Senior Enterprise Lean Lead

As a team member in the Finance and Internal Audit department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey!

Location: This position can be filled as a Hybrid or Remote role. The ideal candidate will be located in Central Ohio, but open to anywhere in the USA.

Internal Compensation Grade: H4

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Job Description Summary
Do you possess a deep understanding of Lean practices, as well as the creativity and resourcefulness to apply that knowledge to help solve complex challenges? If you like working in a collaborative, team-based environment where we work to make positive, lasting improvements for associates, our organization and our customers, we want to hear from you!

As a Senior Enterprise Lean Lead, you'll be a top level contributor, maturing and deploying Lean practices across the enterprise. Your primary responsibility will be to design and execute enterprise systems to support Lean deployment and/or maturity. This may include direct leadership and business case management for given Lean deployments or assessments, and/or execution of maturity systems including training, assessment, performance management and other techniques. The role will interact with senior executive leadership and be looked upon as trusted partner on projects.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributes significantly to the ongoing development and refinement of the enterprise Lean operating model. Designs and develops models, practices and procedures to employ across the enterprise. Responsible for consistency and continuity of Lean practices across the enterprise.
• Provides expert consultation and training to business partners, executives and other sponsors, less experienced team members and associates at all levels on the use of Lean techniques, tools and methods. Prepares education materials and presentations to increase awareness and effectiveness and market BTO Lean practices across the organization.
• Plans and implements Lean deployment for assigned business areas, including business case development, business partner resource strategy, objective setting, project plan, sustainability strategy and day-to-day management of the deployment.
• Directs, when needed, day-to-day activities of assigned Lean deployment working team, including dedicated business partners, team members and direct management of third-party contract partners
• Designs and may execute systems to facilitate the deployment and maturity of a Lean operating model to enable continuous improvement, realizing and sustaining multi-faceted benefits.
• Acts as the highest level contributor to analysis, problem solving and execution of complex organizational problems as prioritized in the deployment and maturity of the enterprise Lean operating model.
• Manages collaborative relationships with vendors, partners and suppliers. May require integration of process improvements into supplier's products in order to support overall goals.
• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to the Associate Vice President; May have opportunity to manage a team of professionals or lead project or virtual teams.

Typical Skills and Experience:

Education: Undergraduate degree in engineering or business; graduate degree in related areas preferred.

License/Certification/Designation: Master Black Belt/Lean Sensei strongly preferred. Product-related technical insurance course work (CPCU, CPU, LOMA) preferred.

Experience: Typically, eight or more years of relevant experience in Lean and/or continuous improvement leadership. Ability to demonstrate significant experience leading multiple enterprise scope projects to successful completion

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Maintains and comprehends business/systems process operations or redesign techniques, methods and tools. Maintains current understanding of technological, societal and environmental trends to support process design and operations to improve performance and financial services industry, focusing on the Nationwide enterprise and its key competitors.

Ability to understand the business needs and meet them there to deliver results. Ability to synthesize trends and opportunities across Nationwide and propose innovative ways for the BTO to add value sponsor/partner management - independently addresses challenges while strengthening the working relationship. Viewed by executive leaders as a trusted leader with vision. Challenges their thinking and moves them to try new approaches and/or change behavior. Proactively coaches for development and identifies potential talent. Projects competence and confidence at all levels of the organization, in meetings, presentations or conversations, even when confronted with unplanned challenges, questions or opportunities

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Staffing Exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager's leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not eligible)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment; extended and/or non-standard work hours as needed; some travel possible, based on location of associate.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Working Conditions: Normal office environment; extended and/or non standard work hours as needed; up to 40% travel.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental, paid time off plus nine paid holidays, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

For NY residents please review the following state law information: Notice of Employee Rights, Protections, and Obligations LS740 (ny.gov) https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2022/02/ls740_1.pdf

Nationwide utilizes a geographic-specific salary structure. For the salary range in Colorado, email [email protected].