Vice President, VES, PQI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Segment Leader to design leadership meeting agendas and business reviews focused on significant priorities.

• Facilitate the annual business planning process and enable strategic initiatives.

• Oversee Policy Deployment, linking long-term strategy with key priorities and actionable plans.

• Identify performance deficiencies and execution challenges, applying VES methodologies to address underlying issues.

• Support the integration of acquisitions through VES implementation and capability enhancement.

• Drive growth, innovation, and operational excellence through targeted improvement initiatives.

• Enhance daily management practices, standard work, and structured problem-solving techniques.

• Utilize business, operational, and Policy Deployment reviews to identify gaps and evaluate progress.

• Lead impactful kaizen activities and strategic growth initiatives, including Growth Rooms and Obeya.

• Recognize and propagate successful practices across operating companies.

• Mentor and advise senior leaders on VES and sustainable transformation.

• Define and implement the VES capability and certification roadmap.

• Lead and nurture the VES organization while mentoring VES leaders in operating companies.

• Establish succession pipelines and foster an active VES leadership community.

• Deploy certified practitioners and trainers to achieve business impact.

• Manage the budget and talent priorities for the VES function.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in leading and applying continuous improvement principles across growth, innovation, and lean, with a proven track record of delivering sustained business outcomes.

• Senior leadership experience within a multinational organization, obtained as an enterprise business system leader or operating company executive with significant responsibilities for continuous improvement and business performance.

• Extensive practitioner knowledge of lean/continuous improvement principles or a comparable enterprise business system, covering daily management, standard work, structured problem-solving, and kaizen.

• Experience in facilitating Policy Deployment workshops, executive or President-level kaizens, and developing certified practitioner roadmaps aligned with strategic business objectives.

• Direct experience working with teams at Gemba to enhance problem-solving skills, build capabilities, and maintain improvements through practical learning.

• Significant hands-on experience in new product development and the application of continuous improvement techniques to innovation processes.

• A proven history of building and developing teams, coaching senior leaders, and enhancing organizational capabilities across various functions and regions.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Marketing, or Operations is required.

• A Master’s degree in a related field or an MBA is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for incentive pay.

• Paid time off.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k).