Program Lead, Solutions

Program Lead, Solutions

Position Summary The Program Lead drives the plant’s margin improvement, operational excellence, and strategic initiatives agenda. This role translates opportunities into measurable business results by leading cross-functional execution, ensuring financial discipline, and sustaining improvements across cost, productivity, service, quality, and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Portfolio Leadership

• Own and govern the annual and multi-year margin improvement portfolio.

• Build and maintain a strong pipeline of margin improvement and productivity opportunities.

• Drive initiatives from concept to execution, benefit realization, and sustainment.

• Governance and Execution

• Set clear governance, cadence, ownership, milestones, risks, and escalation paths.

• Provide concise leadership updates on progress, savings, risks, and decisions required.

• Financial Impact

• Develop business cases and investment proposals for strategic initiatives and margin improvement projects

• Partner with Finance to validate savings, ROI, payback, and benefit realization.

• Ensure benefits are measurable, auditable, and sustained.

• Cross-Functional Leadership and Change Enablement

• Align stakeholders, remove barriers, and accelerate decisions across functions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business, or related field; advanced degree or Lean Six Sigma certification and/or PMP certification preferred.

• 8+ years of manufacturing, operations, or supply chain experience.

• 5+ years leading cross-functional programs

• Proven track record delivering material productivity, cost, and operational performance improvements.

• Core Competencies

• Critical Capabilities

• Margin improvement and productivity program leadership

• Operational excellence, Lean, structured problem solving, and change execution

• Business case development, ROI analysis, and savings validation

• Ideal Candidate Profile

• The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking, financial discipline, operational excellence expertise, and strong cross-functional leadership to deliver measurable business impact.

• Executive Summary

• This role provides single-point leadership for the plant’s margin improvement, operational excellence, and strategic initiative portfolio. Success is measured by delivered savings, strong pipeline coverage, disciplined execution, and sustained operational performance improvement.

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