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Our client’s product line spans the broad frozen treats spectrum. Best known for its premium brands of ice cream and frozen novelties, the company sells its retail products in convenience stores, restaurants, supermarkets, and vending machines. Its foodservice division produces ice cream and specialty desserts for restaurants, schools, and ice cream shops.

Already strong across the Midwest, our client has designs on growing into national brand. With state-of-the-art production facilities, and cited by industry experts as one of the most technically advanced, the company manufactures and packages over 2,000 products in almost every size, shape, style, and flavor imaginable.   Also, in keeping with leading taste and technology trends, our client produces an awesome-tasting line of Splenda-sweetened ice cream. So much to enjoy!

Why Our Client is Different – and Why YOU Should Be Here!

Successful people and organizations hold certain beliefs or values about themselves. One of our client’s most visible and critical values is the belief in work/life balance of team members, an important consideration in today’s hectic world where attention to personal issues and family responsibilities is often sacrificed for corporate objectives. In addition, our client puts a premium on innovation and results rather than bureaucracy. This kind of focus on people and innovation has allowed the company to build a loyal, dynamic and highly productive group of associates at all levels of the organization, resulting in continuing benefits from the successful pioneering efforts of these valued associates.

Critical Mission

Our client’s new Director, Continuous Improvement (Director CI) will take full responsibility for developing an effective CI program which provides tools, techniques and resources to support the organization’s efforts to significantly improve Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.              (Download PDF version here)

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Tags: Continuous Improvement, Lean

Vice President Operations

Marvin Windows & Doors

Four-Season Outdoor Paradise

Warroad, MN

Adam Zak helps connect exceptionally skilled Lean executives with companies that are truly committed to long-term Lean operations success. Adam’s hands-on approach to Lean executive recruiting helps his clients drive and sustain their Lean transformation, while helping executives find a new corporate home where they can create a direct, meaningful impact with their LEAN skills and expertise.

But sometimes, it’s not just about your skill at managing a certain number of people, your comfort level in a specific sized organization, or the depth and breadth of your LEAN expertise that’s important. Lifestyle and family values considerations are critical to long-term success, and small-town living is not for everyone.   And our client, Marvin Windows and Doors, would like this to be a successful match for you and for them, for the long term.

I’m conducting an executive search for an exceptionally talented Vice President, Operations, someone who can lead a business of over 2000 team members, 7 direct reports (2 plant managers, components & assembly; materials director; director technical services; quality manager; CI manager; manufacturing services manager), and manufacturing volume of $300 million+.  Someone who is a LEAN Leader and understands how to drive continuous improvement in a LEAN Enterprise.

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Tags: Lean Executive, Lean Manufacturing

Director, Lean Six Sigma Consulting

Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Scottsdale, or…

I’m conducting an executive search for a world-class practitioner of LEAN, Six Sigma and process improvement consulting and training.

Why Should You Consider this Position?

Because you are driven to excel. Passionate about LEAN. Steeped in Six Sigma. Creative. Analytical. Professional. You think and act like an entrepreneur. You crave to make a difference. You love to solve problems and your solutions must make an impact. Not just in the work cell, but across the enterprise, clearly improving your client’s operational and financial success.  You are hands-on, yet also connect to the big picture. You have breakthrough ideas, you share them, you collaborate. You are rewarded for your results. You derive professional and personal satisfaction from your career success. Is this you?  We must talk! (847 304-5301) 

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Tags: Consulting, Lean, Lean Sensei Position, Lean/Sigma Position, Six Sigma

Lean Manufacturing Specialist-Consultant

Global Leader in Lean Manufacturing Consulting

Moscow, Russia

Our client is a major international consulting firm, one of the top global consultancies, which has built a specialized functional Lean Manufacturing practice area within its Operations Group.  The Firm has set the standards of excellence in top management consulting for over three-quarters of a century. They advise decision makers in leading companies, the public sector, non-profit organizations, and innovative, fast-growing start-ups around the globe. Over 6,000 consultants are dedicated to fulfilling their mission: to help clients achieve substantial and lasting improvement in their performance.

We are searching for talented individuals to join our client’s team of consultants working in Lean Manufacturing. We seek a limited number of world-class, hands-on experts in Lean manufacturing systems and processes (Toyota Production System-based expertise).  Individuals will join the firm as consultants/specialists, or very senior level, seasoned consultants with very strong subject matter expertise, and will relocate to and work out of the Moscow, Russia office. 

Why Might You be Interested in This Position?

Today, achieving excellence in manufacturing increasingly brings competitive advantage. Are you interested in developing innovative change processes in production and helping clients to implement them? Are you looking for a professional environment in which you can continuously develop your own knowledge and skills? 

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Tags: Lean consulting, Lean Manufacturing, Russia

Lean Solutions Implementation – Senior Manager

Premier Financial Services Organization

Chicago North-Suburban

The Company

Our client, a $6 billion+  financial services organization, is best known for issuing its own-brand of credit cards which are used by more than 50 million members at some 4 million merchant locations worldwide. The company also has a payment-processing network, owns an EFT ATM network, and in 2006 entered the debit card arena, allowing banks to offer house-branded debit cards. More recently, our client forged reciprocity alliances with card issuers in Japan and China, and just a short while ago agreed to acquire Diners Club International from Citigroup, a business which will add significantly to its international network.

In an unprecedented move, and as part of its strong belief in actually listening to the “voice of the customer”, our client in 2006 announced it would no longer require retailers to charge customers for using credit or debit cards (common practice among competitors).

Spun off from a major diversified investment banking group in 2007, the company has launched a major growth and improvement initiative across its domestic and global operations.  In late 2007 the company committed to and launched itself on a global continuous improvement journey based on LEAN and principles of the Toyota Production System and Six Sigma.  Which brings us to the creation of this new role, that of Lean Solutions Manager.

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Tags: Chicago, Financial Services, Lean Sensei Position, Lean Staff Position, Six Sigma