Senior Lean Coach - Shelby Drive Facility - Memphis, TN

Nike - Memphis, TN

As our Senior Lean Coach, you’ll successfully execute / apply lean thinking, tools and techniques within cross‐functional business processes to build lean muscle, problem‐solving capability and to deliver results by:

• Supporting and developing Lean Leadership thinking with cross‐functional leaders, managers, Lean Coaches and kaizen event participants.
• Actively lead cross functional teams and provide individual contributions with more complex kaizen efforts to reduce defects, improve customer satisfaction, reduce cost, improve cycle time, eliminate, reduce/eliminate rework, etc. to achieve stability and create flow within business processes.
• Providing a standard framework for kaizen events owning the execution of that framework, and teaching others how to apply that framework and to then ensure that business teams are sustaining the gainsachieved during these events.
• Manage lean resources and cross‐functional teams to deliver business improvements on Nike’s key strategic enablers.
• Mentoring, teaching and developing Lean Coaches and kaizen teams on tools, concepts and problem solving methodologies. Provide technical expertise as needed.
• Capturing and communicating results. Work with finance and other members of the organization in assessing, tracking and reporting the financial benefit of multiple kaizen events.
• Improving and standardizing best practices of lean tools and concepts within and across the Nike Lean Network

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business major.
• 6 years of full‐time Lean experience with demonstrated expertise in advanced lean principles and hands‐on experience running kaizen events on multiple complex cross‐functional business processes.
• Advanced level knowledge of lean concepts, principles and tools
• Record of effectively engaging and influencing midlevel leadership and teams.
• Candidate must possess a personal portfolio of relevant and current improvements in operational and administrative settings achieved through the application of lean principles and tools.  
• Recent experience running multiple cross‐functional six sigma and/or kaizen events in a variety of areas to achieve stability and create flow within cross‐functional business processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with employees at all levels – from hourly associates to senior leadership.
• Proven ability to effectively lead highly cross‐functional teams in a matrix business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use financial measurements and key performance indicators to assess and manage cross‐functional business processes.

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Posted: 30+ days ago

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