Continuous Improvement Senior Specialist

**Job Purpose and Impact**

The Continuous Improvement Specialist will develop, implement and sustain process improvement initiatives. In this role, you will conduct continuous improvement activities with medium project cost and risk and activities with less defined processes for multiple locations.

**Key Accountabilities**

+ Work with key stakeholders to identify, prioritize and execute continuous improvement initiatives

+ Directly provide updates on the project objectives, performance measures, issues and risks to partners and management.

+ Monitor and implement continuous improvement best practices.

+ Develop and handle continuous improvement plans for projects with medium cost and risk to reach and sustain project goals.

+ Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, resource evaluation and execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business needs.

+ Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.

+ Other duties as assigned

**Qualifications**

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

+ Minimum of four years of related work experience

+ Lean Six Sigma Black Belt preferred

+ Exposure to Source-to-Pay projects and familiar with direct material sourcing process

+ Other minimum qualifications may apply

**KEY BEHAVIORS**

+ Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments.

+ Make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory, information to effectively solve problems.

+ Create new and better ways for the organization to be successful.

**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES TO BE GAINED**

+ Experience conducting continuous improvement activities with medium-to-high project cost and risk.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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