GBS Continuous Improvement Process Lead

Manufacturing Engineer

Finance Accounting Specialist

Staff R&D/Product Development Engineer

Production Supervisor - Assembly

IT Business Analyst

Senior Research and Development / Product Development Engineer

Manager II Operations

Director of Product Management

Solution Consultant

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:&nbsp; <ul><li>Supervise and develop manufacturing processes.</li><li>Supervise and supervise production process control and supervision.</li><li>Leading and supporting process improvement projects.</li><li>Supporting and managing process improvement projects, including the development and implementation of process improvement projects.</li><li>Working closely with the production team to achieve targets</li><li>Preparation and updating of production documentation - Operating instructions, setup instructions, PFMEA.</li><li>Training of technical colleagues</li><li>Liaising with foreign project teams.</li><li>Participate in root cause analysis of customer complaints and implementation of actions.</li></ul> Requirement:&nbsp; <ul><li>Technical diploma.&nbsp;</li><li>Minimum 1 year of experience in manufacturing.</li><li>Experience in FMEA management.</li><li>Minimum of FMEA experience FMEA experience in the field of product development.</li><li>Knowledge of problem solving methodologies (5why, Ishikawa, 8D, A3).</li><li>Willingness and motivation to learn and develop.</li><li>Project management skills would be an advantage.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Month-End Closing Process: <ul><li>Analyze P&amp;L and Balance Sheet by natural/line of statement.</li><li>Review general expenses accruals and prepaid.</li><li>Prepare intercompany recharge costs and the relevant invoices.</li><li>Analyze and prepare accruals for trade customers bonuses and penalties.</li><li>Calculate and update income and deferred taxes in the One Source system.</li><li>Control plan oversight on Financial Solution Center tasks.</li><li>Review regular reports and B/S account reconciliations via the accounting system.</li></ul> Direct Tax: <ul><li>Prepare P&amp;L by source, calculate transfer price adjustments, and monitor profitability.</li><li>Prepare the annual Transfer Price book report conduct FAS 109 studies, and RTP calculations.</li><li>Prepare income and deferred taxes for Statutory and Tax Return.</li><li>Provide support during tax audits.</li></ul> Statutory Reporting: <ul><li>Support in Statutory package preparation (P&amp;L, B/S, Note).</li></ul> Other Activities: <ul><li>Prepare presentation for Statutory auditors meetings.</li><li>Prepare and collect SOX requirements.</li><li>Support in balance sheet reviews and self-assessments preparation.</li><li>Support internal audits.</li><li>Manage non-SAP re-approval access.</li><li>Manage SAP SOD conflict access.</li><li>Support VAT and Intrastat controls and check the SDI platform.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor Degree in Accounting or Finance</li><li>Fluent English</li><li>5-7 years of experience in accounting or tax-related roles, in multinational/industrial companies or consultancy firms.&nbsp;</li><li>Solid knowledge of accounting, direct and indirect tax rules and regulations. Knowledge of US GAAP is a plus.</li><li>Excellent SAP knowledge (FI and CO modules)</li><li>Proven, solid Office (in particular Excel) skills and exposure to automated accounting systems</li></ul> Location: <ul><li>Torino, Italy</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: 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>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>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:&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>

