Senior Director, Operational Excellence

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❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $195k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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Jack Link's Protein Snacks

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1986

🏭 Manufacturing

👥 B2C

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Manufacturing • B2C • Food & Beverage

Jack Link's Protein Snacks is a well-known provider of high-quality meat snacks, including jerky, sticks, strips, and bars made from beef, pork, turkey, and chicken. The company offers an extensive range of flavors such as Original, Teriyaki, Peppered, and Sweet & Spicy, catering to a wide array of taste preferences. Jack Link's engages in collaborations, like the Jack Link's x Frito Lay and Jack Link's x Squid Game editions, and provides a subscription service for convenience and savings. The brand emphasizes a robust, adventurous image with its 'Feed Your Wild Side' slogan and Sasquatch mascot, appealing to consumers looking for a satisfying, protein-rich snack.

📋 Description

• Lead the company’s continuous improvement strategy across all manufacturing sites • Build processes, capabilities, tools, and governance for a consistent, sustainable continuous improvement approach • Establish a standardized manufacturing excellence framework grounded in lean principles, structured problem solving, loss elimination, standard work, and performance management • Lead the CI change effort and develop the company’s continuous improvement strategy and roadmap across all factories • Establish common CI methodology, tools, governance, terminology, and expectations across the manufacturing network • Establish and advance Lean manufacturing practices, including standard work, Kaizen, 5S, value-stream mapping, visual management, root-cause analysis, waste elimination, centerlining, and structured problem solving • Develop CI training, tools, playbooks, and learning programs • Develop a network of plant-level Continuous Improvement champions • Work with Plant Leadership Teams to track targets and KPIs, set action plans, and conduct follow-up meetings • Manage daily, weekly, and monthly KPI charting and posting • Use Power BI and SAP to turn operational data into usable information • Apply statistics and analytical methods to identify improvement opportunities and support decisions • Implement and manage cost savings tracking aligned with corporate standards • Partner with the Safety Director on incident investigation, hazard reduction, and safety considerations in Kaizen events • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in operations, manufacturing, supply chain, business, engineering, food science, or related field, or equivalent experience in continuous improvement • 7 to 10 years experience in a manufacturing environment, including a leadership role • 5+ years in influencing roles, such as CI, Lean, or support functions • Experience or education in statistical process control, root cause analysis, or other analytical methods • Training and hands-on experience with value stream mapping, kaizen methods, 5S, leader standard work, and other Lean tools • Project management experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver on timelines, budgets, and goals • Experience developing or implementing a playbook for a management operating system (MOS) and a continuous improvement program, including how the playbook was rolled out across sites • Experience with SAP and Power BI for operational reporting preferred • Experience in food or consumer packaged goods manufacturing preferred • Experience with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), including working exposure to Autonomous Maintenance (AM) and Planned Maintenance (PM) pillars preferred • Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills • Ability to influence leaders at every level • Diplomacy in communicating needs and recommendations • Proactive style that drives projects to completion despite obstacles • Collaborative team approach • Ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams at once • Proficiency in Microsoft Office

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical benefits • Dental benefits • Vision benefits • Life insurance • Disability insurance • 401k participation • Paid holidays • Paid time off

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