Salary Range: 140000 to 275000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Who You Are:

• 10 plus years of combined professional industry and consulting experience, with a minimum of 4 years specializing in manufacturing and/or distribution functions
• Previous advisory experience from a top-tier strategy firm, leading specialist, niche advisory firm, or Big-4 consultancy preferred
• Experience working for or with private equity sponsors and portfolio companies
• Deep functional expertise in one of more of the following areas:
• o    Supply Chain Operations
• o    Manufacturing Operations, SI&OP (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning)
• o    Footprint optimization, plant consolidation and product line transfer
• o    Manufacturing strategy, CapEx planning, Manufacturing 4.0/IIoT
• o    Lean, Six Sigma, TOC and Value Engineering
• Demonstrated track record working with C-suite executives as well as private equity deal and operating partners
• Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis
• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally focused and externally focused change/communications strategy
• Previous strategy and change management experience
• Ability and desire to travel as required based on client location

What You’ll Do:

• We are seeking individuals that can lead and deliver large, complex client engagements, working closely with executive leadership to identify, design, and implement creative business solutions.  In this role, Directors will:
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of a company’s manufacturing and distribution operations-- organization design, production capacity, efficiency, quality, planning, warehousing and team capability.
• Evaluate the maintainability and operability of production facilities.
• Review current and historical data to understand efficiency & capacity, including equipment conditions, maintenance logs, spare parts and detailed production numbers.
• Provide shop floor insights by talking with employees and customers and reviewing all available data.
• Identify potential cost improvement opportunities through lean improvements, outsourcing or consolidation of facilities.
• Develop transformation plans to drive proposed changes and identify key risks and mitigation strategies.
• Execute and oversee approved transformation plans, in alignment with executive leadership.
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.