Process Excellence and Business Integration Lead ? Innovate to Forecast

Process Excellence and Business Integration Lead - Innovate to Forecast

Hybrid - Lakeville 3x a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)

Responsibilities:

• Create, modify, and validate process maps
• Work with business partners and IT on integration activities for workstream including design and discovery phases
• Recommend and implement process improvements using deep knowledge of the "Innovate to Forecast" processes
• Implement and follow standardized work output (content, communication, organization)
• Discover and implement opportunities for value creation, working with functional teams to drive impact to KPIs

What problems are you aiming to solve by hiring this role?

• Increase thought leadership within team specific to "Innovate to Forecast" workstream to drive faster business process change and improvement

Briefly explain what your group does and how this position falls within the structure.

The Process Excellence & Business Integration team focuses on:

• Preparing and enabling the company to develop repeatable, scalable, and standardized integration readiness for mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
• Driving a business process focused culture
• Developing and maintaining process standard documentation, maps, and best practices to drive cost savings and efficiency

What are the non-negotiable skills/experience/education levels?

• Competent in end-to-end business processes across the "Innovate to Forecast" workstream within a CPG environment:
• product lifecycle management
• R&D
• product and packaging development
• regulatory
• consumer affairs
• product commercialization
• System and process focused mindset
• Cross-functional business acumen
• Ability to collaborate across functional areas
• Develop relationships outside of team to influence decision making
• Analytical and critical thinking skills
• Ability to attack complex business issues and simplify decision-making and execution

Nice to have

• Prior merger and acquisition experience in a business lead role
• Involved in technology-enabled improvement projects
• Consumer packaged goods and food manufacturing

What sort of titles and companies should we be looking for in qualified candidates?

• Product Owner
• Business Analyst / Sr Business Analyst
• Product Development Manager
• Process Engineering Manager / Process Engineer
• Continuous Improvement Engineer

What do you see as the largest challenge/opportunity for the chosen candidate in this role?

• Initiating conversations around value creation with business process owners that result in measurable improvement
• Pace of work and perseverance: ability to work on concurrent initiatives successfully

Does this position have any Direct Reports?

• No

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