Senior Director – Business Optimization

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September 5

🐊 Florida – Remote

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🗽 New York – Remote

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🐊 Florida – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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GDS Group

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B2B • Enterprise • Media

GDS Group is a global partner trusted by leading brands to drive pipeline growth and business transformation. The company specializes in creating engaging experiences and delivering valuable insights through events, pipelines, and connections. They have a strong presence among Fortune 500 companies, with a high conversion rate from leads to follow-up meetings. GDS also focuses on providing immersive experiences for senior executives through various channels, including articles, podcasts, and creatively produced content. Their services aim to maximize marketing budgets and deliver measurable returns for their clients.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1993

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Lead and promote a culture of high performance, lean and continuous improvement that values learning with a commitment to quality. • Manage, build and lead a team focused on delivering modern business processes and capabilities. • Partner with business leaders to drive greater financial and operational performance through improvements to current-state business operations and through longer-term redesign of how business value is delivered. • Lead complex, cross-functional projects that deliver significant business impacts in product or service delivery, quality, and cost. • Continually challenge the status quo and persistently pursue improvement opportunities and lead/develop team to do the same. • Lead and assist functional areas in identifying key metrics and validating savings related to automation and process improvements. • Champion the development and use of advanced productivity and automation capabilities such as robotic process automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. • Lead benchmarking programs and ensure results are incorporated into business improvement programs. • Design and deliver effective change management tools, artifacts, and enablers across all impacted business areas. • Travel up to 30% and as required • Direct line accountability to the VP Enterprise Transformation and work within the CIO’s senior management team.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated success implementing Lean Six Sigma projects in transactional and manufacturing environments. • Expertise in the use of Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies including DMAIC, DFSS, Kaizen, and PDCA. • Proficiency performing advanced statistical data analysis using Minitab or equivalent statistical software. • Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Green Belt, and Black Belt curriculum development and delivery. • Mentoring, coaching, and developing Yellow Belts, Green Belts, Black Belts and project teams in implementing process improvements that provide measurable impact to the business. • Total-cost / ROI financial analysis. • Facilitation across management and staff levels. Co-location and virtual. • Voice of the Customer data collection and analysis. • Service Model development and analysis • Risk Analysis • Superior business communications (written, verbal, and graphical) and presentation skills • Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio. • Aptitude for evolving technologies, including proficiency in evaluation and application • Demonstrated ability to think and plan strategically • BS/BA (Engineering degree preferred) • Master Black Belt Certification • Minimum 10 years as Lean Six Sigma Practitioner and Change Management Leader • Consulting experience (preferred) • Exposure to new AI tools and enterprise systems (Oracle, Microsoft) (preferred) • Agile best practices to include Safe, Agile Coaching and or SCRUM (preferred) • Operating Model (ex CMMI, ISO and or ITIL) development and audit (preferred) • Enterprise IT system life cycle analysis and deployment (preferred) • Change and Communications Management (preferred) • CPI professional development, PMP training or related industry experience also a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• participation in a retirement plan • life and disability insurance • health, dental and vision plans • flexible spending accounts • 15 paid vacation days • 2 paid personal days • 9 paid holidays • 40 hours of paid sick leave • parental leave • employee stock purchase plan