Principal Operational Excellence Consultant

Responsibilities

• Involved in the MCA sales cycle by preparing sales presentations, calculating change management needs of clients and writing statements of work for contracting MCA operational excellence resources time and deliverables. 

• Facilitate and lead consultative services to clients regarding their preparedness for enterprise transformation utilizing tools and techniques designed to drive and support industry best practice 

• Assess and document a client’s current culture, awareness, and adoption of best practice manufacturing and operational excellence techniques and integration with supporting technologies 

• Design and lead executive sessions with clients to define their cross functional strategic plans 

• Conduct and lead team sessions to define current and future state processes and value streams 

• Develop quantitative modeling of current business performance and future state design to support client growth and profit objectives.   

• Deliver presentation to senior executives regarding the ROI and value creation of engagements 

• Prepare strategy and high-level project plans for migration from current state to proposed design. 

• Identify and resolve issues pertinent to the success of projects, including change management, process change implementation, data flow, application implementation, and issue escalation and resolution. 

• Develop and present deliverables to senior executives and all level with an organization 

• Facilitate development of the KPI measurements of success 

• Building a framework for managing changes in client’s organization 

• End state defined: “what does success look like” 

• Create operational excellence training materials and programs to train and mentor other MCA Connect team members 

Qualifications

• Executive leadership skills to manage and develop change management staff  

• Excellent presentation and sales skills with ability to influence all levels of organizational structure  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required 

• Minimum of 15 years of experience with an understanding of enterprise solutions 

• Experience with strategic business transformation or manufacturing with a minimum of 8 years in two of the following: 

• Industry experience in lean manufacturing 

• Strategic business transformation experience utilizing Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement & Six Sigma tools (i.e. SIPOC, Swim Lane Diagrams, etc.) 

• Implementation of industry best practices to support business transformation 

• Experience implementing continuous improvement tools & concepts 

• Experience with ERP with a minimum of the following: 

• ERP general consulting or in production for a minimum of 10 years 

• ERP Master Planning consulting or in production for a minimum of 5 years 

• ERP lean manufacturing consulting or in production for a minimum of 5 years 

• Design of unique solutions for high mix manufacturing challenges 

• Integration of MRP into scheduling solutions across supply chain     

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal 

• Solid skills with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle 

• Software implementation project experience 

• Ability to travel up to 80%

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with lean manufacturing ERP solutions, Operational Excellence/Continuous Improvement tools or Six Sigma tools strongly preferred. 

• Understanding of and ability to formulate adoption models for trends in operational excellence and business transformation. 

• Passionate about business transformation with a focus on value creation and waste reduction in every aspect of the consulting engagement with the customer.  

• Committed to learning, exploring new ideas, and staying at the leading edge. 

• Committed to quality.  

• Creativity to initiate new ideas and think out of the norm. 

• Minimum ten years in managing and developing direct reports 

• Project management experience