Sr. Continuous Improvement Specialist

3 weeks ago

Boise, Idaho, United States CHS Inc. Full time

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

Summary

CHS, Inc has an exciting opportunity on our Agriculture Supply Chain team. The Continuous Improvement Specialist will partner with leaders across our Grain and Agronomy division to enhance organization performance and drive best in class performance. This role will lead the rollout of continuous improvement efforts to improve business process, provide greater transparency into operations and create efficiencies through innovative solutions with a focus on standardization, process optimization and improved governance. This role will also lead efforts to find cross functional opportunities and synergistic savings across Grains and Agronomy locations. This role can be located in Inver Grove Heights, MN or remote with expected travel 30-50% of the time.

Responsibilities

Organizational and Leadership Development

  • Optimize enterprise performance by partnering with business leaders across the company to define direction and implement changes to become best in class performance.
  • Lead efforts to find cross-functional opportunities and synergistic savings across enterprise functions / divisions.
  • Solve unique problems that have a broad impact on the enterprise.
  • Identify strategies for organizational improvement and help implement.
  • Anticipate and articulate emerging organizational needs within the division.
  • Drive process improvement initiatives across the division, anticipating and ensuring development and maintenance of robust, scalable shared service capabilities (processes, systems, policies/procedures, organization and compliance) to support the company's growth.
  • Align the organization structure and processes as well as employee skills and responsibilities to stakeholder needs.

Project Management

  • Lead projects with notable risk and complexity; develop the strategy for project execution.
  • Build relationships at all levels of the organization to facilitate collaboration across business departments and functions to deliver desired program outcomes.
  • Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management plans including leadership alignment and sponsorship engagement, communication and stakeholder management, role mapping and training deployment.
  • Conduct stakeholder analysis, organizational and business readiness assessments, evaluate and present findings with actions plan in a logical and easy-to-understand format.
  • Be an active and visible coach and mentor to project sponsors and leadership and have the ability to influence without authority.
  • Identify resistance and performance gaps, and work to develop and implement corrective actions.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

  • High School diploma or GED
  • 7+ years of experience in Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence, Program Management or related experience.

Additional Qualifications

  • Six Sigma or Lean certification.
  • Bachelor's or advanced degree preferred in business, engineering, finance or related field.
  • Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritize projects and deliverables, and interact effectively with cross-functional teams Self-motivated, innovative, and ability to initiate and lead change.
  • Creative and change-oriented continuous improvement process skills.
  • Experience collaborating and driving consensus with other stakeholders to achieve tasks (IT, Finance, Business Units, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of process and process design, including leveraging technology to achieve.
  • Experience working in the agriculture industry.
  • Multi-lingual is desirable, but not required.
  • Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care savings accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.


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