Regional Continuous Improvement Manager

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and highly collaborative Regional Continuous Improvement Manager, U.S. Operations to enable and accelerate continuous improvement across our U.S. locations, helping the organization address key challenges, implement strategic changes, and deliver sustainable improvements in business performance. 

The role will serve as a Lean and Continuous Improvement enabler and facilitator, partnering with leaders and teams across the organization to identify opportunities, address root causes, facilitate cross-functional improvement, and translate opportunities into practical, sustainable solutions. 

A key focus will be developing and sustaining a consistent Lean and Continuous Improvement framework across the U.S. organization, establishing common methodologies, tools, and approaches while facilitating multi-site alignment, standardization, and sharing of successful practices across locations and functions. 

In addition to enabling continuous improvement across the organization, the role will have clear ownership and accountability for selected strategic improvement projects, bringing together cross-functional teams, addressing barriers, and driving initiatives through implementation and measurable, sustainable results. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Continuous Improvement Enablement: Enable leaders and teams to effectively apply Lean and Continuous Improvement principles to key operational and business priorities, helping identify opportunities, challenge existing ways of working, eliminate waste, address root causes, and improve overall performance. 

• Lean and Continuous Improvement Framework: Develop, enable, and continuously strengthen a consistent Lean and Continuous Improvement framework across U.S. organization.  

• Cross-Functional Process Improvement: Facilitate cross-functional improvement initiatives that bring teams together to understand end-to-end processes, identify constraints and root causes, simplify ways of working. 

• Multi-Site Alignment and Standardization: Partner with operational and functional teams across U.S. locations to identify opportunities for alignment and process standardization, share successful practices and lessons learned, and enable effective solutions to be replicated across the manufacturing network where appropriate. 

• Strategic Improvement Project Delivery: Take clear ownership for the planning, implementation, and delivery of selected strategic improvement projects, establishing objectives, milestones, ownership, measures of success, and cross-functional engagement to drive initiatives through successful completion.