Executive Director - Global Filtration Operations

Executive Director - Global Filtration Operations

Description

We are looking for a talented, dynamic Executive Director - Global Filtration Operations to join our team specializing in operational excellence for our Cummins Filtration Business Segment headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The role is designated offsite , allowing you to work from your home office and requires an average of 25% overall travel.

This role will have significant short- and long-term strategic impact on the enterprise, as it serves as:

• Key decision maker for the short- and long-term management of Capacity and Capital and the strategic thinking behind the long-term manufacturing plans for our business
• Executive leader for 6 manufacturing plants in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia as well as dotted line support to 2 other locations in Asia and multiple JV plants for manufacturing and manufacturing engineering expertise
• Leader of global operational excellence, continuous improvement, and safety, quality, delivery, and cost at our plants.
• Global leader of facilities/real estate and security across all plants, warehouses, technical centers, and offices

In this role, the Executive Director will make an impact in the following ways:

• While reporting to the Executive Director Global Supply Chain, you will lead and deliver multiple key initiatives across the enterprise
• Provides overall leadership, management, and strategic direction of global operations
• Partners with business executives to identify short and long-term program plans; develops and maintains strong relationships across the organization
• Drives the establishment of objectives, plans, standards, risk identification, and policies ensuring successful implementation of all phases of Operations management for a major business enterprise.
• Directs the assessment of Plant Manager capabilities
• Formulates annual operational and financial budgets as they relate to Operations objectives and sets short and long term KPI's for the plants.
• Develops, leads, and motivates staff; sets goals in training and development, performance, and career planning

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

Global Perspective: taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens, and influencing multiple regions

Strategic Mindset : seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies

Issue Management: maintains a cross-functional, cross-organizational project issues list, with appropriate prioritization based on the issue's level of importance. Drives appropriate and timely resolution and approval of changes. Trains and/or mentors others in Change and Issue Management

Drives vision and purpose: painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action

Action oriented: taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm

Business insight: applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals

Organizational savvy: maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics

Manages ambiguity: operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear

Balances stakeholders: anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders

Cultivates innovation: creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful

Manages complexity: making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems

Drives engagement: creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives

Stakeholder Management and Communication: identifies, engages and manages stakeholders at many levels of the company and across many functions and across boundaries (geography/cultures/plants/suppliers) on high impact, cross-functional or multi-year initiatives on a project, program or groups of projects and programs

Situational adaptability: adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations

Education

• College, university, or equivalent bachelor's degree in cybersecurity operations, required
• Deep technical knowledge of operational excellence, required
• 8-10 years cross business unit experience in a highly complex, matrix organization, required

Experience

• Significant managerial and budgetary experience required
• Strong experience leading strategic and change efforts
• Strong experience working across multiple functional areas required; must have a command of operational excellence and ability to train and/or mentor this skill
• Broad understanding of key functional processes and practices; demonstrated experience sponsoring large complex projects and process redesign
• Excellent communicator with prior plant management experience in a high volume environment; broad diverse experiences in other parts of the supply chain is highly preferred
• A strategic leader who will set the aims for the future and deliver results towards business and functional goals; does not hesitate to challenge the status quo
• People coach and developer, at the next level and with future leaders
• Self-starter with strong initiative to do the right thing and to do things right; builder of strong teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• Must be an expert in building business case for investments as well as driving consensus across the organization, a strong collaborator across the function and business
• Perhaps most importantly, thought leadership experience in high volume low-cost automation and evolving technologies is required

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary rate commensurate with experience, range: $225,000-$275,000. Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. Additional benefits vary between locations and include options such as our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Cash Balance Pension Plan, Medical/Dental/Life Insurance, Health Savings Account, Domestic Partners Coverage, and a full complement of personal and professional benefits.

Cummins and E-verify

At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates right to work using E-Verify. Cummins will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Job MANUFACTURING

Primary Location United States-Tennessee-Nashville-US, TN, Nashville, Filtration Headquarters

Job Type Experienced - Exempt / Office

Recruitment Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Job Posting Aug 31, 2022, 8:21:34 AM

Unposting Date Ongoing

Organization Cummins Filtration

Req ID: 2200077I