• Leading complex projects using methodology to deliver significant bottom-line improvements.
• Providing consultation and solutions by leading cross-functional teams and deploying rigorous statistical tools to improve process capability, reduce variability and eliminate defects.
• Meeting customer and business needs.
• Facilitates, trains and coaches team members in the use of Lean Six Sigma tools.
• Collaborating with leaders and teams to uncover and assess Lean Six Sigma opportunities for the company and its vendors.
• Identifying potential process improvement projects and collaborates with business leaders on project selection.
• Serving as a change agent in institutionalizing Lean Six Sigma’s continuous quality improvements.
• Constantly seeking, sharing, and implementing best practices.
• Communicating team’s progress to Master Black Belt, Champions, Business Leaders and team members.
• Supports Lean Six Sigma training activities.
• Provides orientation and on-boarding to new Green Belts, Black Belts and other personnel involved in Lean Six Sigma.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience: (Minimum Needed): 3 – 5 years experience applying Lean Six Sigma methodology in a retail environment.
• Specialized Knowledge Needed For Performance of Job: Knowledge of retailing in foods, hardlines or softlines.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions based upon a mixture of statistical analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment.
  Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and succinctly to a variety of audiences from Senior Leadership to Team Members. Can get message across that have the desired effect.
• Demonstrated ability to listen attentively and actively.
• Demonstrated ability to pay attention to both small nuances and complex situations in a way that he/she figures out the process necessary to get things done.
• Demonstrated ability to spend his/her time, and the time of others, on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder the accomplishing of a goal; eliminates road blocks and creates focus.
• Demonstrated aptitude to work with mathematical constructs. Ability to apply statistical concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to teach individuals and groups on complex matters. Is sought out to teach others and effectively teaches diverse team members with different learning styles.
• Demonstrated ability to provide information people need to know to do their jobs; provides accurate and timely information cross functionally.
• Demonstrated knowledge of customer expectations and requirements. Gets first hand customer information and uses it for continuous and sustainable improvements. Acts with the customer in mind.
• Demonstrated skills to manage projects, set priorities and goals, and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated skill to pick up on technical issues quickly; can learn new skills and knowledge; is good at learning new retail industry subjects, product knowledge and technical knowledge; does well with technology.
• Demonstrated knowledge of retail environments preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize MS Office Suite.

• B.S. in Engineering,
• 5 to 10 years of manufacturing operations experience
• Knowledge Lean Manufacturing, and Lean Six Sigma Implementation
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams in pursuit of Lean Six Sigma Implementation
• Project Engineering Experience

• You will lead the organization towards Lean Six Sigma Implementation
• Identify and execute improvement projects through application of Six Sigma and lean manufacturing principles, techniques, and tools to improve product and process quality, reduce costs and improve customer service.
• Project Management: Design and develop projects with plans of action and timelines in an application such as Microsoft Project.  Show applications of Six Sigma/Lean tools and results, and project cost savings.
• Train team members in Six Sigma/Lean principles, problem solving tools, and procedures.
• Apply Six Sigma/Lean tools and Processes to eliminate identified root causes of non-conformances, waste, and product and process variation.
  Cross Functional Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional process improvement and corrective action teams in support of Lean Six Sigma Implementation activities.
• Identify requirements to support continuous improvement projects.
• Review Capital Plan, Unit Cost Improvement and Technical Development activity to ensure most efficient utilization of technical resources.

Person also serves as a deep improvement expert and faculty for company improvement skill development program with a responsibility for revising curriculum content and delivering training across company’s eight regions.

This individual provides technical support in the Department of Care and Service Quality, primarily for performance improvement initiatives and systems. The scope of work projects will be broad and comprehensive and include development of performance improvement capacity educational tools that will support promotion of the Department of Care and Service Quality and National Quality Committee priorities to improve clinical performance.

• Plans and manages the staff development of a highly technical staff.
• Establishes performance standards and service levels for client customer support.
• Continuously evaluates processes for improvement and increased effectiveness.
• Support the sales effort at clients with the Account Managers and Solution Architects
• Participate in the development and execution of improvement opportunities
• Support senior leadership’s strategic and transformational initiatives
• Recommend commitments to the number of resources, timing, and scope of projects
• Diagnose business client problems, develop innovative solutions to theme, and implement recommendations

• Identify and develop additional opportunities within key client accounts, drawing on the rest of the organization including the sales organization and product development specialists
• Identify and support ad-hoc opportunity conversion for clients outside of account plans.
• Maintain, deepen and nurture exiting client relationships, and seek to apply client value propositions and services to existing personal network of clients.

• Identify consulting client leads and support their conversion through to proposal and sale
• Take the lead in delivering projects, both as part of the team and working independently
• Apply industry understanding of Business Process Improvement Commercial expertise, analytical insights and consulting skills to deliver high value projects to clients
• Deliver high quality work and service to ensure client expectations are met or exceeded.

• Support and contribute to the ongoing development of the company.
• Actively seek to represent and build awareness of the the company consulting team internally in order to demonstrate value to the broader corporation
• Take an active role in client account planning and development of client account strategies for increasing account penetration
• Contribute to the development of innovative and differentiated proprietary consulting approaches, methodologies and tools
• Contribute to the development and packaging of industry insights including thought leadership POVs (Point of Views) that can be taken to market
• Contribute to the external representation of the company consulting services and capabilities to build presence and credibility on the market place.

• Act as a line manager for assigned consulting resources and take responsibility for their performance management and professional development
• Coach and develop junior consulting team members in their understanding of client issues and challenges within the client Business Development and Commercial operations areas
• Share personal experience and knowledge with the clients with which we collaborate in order to develop the solutions development capability of the broader organization
• Direct resources and participants in client operational improvement projects to assist team members in the improvement of their economic and business performance.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with client business leaders and engage members to drive continuous improvement processes and systems
• Utilize “best of class” leading practices, tools and data to communicate performance improvement opportunities with client executives, management and other leaders
• Develop detailed plans for increasing the visibility and utilization of company Performance Improvement offerings
• Develop and produce proposals, deliverables; i.e. analyses, presentations, reports and case studies
• Develop systems, methodologies and procedures for data and information collection and data mining
• Create and deliver presentations, reports, analysis, and advises clients on business strategic recommendations
• Consult with client internal and external resources/customers to define project scope, design and implementation strategy
• Maintain industry knowledge on quality, performance excellence and innovation