Director Enterprise Operational Excellence

Job Overview

The Director, Enterprise Operational Excellence establishes and maintains relationships with senior leaders in order to influence and lead enterprise business transformation strategies to achieve the company’s vision and objectives. This role will provide leadership, development, and coaching for a team of Enterprise Business Process Managers and Enterprise Project Managers; while ensuring the successful execution of enterprise change initiatives, process development and improvement. The Director of Enterprise Operational Excellence serves as a change agent and will model, lead and coach people on the culture change necessary to support and sustain business process transformation; and collaborate with external partners to develop and enhance enterprise technology solutions.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain relationships with senior leaders in order to influence and lead enterprise business transformation strategies to achieve the company’s vision and objectives
• Provide leadership, development, and coaching for a team of Enterprise Business Process Managers and Enterprise Project Managers. Ensure the successful execution of enterprise change initiatives, process development, and improvement utilizing process, project, and change management methodologies
• Lead, manage, and provide subject matter expertise to multiple enterprise change initiatives involving the design and implementation of new enterprise business processes, process improvements, enterprise business practices, or new technology solutions. Communicate with key leaders on initiative progress, status, and risk mitigation strategies
• Model, lead and coach people on the culture change necessary to support and sustain business process transformation
• Collaborate with and influence external bottling and software partners and provide leadership in the design, development, and enhancement of enterprise technology solutions

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Ability to teach, coach, lead, and manage highly skilled personnel
• Ability to lead and influence without authority to drive change across the organization
• Willingness to display managerial courage in an appropriate manner
• Bottler industry, business enterprise knowledge, or specific functional experience
• Ability to communicate with and influence all levels of the organization and bottling partners
• Ability to understand the interdependencies of systems and processes
• Critical problem solving and strategic thinking skills
• Business process design and documentation experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Proven project management skills
• Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities and projects
• Excellent PC skills, SAP knowledge, Bottler specific applications, and process mapping tools

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years)
• Knowledge acquired through 7 or more years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering or equivalent.
• Project Management Professional, Agile, Process Management, Six Sigma certification is preferred.

Work Environment

Office Environment

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