Director, Commercial & Operations

About the role

A business leadership role that partners with unit leaders to drive commercial and financial performance and leads lean and continuous improvement efforts across safety, quality, delivery and cost.

What you will do

• Act as a strategic partner to business leaders, spotting ways to improve or speed up objectives
• Assess current processes, capability and talent gaps and help shape the future state
• Define and execute large cross-functional improvement initiatives tied to annual priorities
• Run on-site workshops, Kaizen events and training to guide teams through transformation
• Coach managers and associates on commercial process tools such as daily management and funnel management
• Share best practices across businesses with the commercial operations counterpart and embed process discipline

What they look for

• Experience leading operational excellence and continuous improvement in commercial and manufacturing settings
• Strategic leadership combined with hands-on implementation of lean methods
• Ability to develop roadmaps for sales growth, share gains, value propositions and product launches
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills with business managers and associates