Overview: <ul><li>will be responsible for building, leading, and managing a complex global high speed interconnect product portfolio, including developing the strategy and business plan, driving new product development, gaining cross functional alignment and driving the execution of the business plan.&nbsp;</li><li>This individual will also be responsible for managing a team of global product managers located around the globe.&nbsp;</li><li>will be a growth driven, commercially savvy executive who will own the key product strategies and execution for a growing global business.&nbsp;</li><li>The Director, Product Management is responsible for the long-term vision of the product families and will have responsibility for overall product strategy and business leadership, and meeting sales, profit, and other financial goals.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>will manage all aspects of a global product line portfolio, from driving new product development to defining the go-to-market strategies and product roadmap in liaison with Sales and Marketing. </li><li>He/She must collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure that the strategy, development and manufacturing capability &amp; capacity are in place to achieve defined business targets at the right cost, schedule and quality. In addition, he/she will also be responsible for defining and leading growth through licensing and partnership opportunities.&nbsp;</li><li>will need to act with an entrepreneurial spirit and manage the portfolio with a GM mindset. This role requires strong strategic thinking and experience working across regions. Experience dealing with Cloud Service Providers and GPU companies is a major plus. The Director, Product Management will bring a culture of customer obsession and work cross functional to improve TE response times</li></ul> Responsibilities: <ul><li>Market Sensing &amp; Strategy Development</li><li>Articulate market and industry trends, demand drivers, customer needs, and competitive landscape</li><li>Conduct market segmentation exercises to develop market segment-specific strategies&nbsp;</li><li>Conduct and/or lead team in competitive analysis and benchmarking&nbsp;</li><li>Define segment-specific value propositions that beat the competition&nbsp;</li><li>Develop long term product roadmaps that align with business strategy&nbsp;</li><li>Design go-to-market strategy, inclusive of channel strategy and licensing partnerships&nbsp;</li><li>Work with R&amp;D and operations in the development of new products to meet current and future customer requirements&nbsp;</li><li>Manage product lifecycle Develop Business Plan&nbsp;</li><li>Define resource requirements necessary to execute the product roadmap&nbsp;</li><li>Work cross functionally to define sales, technology and operations strategies and goals, in line with financial goals&nbsp;</li><li>Build consensus on specific tasks Establish pricing policy&nbsp;</li><li>Develop the annual operating plan (sales and gross or standard margin)&nbsp;</li><li>Engage with customers to better understand their needs and ensure our product plans are aligned to their strategic priorities Execution – New Product Development &amp; Launch&nbsp;</li><li>Be the opportunity champion for new growth projects and/or assist team in opportunity assessment&nbsp;</li><li>Plan product launches, including the development of marketing and sales plans&nbsp;</li><li>Ensure team provides intelligent demand forecast inputs to S&amp;OP&nbsp;</li><li>Negotiate directly with customers on large program opportunities&nbsp;</li><li>Exercise thought leadership for the interconnect and cable ecosystem market&nbsp;</li><li>Provide inputs to Marcom for the development of collateral, including e-commerce Execution – Post Launch Product Management&nbsp;</li><li>Manage the P&amp;L (sales and gross or standard margin) for the assigned portfolio&nbsp;</li><li>Deliver sustained, profitable growth&nbsp;</li><li>Enable sales to promote product line via training and the development of collateral materials that help articulate the value proposition&nbsp;</li><li>Manage special price requests&nbsp;</li><li>Track progress to the business plan and facilitate resolution to gaps&nbsp;</li><li>Be the champion for resolution of product issues (e.g., quality, delivery, etc.) Talent Management&nbsp;</li><li>Manage, energize, and motivate a multi-cultural team of product managers located around the globe •</li><li>Build, coach and develop individuals and teams Key</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>The Director, Product Management will have a minimum of 5 years of product management experience with at least 10 years in B2B commercial roles.&nbsp;</li><li>He/She must have proven success leading strategic growth initiatives and product management engagements in engineering and manufacturing driven industries.&nbsp;</li><li>The successful candidate must possess proven strategic, analytical and implementation skills.&nbsp;</li><li>Understanding of Cloud/Datacenter hardware architectures&nbsp;</li><li>Experience with high speed interconnects a major plus – twinax cabling, near chip connectivity, high speed IO or similar products 4-year technical or business degree required&nbsp;</li><li>Advanced degree (MBA) and relevant P&amp;L management experience preferred&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to support travel of approximately 10-25% (both regional and global)&nbsp;</li><li>Strong business acumen with an ability to understand technically complex concepts&nbsp;</li><li>Experience negotiating high stakes and large dollar value contracts&nbsp;</li><li>Creative and innovative thinker able to provide input on the development of the product strategies and the relevant business plans with the ability to execute&nbsp;</li><li>Proven ability to multi-task and drive results in a dynamic, high paced environment</li><li>Strong interpersonal, planning, organization, and teamwork skills&nbsp;</li><li>Experienced leader with an ability to influence cross functional teams and to build strong relationships both internally and externally&nbsp;</li><li>Advanced presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to foster understanding and acknowledgement of critical information both up and down the organization</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Delivers an extraordinary customer experience by technically advising customers on our client products, services, and capabilities to best meet the needs of the customer and the designs they are working on. Sells the value propositions of our client products and services.</li><li>Outbound calling (cold and warm) to establish new, high-quality opportunities with prospective customers and contacts.</li><li>Communicate with end customers via channels such as telephone &amp; email by following up on Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL’s) and propose options and solutions.</li><li>Liaison with internal support areas including production, sales, engineering, customer care and others as necessary to resolve customer inquiries and requests.</li><li>Conversations with the customers are geared towards understanding the customer’s needs through relevant probing questions and by extending conversations around project/opportunities.</li><li>A warm handoff of opportunities along with all required details to account managers for further nurturing.</li><li>Promote portfolio of products to drive revenue.&nbsp;</li></ul> Requirements: Education: <ul><li>Bachelors technical or business degree preferred or equivalent experience</li></ul> Skills &amp; Experience: <ul><li>Demonstrates problem solving skills, influencing abilities, and ability to provide effective feedback</li><li>Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills</li><li>Proven ability to initiate, organize, and complete multiple tasks in a timely manner</li><li>Demonstrates ability to share creative and new ideas</li><li>Consultative selling experience desired</li><li>Relevant product or industry experience a plus</li><li>Team player, critical thinker, self-motivator, and ability to maintain a proactive positive attitude.</li><li>A passion for serving customers.</li><li>Mandarin speaking, writing and typing is required.</li><li>One to two years working experience is preferred, fresh graduates are welcome for the application as well.&nbsp;</li></ul>

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