Information about #31555 Operational Excellence Manager Sr Work Location: This role will work onsite from our Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio location. Some day travel between northeast Ohio locations is expected. Formulated to Care For more than 75 years, GOJO, Makers of PURELL has been powered by people who are energized by helping the world experience greater health and well-being. The positive impact of our PURELL hand and surface hygiene solutions is driven by our global community of highly collaborative and talented team members who love to learn, innovate, care for each other, and deliver our Purpose of Saving Lives and Making Life Better. Role Objective This role is responsible for driving a step change in operational effectiveness and efficiency in supply chain by building operational excellence capability and by partnering with functional leaders to define and execute improvement and cost reduction initiatives across the GOJO Supply Chain network. This role will own and support the portfolio of continuous improvement initiatives, activities, and high-value projects for the manufacturing and distribution sites. It includes analyzing, improving and overseeing the organization's supply chain systems and processes, and designing and implementing programs to improve efficiency and costs. This role has both operational and strategic focus driving local efficiency while also working across the network to share and implement best practices. The role will support building a culture of continuous improvement across the sites, lead and participate in process improvement events, facilitate Kaizens, model lean leadership behaviors, and embed OpEx practices into everyday ways of working. It requires engagement with all levels of leadership in the prioritization and coordination of continuous improvement and operational excellence activities across the enterprise. This is a highly visible role with significant exposure to senior leadership on a regular basis and requires an ability to build relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization. The role requires demonstrated leadership and passion around continuous improvement, as well as strong communication, facilitation, analytical and project management capabilities. Essential Functions and Responsibilities Identifies breakthrough process improvements and champions efforts to build capability throughout the organization. Provides frontline support that ensures process transformation will be successful with positive financial results. Identifies key opportunities and gaps in the core business processes; aligns resources to these priorities; ensures appropriate charters and improvement methodologies, tools and techniques are being leveraged to drive improvements Leads and manages Six Sigma and Lean initiatives/projects across boundaries and influences others to achieve enterprise goals. Moves swiftly from concept to action with a bias for execution. Develop & utilize enterprise level business metrics and track ongoing performance of projects to ensure they are delivering value Provides analysis, input, and support for the development of the Opex strategy and annual budget process. Manages a team that is responsible for facilitating all aspects of continuous improvement throughout the manufacturing plants and DCs: technical training, increasing throughput, decreasing downtime/stops, improving work process inefficiencies, managing and improving systems, eliminating other wastes, driving cost reduction, etc. Owns the development, maintenance, training and roll-out of critical Daily Management Systems Builds Operator capability through the development and training of Standard Operating Procedures, Work Instructions and One-Point Lessons. Lead/participate in department, line, team or other functional unit meetings to clarify/define project or process modification opportunities. Develop