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)
Client Profile
Since 1994 our client has helped hundreds of companies, from the largest of the Fortune 500 to the smallest private equity portfolio company, improve how they operate. They’ve delivered billions of dollars in bottom line benefits: higher margins, revenue growth, and more efficient use of capital. At the same time, they have helped clients truly transform their operations – boosting efficiency and efficacy, increasing customer satisfaction, empowering individuals, and building internal skills and talent.
The Company was founded in 1994 by the progenitors of the Six Sigma revolution at Motorola. They developed the Six Sigma methodology, teaching companies like GE, Allied-Signal, DuPont and Merrill Lynch to achieve a higher level of quality, with substantially lower costs. Along the way, our client quickly found that the basic framework and tools of Six Sigma were applicable to much more than cost and quality, and well beyond the manufacturing floor or order-processing desk. From these real-world learnings and experiences, our client developed one of the most widely used and well-regarded management systems – a way of transforming a business using analysis, rigor, and individual empowerment.
Today, our client continues to improve and evolve from that legacy. The nature of their consulting work has expanded well outside the boundaries of Lean and Six Sigma. Their new brand, name and identity more effectively represent how they leverage process improvement expertise more broadly and deeply to help clients transform organizations.
Our client works with commercial and investment Banks, private equity and professional services firms, and many global Fortune 500 firms in consumer products, energy, healthcare, industrial products and communications & technology industries. The Company has offices in New York, Beijing, Dusseldorf, London, Paris, Scottsdale and Shanghai.
Position Summary
Our Director, Lean Six Sigma Consulting will ideally reside in the Metro New York, Atlanta, Boston, Washington D.C., Chicago or Scottsdale regions, or within any major metro area easily accessible to a hub airport. He or she will travel regularly across the United States (some international travel possible) to client locations. Our Director, Lean Six Sigma Consulting will be responsible for managing client relationships and the Lean/Sigma work engagements that result from those relationships, from project beginning onward. Our Director will be hands-on in driving projects, applying Lean and Six Sigma techniques to analyze client/project operational and financial metrics, developing project execution plans and targets, and supporting overall execution of client engagements.
Responsibilities
· Work closely with the client to analyze both operational processes and financial metrics of the client to assess project opportunities that positively impact the financial performance of the client business
· Develop and implement the roll out the execution plan with emphasis on yielding multiple ROI for the client
· Provide Lean training, facilitate Kaizen Events and provide follow-up to drive operational improvements
· Mentor and coach others in the use of Lean tools on assessments, operational analysis and implementation of lean methods
· Ensure that the work provided is consistent with the firm’s domain expertise and beliefs and is delivered with high-impact, tangible results
· Support the firm’s activity in developing new business and developing intellectual property.
· Extensive travel to client locations; international travel possible
Requirements
· Minimum of five years of direct LEAN experience and at least two years of SIX SIGMA experience in a manufacturing environment and preferably a transactional environment (financial services, airlines, etc.).
· Ability to clearly quantify project metrics/results in terms of hard savings, soft savings and non-financial improvements.
· Three-plus years of prior consulting experience in a management consulting firm preferred.
· Five years of operational leadership experience in a large manufacturing or transactional corporation required. Internal consulting experience for a recognized leader in Lean/Six Sigma (LSS) methodologies preferred.
· Direct experience leading multiple kaizen events and Six Sigma quality-based projects.
· Hands-on experience leading LEAN events in LEAN tools areas including setup reduction, TPM, standard work, etc. Strong preference for experience in value stream design and plant re-design.
· MBA preferred, engineering or business undergraduate degree required
About Travel
The individuals who choose to be a part of our client’s success would describe the firm’s environment as empowering, attentive to each individual’s professional and personal goals and objectives, and family-friendly. By its nature, however, world-class consulting work requires extensive travel. Firm members find that a 75% travel expectation is not unusual. Please consider this in light of your lifestyle preferences.
Contact Sheila Cunningham or Adam Zak:
Adam Zak Executive Search, Executive Recruiting for the Lean Enterprise
POB 129, Barrington, IL 60011-0129 USA
Direct +1 847 304 5301 Main +1 847 304 5300
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