Asia Business Operations

**Job Description Summary**: Coach, drive and manage Lean behaviors, principles, and tools by partnering with Operating Leaders in business management roles (e.g. GM General manager of Business Unit, or Executive Lead of a Function). Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics. May also be roles that are part of Corporate or Business Unit Kaizen Promotion Offices (KPO).

**Essential Responsibilities**

As the Regional Business Operations & Lean Manager you will:
Commit to be a servant leader, humble listener, team worker, trainer and coach.

Mange the operationalization of the Lean Initiatives for the business in the Pole
- Business Kaizen Action plan execution across the Pole
- Sustainment of improvements
- Help ensuring alignment on prioritization between the business and the Pole

Build Lean Capabilities across the Pole
- Train and Coach Pole employees on fundamentals of Lean (Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, Flow, Problem Solving, Standard Work, Daily Management, Leader Standard Work, Action Planning, Hoshin Kanri, 5S+1, Visual Management etc)
- Develop Lean Coaches to empower the business to lead Problem Solving & Kaizens for Lean Improvements
- Maintain data base of employees trained on Lean Tools
- Coach Business Lean Leadership Program Participants from Pole to help develop and implement their Learning Development Plans
- Help build Continuous Improvement culture by influencing stakeholders to adopt Lean mindset

Build Process Capabilities across the Pole
- Develop Kaizen Calendar and run the rhythm to keep it updated
- Follow up on open actions in Kaizen Calendar with the stakeholders to ensure timely completion
- Lead and run 3-5 days Kaizen events and ensure completion of Kaizen Newspaper actions to ensure sustainment
- Transform the Value Stream to bring performance change in KPI
- Lead Problem solving and coach teams to ensure completions of actions and ensure sustainment
- Coach teams and help them run Daily Management at different Tiers each week.

**Qualifications/Requirements**
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college or equivalent knowledge.
- Min 10 years of experience in Project Operations, Quality, Commercial Excellence or Continuous Improvement with proven track record of results using Lean methodologies.
- Experience in leading Kaizen, driving problem solving and doing daily management.
- Lean Six Sigma Certification.
- Strong problem-solving skills, experience of managing cross-functional projects and data analytics.

**Desired Characteristics**
- Servant and collaborative leader
- Open mindset, candid, transparent
- Highly capable of translating complex messages in simple words to share knowledge
- Lean practitioner, capable of facilitating kaizen events and coaching the core tools such as Daily Management, structured Problem Solving, Standard Work, Transactional Process Improvement.
- Experience driving transformation
- Proven to be effective driving outcomes in large, matrixed organizations - understands how to navigate geographies, cultures, relationships, etc. Can drive work around the world because they are accountable, trustworthy, credible, committed, and intellectually agile
- Change agent, able to make the case for Lean and demonstrate immediate impact
- Highly collaborative person, comfortable with conflict and debate normally associated with change
- Critical thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities
- Ability to drive process simplification and influence others with effective communication

**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No

LI-Remote - This is a remote position