Vice President, VES, PQI

Job Description:

• Partner with the Segment Leader to shape leadership meeting agendas and business reviews around consequential priorities
• Facilitate annual business planning and strategy enablement
• Lead Policy Deployment, connecting long-term strategy with breakthrough priorities and actionable plans
• Identify performance gaps and execution barriers and apply VES approaches to address root causes
• Support acquisition integration through VES deployment and capability development
• Advance growth, innovation, and operational performance through targeted improvement initiatives
• Strengthen daily management, standard work, and structured problem-solving practices
• Use business, operational, and Policy Deployment reviews to surface gaps and assess progress
• Guide high-impact kaizen activity and strategic growth initiatives, including Growth Rooms and Obeya
• Identify and scale successful practices across operating companies
• Coach and advise senior leaders on VES and sustainable change
• Define and execute the VES capability and certification roadmap
• Lead and develop the VES organization and mentor operating company VES leaders
• Build succession pipelines and an active VES leadership community
• Deploy certified practitioners and trainers to deliver business impact
• Manage the VES function's budget and talent priorities

Requirements:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience leading and applying continuous improvement principles across growth, innovation, and lean, with a demonstrated record of sustained business results
• Senior leadership experience in a multinational organization, gained as an enterprise business system leader or operating company executive with substantial responsibility for continuous improvement and business performance
• Deep practitioner expertise in lean/continuous improvement principles or a comparable enterprise business system, including daily management, standard work, structured problem-solving, and kaizen
• Experience leading Policy Deployment workshops, executive or President-level kaizens, and certified practitioner development roadmaps tied to strategic business priorities
• Experience working directly with teams at Gemba to strengthen problem-solving, build capability, and sustain improvements through hands-on learning
• Significant hands-on practitioner experience in new product development and applying continuous improvement methods to innovation processes
• Proven record of building and developing teams, coaching senior leaders, and strengthening organizational capability across functions and geographies
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Marketing, or Operations required
• Master's degree in a related field or MBA preferred

Benefits:

• Incentive Pay eligibility
• Paid time off
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)