Senior Manager LEAN LATAM

• Partners with business leadership to identify and prioritize opportunities to create positive bottom-line growth.
• Engages, negotiates, resolves conflict, and builds strong consultative relationships and strategic partnerships with senior leaders to facilitate change.
• Engages at a higher capacity, influences, and executes the strategy and vision of the business unit.
• Coordinates the development and communicates with client organizations to ensure satisfactory completion.
• Facilitates updates, meetings and key communication with functional managers and executives.

• Implement the capability building plan through various training and mentoring efforts for both Operational Process Excellence and leadership development in Continuous Improvement.
• Demonstrates value of CI program through success metrics, value creation (improvements in customer satisfaction, service levels, cost, and income).
• Implement the Continuous Improvement system (Operational Process Excellence) for Ingram Micro
• Effectively manage a portfolio of leveraged projects to affect the bottom line of the company.
• Execute the strategic direction to ensure functional excellence.

• Establishes priorities, determines timeliness of the planning and conducts the implementation on time, with quality and under budget, while partnering effectively with the rest of the stakeholder divisions.
• Introduces ideas generated and system enhancements put in place to reduce costs and improve reliability and customer satisfaction in critical company-wide business processes.
• This role will generate a significant multiple of invested cost in terms of value creation (ROI = 3x investment)
• Prioritizes initiatives and create implementation plans in conjunction with Operations, IT, Project Management and Account Management.
• Develops and establishes supporting metrics for processes.
• Ensures process standardization and proliferate best practices.
• Evaluates educational material for Ingram Micro Mobility Functional Managers and facilitates the sharing of best practices.

• Strategic thinking and road mapping
• Financial Acumen (cost / profit center ownership / budgeting)
• Key IM Competencies - Strategic & Global Mindset, Change Agent, Collaboration and Influence, Team Leadership
• Structured project management
• Process mapping skills
• Executive presentation skills / articulates business cases
• High aptitude for several forms of structured problem solving (DMAIC, 5 whys, Ishikawa, etc.)
• Deep Kaizen facilitation
• Bias to process thinking not "training" as a solution
• Insatiable thirst for growth/knowledge with bias to analytical thinking

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline - or - equivalent work experience in warehouse / distribution, manufacturing, or logistics environment
• 8 or more years of functional experience in Lean /Continuous improvement application and technique methods with proven results and 2 or more years in a supervisory role, preferably managing subordinate managers.
• 5+ years’ experience working in warehouse distribution and Intimate knowledge of related Distribution Center operations best business practices.
• Experience in deploying Lean Six Sigma or other Continuous Improvement methodologies in enterprises of comparable size.
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (preferred, not required)
• Strong knowledge of Industrial Engineering.
• Strong financial and analytical ability.
• Strong proficiency in Work Measurements.
• Strong and convincing communication skills.
• Broad capability building in Continuous Improvement.
• Proficiency in managing business analytics to determine optimum output and results.
• Proven track record of successful change management and accomplishments implementing productivity and cost reduction programs.
• Ability to work with leadership across the organization to bring about positive behavioral change.
• Ability to work positively with front line teams to deliver on project goals.

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