction: Direct and support to analysis the production data, find the quality improvement opportunity and lead team to determine the actions, follow up and verify the improvement result, take reaction base on the actual result.</li><li>People Management: Allocate work across direct reports; monitor and review their performance; mentor, coach and motivate them; and help resolve people/functional issues to achieve the targeted team performance and retain talent.</li><li>Promote continuance improvement culture through professional problem- solving tools to reduce quality cost and pursue 0PPM. In this process utilizing formal quality improvement methodologies and become a standard procedure.</li><li>Develop and implement a quality data analysis plan, monitor and evaluate data analysis results, and ensure that quality issues are effectively resolved.</li><li>Coordinate communication and cooperation with other departments, use data analysis results to guide the improvement and optimization of other business activities of the company.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Education: Bachelor’s degree or above in Mechanical, Electronics or relevant&nbsp;</li><li>Qualification &amp; Certification: GB certification: APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, MSA certification</li><li>Experience: More than 8 years of working experience, and 3years at least in manager roles, automotive experience must be.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Planning and Budgeting: <ul><li>Propose and recommend manufacturing workshop strategy; implement workshop budget and plan; monitor the achievement of the budget; in order to achieve workshop annual manufacturing goals.&nbsp;</li></ul> People Management &amp; Development: <ul><li>Allocate and balance work across subordinates; review and provide timely performance feedback to subordinates; mentor, develop and motivate subordinates&nbsp;</li><li>provide technical training and support to sub-workshop employees.</li><li>monitor and implement the company discipline policy; resolve people/functional issues in the workshop in order to improve effectiveness and achieve targeted department performance.&nbsp;</li></ul> Production Process Management: <ul><li>Implement manufacturing department quality target and monitor the workshop quality status.</li><li>gather the manufacturing potential quality risk and provide to quality department; involve quality issues analysis and improvement, implement the related action plan; supervise and monitor production process against production plan; monitor emergency solving process in order to ensure smooth production and meet productivity and quality targets.&nbsp;</li></ul> EHS Management: <ul><li>Implement and monitor EHS policies in workshop in order to ensure compliance with company regulation; gather and report the potential risk to EHS function in order to ensure manufacturing safety also improve future company EHS.</li></ul> Cost Management: <ul><li>Review and approve workshops inventory count plan in order to find out the variance against the standards; review workshops production order(PO) and then pass to Finance for further analysis in order to balance all resources for production</li></ul> Continue Improvement: <ul><li>Work with cross function team to develop proper working process to improve manufacturing working condition and ensure proper support.</li><li>fully support Lean implementation and response for on line execution in order to ensure continue improvement of manufacturing management</li></ul> Requirements: Education: <ul><li>Bachelor degree in science or engineering discipline</li></ul> Experience: <ul><li>5years of experience in manufacturing, including 3 years managerial experience&nbsp;Good working knowledge of Molding and Auto Assy process.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Good English skills (Writing, Speaking and Reading)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Good knowledge of Quality management systems both internal and external</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Apply software and AI engineering patterns and principles to design, develop, test, integrate, maintain and troubleshoot complex and varied Generative AI software solutions and incorporate security practices in newly developed and maintained applications.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define AI project requirements and objectives, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Conduct research to stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in generative AI, machine learning, and deep learning techniques and identify opportunities to integrate them into our products and services, optimizing existing generative AI models and RAG for improved performance, scalability, and efficiency, developing and maintaining pipelines and RAG solutions including data preprocessing, prompt engineering, benchmarking and fine-tuning.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Develop clear and concise documentation, including technical specifications, user guides and presentations, to communicate complex AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.&nbsp;</li><li>Participate in the engineering community by maintaining and sharing relevant technical approaches and modern skills in AI.&nbsp;</li><li>Contribute to the establishment of best practices and standards for generative AI development within the organization.&nbsp;</li><li>Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.&nbsp;</li><li>Other duties as assigned&nbsp;</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience&nbsp;</li><li>Minimum of five years of related work experience&nbsp;</li><li>You are proficient in Python and have experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks&nbsp;</li><li>Have deep understanding of industry leading Foundation Model capabilities and its application.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>You are familiar with cloud-based Generative AI platforms and services&nbsp;</li><li>Full stack software engineering experience to build products using Foundation Models&nbsp;</li><li>Confirmed experience architecting applications, databases, services or integrations&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>

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