Senior Manager Automation Implementation and Continuous Improvement
Bimbo Bakeries
- Horsham, PA
- $95,000-133,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead a team of Automation Implementation Specialists
- Ensure consistent discipline to established procedures and processes.
- Collaborate with internal customers to define key objectives and monitor team progress to ensure said objectives are on-track to be met.
- Collaborate with Sales, Operations, and Customer Service teams.
- Identify business requirements for new processes and technologies.
- Train and evaluate others.
- Develop data and analytical tools that can be used to drive business improvements across multiple facilities.
- Coordinate Kaizen and continuous improvement activities.
- Effective communicator with the ability to articulate a vision and a compelling reason for change.
- Comfortable with driving change and interacting with all levels of leadership.
- Inspirational leader that promotes trust and collaboration in all encounters
- Great listener, flexible, and open to directional changes based upon business needs and prioritization.
- Works well in a team environment, understanding that the obligation to the greater good is paramount.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work and competing interests.
- Deals well in ambiguous situations or in environments when not all facts are available.
- Works to simplify and optimize processes to ensure quality execution.
- Has the capacity to innovate and respond to changing conditions along with the ability to balance structure & flexibility by planning for the known elements and preparing for change?
- Willingness to travel (up to 50%) & work flexible schedules, hours, etc.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business Management, IT, or similar relevant field
- Experience: Minimum 7 years as a Supply Chain Manager or similar role
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite: Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Work experience in an organization using Agile or Scrum project management methods.
- Prior experience with enterprise planning and warehouse management tools (ex. Oracle, SAP) preferred.
- Six-Sigma or LEAN experience preferred.
- Prior experience with high turnover inventory-based operations
- Understanding of industrial automation design, implementation, and management procedures
- Prior experience working with tools such as Minitab, Visio, Oracle, Network modeling & simulation tools preferred.