LEAN (TPS) SENSEI – GLOBAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION (MI, OH, IL, CT, PA, NJ, TX, GA, & Southern CA)

Value Stream Leadership is a retained executive search firm specialized in lean transformation leadership. 

 

Our prominent, global client is seeking several Lean Transformation Sensei?s.  We seek currently employed, top 10% performers with distinctive Toyota Production system knowledge lineage who have inaugurated and led breakthrough business transformations on a systemic and cultural level. 

 

This is a high bar opportunity well-matched to business turn-around leaders with deep knowledge of the Toyota Production System who enjoy solving problems on the shop floor and want to broaden their industry experience into such industries as: medical products, pharmaceutical, aerospace, chemical, high-technology, and multiple service related industries.  You will diagnose corporate strategy, operations, culture, and financial structure; develop/enhance the current-to-future state operations, systems, and infrastructure strategies, and evaluate/improve product, service line and customer profitability. 

 

Our placement success with this client has been with exceptionally bright, high potential manufacturing operations mid-managers and executives who are underutilized or blocked from progression. If you have grown weary and frustrated by traditional functional mindsets and are impatient for career success, and want to regain career traction to run a business in the next 3-8 years ? this is the best opportunity in North America that will put you in that direction.

 

OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

 

?  Unlimited, challenging, & lucrative long-term earnings potential.

?  Acquire ten-years senior executive leadership experience in two.

?  Elevate your leadership game in strategic business thinking and structured problem solving.  Work at C level to design strategies that will improve business performance and health.

?  Grow and expand your current business diagnostics and change management experience in product development, supply chain, marketing, finance, distribution, and customer service. 

?  Partner with and be challenged by the brightest business minds in the world and establish the type of professional network that will produce your entire career. 

?  Witness your results first hand as company?s implement your strategies and realize cost reduction and revenue growth 

?  Gain immediate ownership on your next planned career move (assignments & geography). 

 

REQUIRMENTS

 

?  Currently employed with outstanding performance history.

?  Minimum five, and maximum twenty years manufacturing operations leadership experience. P&L experience including sales is highly desired. 

?  BSIE, ME, or EE is REQUIRED.  MBA from top 50 B-School is highly desired.

?  MUST have distinctive Toyota Production System knowledge lineage and skills acquired directly by a prominent TPS Sensei. 

?  Three to five years? management experience driving the Toyota Production System principals, methods, tools on a systemic and cultural level achieving breakthrough results.  

?  Intrinsic, top-down business problem solving experience in providing strategic guidance to the top management.

?  MUST possess advanced quantitative, conceptual and analytical skills. Strong results orientation and drive. High degree of creativity and independent thinking. Strong interpersonal, facilitation and coaching skills.  Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including platform presentation skills. High level of energy/enthusiasm. Flexible/adaptable; ability to work with diverse groups of people and in many different situations. Experience communicating with executives and senior leaders.

?  MUST be flexible to travel a minimum of three days per week domestically.

 

Since 1995, Value Stream Leadership has helped hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies hire exceptional lean transformation leadership talent. Our search services are targeted at business transformation leaders with deep lean lineage who have driven change on both the systemic and cultural level that is crucial to achieving sustained results, increasing revenue and growing businesses.

For immediate, confidential consideration, please email a Word Document resume to: kristi@valuestreamleaders.com .  All replies are confidential.  Responses must include a daytime phone number (cell phone). Please visit our website at www.valuestreamleadership.com for more information about our search practice.

 

NOTE:  If the three days per week travel is more than you are able to accommodate but wish to still seek the many unpublished opportunities our firm works with, we would love to review your resume for other client?s needs.

 

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