Regional Operations Excellence Lead

Kenvue; Lititz (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Benefits

Paid Holidays & Vacation

Learning & Development

Job summary

Kenvue is seeking a Regional Production Change Lead to drive the deployment of the Operational Excellence system across manufacturing sites in the Americas. You will own site diagnostics, transformation plans, capability building, and coaching of leaders to ensure sustainable delivery of business results.

This role reports to Regional Make Excellence Americas and requires leadership, Lean/Six Sigma expertise, and strong stakeholder management to standardize improvements region‑wide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 10–12 years of Supply Chain experience across Plan, Source, Make, and/or Deliver functions.
• Lean and/or Six‑sigma certification
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, financial performance drivers, and business improvement methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead change management efforts and develop leaders into effective change agents.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to drive results without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Leads Operational Excellence deployment activities at targeted sites, including site preparation, data gathering and analysis, diagnostics, development of implementation plans, and delivery of transformation initiatives.
• Build Operational Excellence capability within site teams through training, coaching, mentoring, and knowledge transfer activities.
• Coach and mentor site implementation leaders, change agents, and future deployment resources to develop sustainable organizational capability.
• Provide direct, hands‑on site support throughout implementation and transformation activities.
• Maintain ongoing engagement with deployed sites to ensure standardization and sustainability of improvements and achievement of targeted business results.
• Lead and execute Operational Excellence Health Checks and Site System Checks to verify adherence to standards and methodologies.
• Monitor site performance dashboards and intervene as needed through coaching, training, resource alignment, or escalation.
• Escalate implementation risks, issues, and capability gaps to the appropriate organizational levels.
• Ensure consistent deployment and integrity of Operational Excellence standards across all sites.
• Capture proven practices and benchmark opportunities and partner with region and global teams to integrate learnings into the broader system.
• Identify and recommend improvements to deployment methodologies based on implementation experience and business results.
• Build strong partnerships with site leadership teams, site Operational Excellence, regional Make and Quality leaders, Finance, Engineering, Maintenance, and global Operational Excellence leaders.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Communication

Facilitation

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Lean Six Sigma

PMP FPX (or equivalent)

Job description

Kenvue is seeking a Regional Production Change Lead to drive the deployment of the Operational Excellence system across manufacturing sites in the Americas. You will own site diagnostics, transformation plans, capability building, and coaching of leaders to ensure sustainable delivery of business results.

This role reports to Regional Make Excellence Americas and requires leadership, Lean/Six Sigma expertise, and strong stakeholder management to standardize improvements region‑wide.