Parts Value Stream Leader

2 months ago

Lafayette, United States Wabash Full time

Position Description:

The enterprise value stream leader is accountable for all aspects of the defined value stream. This includes responsibility for increasing customer value while eliminating waste; and for ensuring that the value stream consistently meets or exceeds customer needs. Activities often span across several independent organizations and functions.

This position is a remote role with 25%-30% travel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Lead and mobilize people: Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to drive change and achieve desired outcomes within the value stream. This includes partnering with suppliers, customers, and other teams within the Wabash and Wabash Parts organizations as needed. Most importantly, lead alignment efforts between Wabash and the Managing Director of Wabash Parts to assure a healthy and productive effort that drives parts revenue growth. Leading through influence is key in this organization.
  • Continuous Improvement: Provide support for all activities related to Continuous Improvement, enhancing knowledge of tools, techniques, and principles within the Wabash Management System (WMS) and other Enterprise Lean and Continuous Improvement methodologies across the Value Stream. Use these tools to create customer centric processes that strive to eliminate customer friction and improve employee and customer satisfaction.
  • Demand planning: Take ownership of the demand plan for the defined value stream, ensuring accurate forecasting and efficient inventory management.
  • Pricing strategy: Collaborate with the sales, product management, legal and the pricing council to establish pricing strategy by product, by customer, and by channel.
  • Change management: Support change management efforts between Wabash internal teams and external stakeholders, ensuring pace, discipline, and execution of material changes to the business, including non-organic efforts such as joint ventures, acquisitions, and partnerships.
  • Distribution strategies: Develop parts distribution strategies that optimize parts flow and support enterprise strategic growth objectives. Build out a Preferred Partner Network (PPN) that efficiently augments the Wabash dealer network in agreed to white space.
  • Commercial roles and guidelines: Create clear commercial roles and customer guidelines between Wabash Parts and the Wabash Commercial teams to ensure alignment and efficient operations.
  • Sales capabilities: Liaise with sales, our ecosystem, and our external dealers/partners to enhance sales capabilities across existing and additional product lines quickly and effectively.
  • Growth plans: Lead and support growth plans in conjunction with Wabash Parts, Wabash, its dealers, and the Wabash Marketplace, aligning efforts across the entire ecosystem. Responsible for delivering quarterly and annual performance. Heavily support and coordinate M+A activity within the parts segment.
  • E-Commerce capabilities: Assist in the development of improved E-Commerce capabilities that improve parts market penetration in all key channels and segments. This role will play a key role in the prioritization of E-Commerce improvement initiatives through the Agile Product Team.
  • Ecosystem growth: Look for new ways to grow recurring revenue and support business development and business plans that qualify opportunities.

Knowledge, Skills, Attributes:

  • Ability to lead and influence without direct authority; motivate and inspire those around them to execute to the needs of the value stream.
  • Ability to evaluate and view the entire value stream from a broad perspective.
  • Ability to understand and diagnose key system constraints and be able to quickly identify critical process issues within the system.
  • Strong foundational knowledge of lean system principles and lean thinking, with a willingness to partner with others to build lean expertise.
  • Must demonstrate ability to create value and capture value created across the entire system.
  • Demonstrate skills in organizational change management, and overall change management principles.
  • Demonstrate bias for utilizing data-based decision making processes. Must quickly and effectively be able to identify, utilize, and analyze data.
  • Demonstrate a continuous improvement mindset and openness to new ideas and different perspectives to identify the optimal path forward.
  • Ability to develop, implement, and actively manage a value stream plan.
  • Demonstrate a customer centric focus and mindset of continually re-working the overall system to capture customer value.
  • Effectively communicate across all levels of the organization, from the factory floor to senior level executives and the CEO.
  • Act as a role model for demonstrating Wabash's Leadership Principles and Values as well as overall leadership ability and business acumen.
  • Communicate effectively, with transparency and candor at each level of the value stream enabling optimal information flow.
  • Maintain a holistic view of the organization and understand where their value stream fits. Not sacrificing one area for the sake of optimizing another, but to optimize for the whole instead.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in business, supply chain, engineering, operations management, or related field required. Master’s in business administration preferred.

Leadership Attributes:

At Wabash, we pride ourselves on being empowering, and there are some things we feel very strongly about:

  • Embrace Diversity and Inclusion -- Solicit and respect the input of others, celebrate differences, and strive for transparency and inclusiveness
  • Seek to Listen -- Actively listen to reach the best solution and make the strongest decisions
  • Always Learn -- Strive to improve; do not quit or settle for the status quo
  • Be Authentic -- Demonstrate honesty, incredible energy, and grit in everything you do
  • Win Together -- Collaborate, seek alignment, and excel at cross-group communication to success as one team and One Wabash

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Affirmative Action/EEO Statement:

Wabash is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for its associates and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or other protected class or activity under federal, state, or local law. All employment decisions must be based on neutral, legitimate criteria. All employment policies and rules shall be applied equally to similarly situated associates.

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