This position will have the responsibility for supporting and leading business process initiatives and Strategies across Lincoln Electric Asia Pacific business, ensuring alignment of those strategies with the global enterprise. Leading teams focused on; optimizing product portfolios, improving manufacturing processes, and improving the customer experience. This role will partner with leadership to execute transformation initiatives and drive strategic growth across the region through market analysis and growth strategy development.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide leadership with daily guidance for key strategic initiatives around product portfolio optimization, manufacturing excellence, & the customer experience
- Lead the Strategic Deployment (X Matrix) process across the APAC region
- Responsible for commercial excellence by standardizing sales processes & tools across the region
- Modeling of profitability scenarios related to key growth targets &/or initiatives
- Lead voice of customer initiatives & drive improvement plans derived from VOC
- Coordinate with enterprise supply chain teams, IT teams, commercial & product management to ensure consistent application of processes and initiatives
- Analyze and identify business process improvement opportunities across the organization & provide recommendations for solutions and level of prioritization
- Provide KPI summaries to the leadership team of ongoing strategies and initiatives & documentation of process changes
- Ensure teamwork across the organization is aligning with global priorities and standardization
- Attend and contribute to team project meetings to ensure alignment with overall strategy, identify roadblocks and challenges, and provide key summaries to management teams
- Support communication efforts to the organization around key initiatives
- Engage with manufacturing sites and leadership on high priority projects/initiatives
- Serve as supporting SME on critical enterprise themes and processes
Basis Requirement
- Bachelor's degree in business management, supply chain, engineering, project management or a related field.
- At least two years experience in commercial (sales &/or customer service) or operational activities
- Solid project management skills
- Exceptional leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Superb recordkeeping, time management, and organizational skills.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in basic computer skills: Word/Excel/PowerPoint
- Functional SAP experience to execute reporting and data analysis
