Business Performance Associate Director

Job Description: • Serve as the Scrap and Manufacturing Process Waste Reduction Network Program Lead, including definition of measurement systems, visibility, and reporting for material, process, and performance-related waste. • Act as Operations Productivity Lead, managing business productivity process implementation and ongoing evolution across the network. • Partner with Site FP&A teams to align definitions, standardize financial measures, and ensure consistent application of productivity, scrap, labor, and cost-of-sales metrics across global manufacturing sites. • Define and drive labor efficiency and workforce utilization optimization metrics, including financial impact assessment and prioritization insights to support workforce strategy decisions. • Lead alignment of financial and operational performance metrics across SAP S/4, MES, and emerging AI-driven analytics solutions, in partnership with Operations Finance and AI & Data teams. • Drive automation of next-generation manufacturing performance metrics to enable scalable, timely, and decision-ready insights. • Ensure consistency and integrity of financial inputs supporting manufacturing execution, productivity, and cost-of-sales initiatives across the global manufacturing network. • Establish performance measurement systems that translate business performance into financial insights, enabling fact-based decision-making. • Drive capacity optimization analyses and develop cost attribution models that translate manufacturing execution and capacity decisions into clear financial impact to support network-level decision-making. • Lead the Bend the Cost Curve initiative for Manufacturing, defining initiatives and tracking value realization across the network. • Deliver financial value by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, with emphasis on scrap and waste reduction, productivity optimization, and cost-of-sales improvement. Requirements: • Doctorate degree and 3 years of manufacturing or operations experience • Master’s degree and 5 years of manufacturing or operations experience • Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of manufacturing or operations experience • Associate’s degree and 12 years of manufacturing or operations experience • High school diploma / GED and 14 years of manufacturing or operations experience • Proven ability to partner cross-functionally to identify and enable technology-driven cost-of-sales improvement opportunities in manufacturing. • Experience with capital finance rules and policy. • Experience translating business performance into clear financial insights, tracking, and forecasts. • Demonstrated ability to lead network-wide, cross-functional initiatives that are both strategic and technical (e.g., program leadership, value tracking). • Experience integrating financial and operational data across ERP (SAP S/4), MES, and advanced analytics platforms. • Experience driving automation and standardization of performance metrics in a manufacturing or operations environment. Benefits: • A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions • group medical, dental and vision coverage • life and disability insurance • flexible spending accounts • A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan • Stock-based long-term incentives • Award-winning time-off plans • Flexible work models where possible. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job