Principal Operational Excellence Consultant

MCA Connect

United States3w ago

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Key details

Salary
$160K–$195K/yr
Location
United States
Work style
Remote
Level
Lead / Staff+
Job type
Full-time
Experience
15–18 yrs
Function
Operations & Strategy
Focus area
other
Posted
3w ago

Skills

azurechange managementdata warehousingerpleanlean manufacturingpower platformsales presentationssix sigma

About the role

Through passion and deep industry expertise, MCA Connect helps manufacturers succeed by unlocking innovation with actionable business insights. Our strategic solutions, innovation, and industry intelligence help manufacturers gain visibility, improve profitability, and achieve a competitive edge.
Established in 2002, MCA Connect has grown into one of the largest US-based solution partners in Microsoft Business Applications and Azure Data & AI / Digital & App Innovation. Our Microsoft Specialties include Finance and Supply Chain, Analytics on Azure, Data Warehouse Migration, and Power Platform. We’re also a fifteen-time Microsoft Partner of the Year and three-time Inc. Best Workplaces award winner.


Open to Full-time w2 Employee and C2C contract employment arrangements

Title: Principal Operational Excellence Consultant

Location: Virtual, home based office with travel (estimated to be up to 80%)

Description:

The Principal Operational Excellence Consultant will transform client competitiveness, create new sources of economic value, drive revenue growth, increase productivity, and implement substantive change. This will be accomplished by utilizing continuous improvement, Lean and Six Sigma tool sets to analyze clients’ business strategies, assets, processes and existing technologies. As a Principal Operational Excellence Consultant, you will also engage in the selling of the value of Operational Excellence to both internal and external customers. Thus, identifying opportunities to improve processes and leverage technology to operationalize business strategy, and developing strategic roadmaps that support business and operational transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

    • Involved in the MCA sales cycle by preparing sales presentations, calculating change management needs of clients and writing statements of work for contracting MCA operational excellence resources time and deliverables.

    • Facilitate and lead consultative services to clients regarding their preparedness for enterprise transformation utilizing tools and techniques designed to drive and support industry best practice

    • Assess and document a client’s current culture, awareness, and adoption of best practice manufacturing and operational excellence techniques and integration with supporting technologies

    • Design and lead executive sessions with clients to define their cross functional strategic plans

    • Conduct and lead team sessions to define current and future state processes and value streams

    • Develop quantitative modeling of current business performance and future state design to support client growth and profit objectives.

    • Deliver presentation to senior executives regarding the ROI and value creation of engagements

    • Prepare strategy and high-level project plans for migration from current state to proposed design.

    • Identify and resolve issues pertinent to the success of projects, including change management, process change implementation, data flow, application implementation, and issue escalation and resolution.

    • Develop and present deliverables to senior executives and all level with an organization

    • Facilitate development of the KPI measurements of success

    • Building a framework for managing changes in client’s organization

    • End state defined: “what does success look like”

    • Create operational excellence training materials and programs to train and mentor other MCA Connect team members

Qualifications

    • Executive leadership skills to manage and develop change management staff

    • Excellent presentation and sales skills with ability to influence all levels of organizational structure

    • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required

    • Minimum of 15 years of experience with an understanding of enterprise solutions

    • Experience with strategic business transformation or manufacturing with a minimum of 8 years in two of the following:

    • Industry experience in lean manufacturing

    • Strategic business transformation experience utilizing Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement & Six Sigma tools (i.e. SIPOC, Swim Lane Diagrams, etc.)

    • Implementation of industry best practices to support business transformation

    • Experience implementing continuous improvement tools & concepts

    • Experience with ERP with a minimum of the following:

    • ERP general consulting or in production for a minimum of 10 years

    • ERP Master Planning consulting or in production for a minimum of 5 years

    • ERP lean manufacturing consulting or in production for a minimum of 5 years

    • Design of unique solutions for high mix manufacturing challenges

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