Cushman & Wakefield

Continuous Improvement Manager

Cushman & Wakefield

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chicago • Illinois • Montana • United States

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Salary

💰 $110,500 - $130,000 per year

About the role

  • Leads and drives business transformation and change initiatives to create and sustain world-class, visually managed processes for instantaneous recognition of wastes.
  • Implements CI/Lean methods to drive improvement in alignment with strategic goals and objectives.
  • Facilitates and/or conducts continuous improvement training programs, Kaizen events, and other lean initiatives.
  • Assesses, coaches, and provides constructive feedback to teams to strengthen competencies.
  • Serves as a change facilitator, develops, and collaborates with business leaders and influences leadership in the transformation to and in support of a continuous improvement culture.
  • Develops and manages multiple processes, long and short-term, sustainable, improvement related visual action plans as well as assigned key projects.
  • Monitors existing and new processes for improvement opportunities in cost productivity through problem solving methodology and takes appropriate follow-up action.
  • Tracks, measures, and reports progress on improvements using standard, established KPI’s.
  • Assists in the preparation of budgets, schedules, and other financial reports regarding the impact of improvements, waste reduction, and achieving ROI, as indicated by lean accounting principles.
  • Organizes and facilitates the Americas CI Steering Committee.
  • Maintains professional and technical knowledge through benchmarking world-class improvement organizations and delivering improvement related training.
  • Hires, trains, develops, coaches, and provides team member guidance and supervision in the event of having direct report(s).

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 4-6 years of demonstrated, qualified lean experience in a leadership role
  • Knowledge and demonstrated understanding of a variety of lean tools such as: Process Flow Mapping, Value Stream Mapping, Process Problem Solving, Built In Quality, Just In Time, Kaizen/Continuous Improvement, and Lean ROI.
  • Lean certification from a recognized independent technical organization
  • Experience in working within a matrix environment reporting to Continuous Improvement organization and taking direction from Key Stakeholders
  • Knowledge and use of Improvement tools, data analysis, and project management tools
  • Must have strong ability to influence team members to shift to continuous improvement methods
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
  • Ability to lead and develop team members.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Health savings accounts
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Paid and unpaid time away from work

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Lean methodsContinuous improvementProcess Flow MappingValue Stream MappingProcess Problem SolvingBuilt In QualityJust In TimeKaizenLean ROIData analysis
Soft skills
LeadershipCoachingInterpersonal communicationOral communicationWritten communicationInfluencingTeam developmentConstructive feedbackOrganizational skillsFacilitation
Certifications
Lean certificationBachelor's Degree