Senior Manager of Operational Excellence 

This position is eligible to hire in Chicago, Phoenix, and New York. 

Summary/Objective:

As the Senior Manager, Operational Excellence, you will drive  OpEx capability development programs for the company and partner with functional leaders to define and execute improvement initiatives across the entire HelloFresh US operations. This individual will coordinate with local Distribution Center and Central teams to drive improved performance in Quality, Service, and Efficiency. In addition to general knowledge of Operational Excellence techniques, the Senior Manager, Operational Excellence should also have subject matter expertise in one or more specific areas of operations.

The Senior Manager, Operational Excellence identifies key opportunities and gaps in the core business processes; aligns resources to these priorities; ensures appropriate charters and quality improvement methodologies, tools and techniques are being leveraged to drive improvements; and continues to be an advocate for future operational improvements by partnering with and challenging the business and leadership in system thinking and new ideas.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for development and implementation of HF Operations Strategic projects including Continuous Improvement, Change Management, cost optimization, and Operational Excellence Training.
• Assist in leading large scale and complex improvement projects within operations or across facilities and effectively coordinate these programs with the project teams.
• Assure that practices promoting continuous improvement are adopted by the organization to drive improvements in morale, quality, delivery and cost.
• Project leadership includes: identifying opportunities; defining and financially justifying projects; negotiating resources; launching project teams; using good project management to manage team activities; training and coaching of Lean resources assigned to the team; leading teams to execute projects with problem solving methodology; tracking project status and results; anticipating and removing project barriers; and developing team members.
• Ensure projects are integrated and aligned with other business activities, improvement projects and business strategy and coordinated with the appropriate project/process owners to accomplish the project goals (whenever possible).
• Communicate best practices and key learning's across the organization.
• Support the company’s commitment to employee engagement, critical thinking and innovation
• Utilizes continuous improvement tools and methodology to conduct root cause analysis
• Leads risk identification and risk mitigating planning
• You lead change management planning and execution for projects. Ensures effective, accurate, and timely communication of project information to meet the needs of identified partners.
• Utilizes negotiation, facilitation, meeting management, and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional team performance.
• Facilitates project post-mortems with all key partners and identify key areas for process improvements
• Manage a small team of direct reports. Influence a large team of indirect reports including associates, managers, and leaders across the US.
• Ability to travel up to 75% of the time.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Leadership   
• Time Management     
• Respectful Coaching Techniques   
• Thoroughness
• Performance Management of team members
• Detail Oriented and Results Driven
• Conflict Resolution
• Cross functional collaboration
• Selection and Interviewing skills          

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and  related management work experience.
• At least 5 years of work experience in a production environment
• Six Sigma / Lean Certification

Preferred Education and Experience

• Master’s degree.
• At least 7 years of work experience in a production environment, specifically targeted towards Continuous Improvement related work