Job Description:
• Serve as the Scrap and Manufacturing Process Waste Reduction Network Program Lead, including definition of measurement systems, visibility, and reporting for material, process, and performance-related waste.
• Act as Operations Productivity Lead, managing business productivity process implementation and ongoing evolution across the network.
• Partner with Site FP&A teams to align definitions, standardize financial measures, and ensure consistent application of productivity, scrap, labor, and cost-of-sales metrics across global manufacturing sites.
• Define and drive labor efficiency and workforce utilization optimization metrics, including financial impact assessment and prioritization insights to support workforce strategy decisions.
• Lead alignment of financial and operational performance metrics across SAP S/4, MES, and emerging AI-driven analytics solutions, in partnership with Operations Finance and AI & Data teams.
• Drive automation of next-generation manufacturing performance metrics to enable scalable, timely, and decision-ready insights.
• Ensure consistency and integrity of financial inputs supporting manufacturing execution, productivity, and cost-of-sales initiatives across the global manufacturing network.
• Establish performance measurement systems that translate business performance into financial insights, enabling fact-based decision-making.
• Drive capacity optimization analyses and develop cost attribution models that translate manufacturing execution and capacity decisions into clear financial impact to support network-level decision-making.
• Lead the Bend the Cost Curve initiative for Manufacturing, defining initiatives and tracking value realization across the network.
• Deliver financial value by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, with emphasis on scrap and waste reduction, productivity optimization, and cost-of-sales improvement.
Requirements:
• Doctorate degree and 3 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Master’s degree and 5 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Associate’s degree and 12 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• High school diploma / GED and 14 years of manufacturing or operations experience
• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally to identify and enable technology-driven cost-of-sales improvement opportunities in manufacturing.
• Experience with capital finance rules and policy.
• Experience translating business performance into clear financial insights, tracking, and forecasts.
• Demonstrated ability to lead network-wide, cross-functional initiatives that are both strategic and technical (e.g., program leadership, value tracking).
• Experience integrating financial and operational data across ERP (SAP S/4), MES, and advanced analytics platforms.
• Experience driving automation and standardization of performance metrics in a manufacturing or operations environment.
Benefits:
• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
• group medical, dental and vision coverage
• life and disability insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible.