Focused Improvement Manager

6 months ago


Brantford, Canada Treehouse Foods Full time

**Employee Type**:
Full time

**Location**:
ON Brantford

**Job Type**:
Supply Chain Continuous Improvement

**Job Posting Title**:
Focused Improvement Manager

**About Us**:
TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

**What You Gain**:

- Competitive compensation and benefits program
- Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs
- Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities
- An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people
- Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth
- Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs

**About the Role**:

- **Serves as a both tactical and strategic partner with the site leadership team and process owners to implement/sustain the TreeHouse Management Operating Structure and ensure standard manufacturing processes are in place.**:

- **Monitors and supports key metrics and KPIs for overall supply chain performance and process effectiveness within the site. Supports/coaches KPI owners in completion of gap analyses, identification and implementation of corrective actions, and assessment to ensure that gap is closed.**:

- **Serves as a strategic partner with the division continuous improvement leader to maintain alignment and compliance with the TreeHouse continuous improvement strategy and division/enterprise initiatives.**:

- **Leads a portfolio of projects and team(s) in the review and analysis of moderate to large supply chain processes to ensure efficient and effective operations.**:

- **Identifies supply chain process requirements, improvement opportunities and best practices for site, ensuring alignment with TreeHouse Management Operating Structure. Leads replication activities for the site.**:

- **Participates with management to leverage site data to prioritize projects, define project requirements, scope, resources, team members, tasks, and project owners.**:

- **Serves as a culture change agent by leveraging influential authority with employees and stakeholders to accelerate program deliverables that may cross geographic and/or functional boundaries. Models behavior expected of leaders in the TreeHouse Management Operating Structure.**:

- **Partners with site management and process owners to implement new processes or guidelines, determine improvements, identify and track savings, develop reports, and receive approval when required.**:

- **Assists with training and coaching others to build organizational self-sufficiency with continuous improvement methods and tools.**:
**About You**:
**You’ll fit right in if you have**:

- **Strong situational leadership skills to influence all levels of the organization within the plant location.**:

- **Capable of building strong relationships with Operations leaders in order to effect change.**:

- **High level of credibility and influence among hourly associates in site.**:

- **Self-starter to lead change and make independent and informed decisions.**:

- **Analytical, trouble-shooting and problem-solving skills to assess needs, understanding issues, and identify improvement opportunities.**:

- **Able to design, develop, and deploy improvement strategies that support TreeHouse, divisional, and site strategic objectives.**:

- **Must have strong verbal and written communication skills to represent site continuous improvement activities.**:

- **Minimum 4 years plant-based manufacturing experience, previous project management experience and continuous improvement skills training.**:**Your TreeHouse Foods Career is Just a Click Away**

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