Management of the activities and projects in Business Excellence Department. Lead the CPP, CRP and special project team members and responsibilities within the specified PBU.

The duties and responsibilities outlined in the job description are to be used as a guideline and are not meant to be all-inclusive of the essential functions of the position. Other duties may be assigned, as necessary.

• Organizational, technical, and commercial responsibility for the department and related projects/programs
• Lead the CRP activities for the associated PBU. Identify, develop and implement cost savings projects to meet or exceed the annual associated targets
• Track CRP performance and report out monthly on performance and project status
• Support development of the annual CRP savings target to support the AOP budget process
• Lead the CPP activities for the associated PBU. Targeted business acquisition plan development including benchmarking, BOM target pricing, initial design development and quotation development
• Lead the cross functional teams to bring all inputs together and challenge appropriately to support the on-time quote submission
• Align with GPL and other regions on component development toward market demands on product and cost to support targeted business
• Engage Sales and the PBU to communicate with customers and develop working relationships
• Develop and present the monthly executive presentation material for business acquisition
• Manage the CRP and CPP workload appropriately to balance special topics that are assigned
• Employee management with technical instruction (incl. defining KPIs) and disciplinary supervision, induction of new employees, goal setting and tracking and annual review development      
• Enable employees to improve the processes within their department by themselves
• Elaboration of optimal work processes and improvement initiatives to ensure an efficient and standardized approach in all activities

• Informing management about decisions and actions in the department with escalation when needed

Qualifications: 

• Analytical and strategic thinking skills
• Communication and presentation skills