Sr. Manufacturing Performance Strategist

Senior Manufacturing Performance Strategist

Join us at Panasonic Energy as we expand to De Soto, Kansas, where we're building the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career while contributing to the future of electric vehicles. As part of our team, you'll help push the limits of battery technology, enhancing performance and efficiency in sustainable transportation. Our state-of-the-art facility, just outside the Kansas City Metro, will be a hub for innovation in green energy solutions.

If you're passionate about sustainability and eager to contribute to the electric vehicle revolution, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team. Join us and make a meaningful impact on the future of energy and transportation.

The Senior Manufacturing Performance Strategist serves as a strategic partner to Manufacturing Operations and leadership teams by analyzing manufacturing and business performance data to drive operational excellence, improve decision-making, and support strategic initiatives across lithium-ion battery manufacturing operations while influencing operational strategy, business performance, and manufacturing transformation efforts. This role develops and maintains reporting, dashboards, analytics tools, and performance metrics that provide actionable insights related to safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

The Senior Manufacturing Performance Strategist leverages data from manufacturing systems, MES, ERP, quality, maintenance, and operational databases to identify trends, optimize manufacturing performance, support operational planning, and enable data-driven business decisions related to capacity expansion, automation, digital transformation, and continuous improvement.

Essential duties include:

• Functional Operations:
  Analyzes production performance across all manufacturing processes, including Electrode Manufacturing, Cell Assembly, Formation, Aging, Packaging, and Material Handling Operations
• Monitors throughput, OEE, yield, downtime, scrap, labor productivity, capacity utilization, inventory performance, customer delivery metrics, and cost-per-unit trends
• Develops, maintains, and continuously improves operational reporting, dashboards, KPI scorecards, visualizations, and executive-level performance reports that support leadership decision-making, business reviews, audits, and customer requirements
• Extracts, validates, analyzes, and governs data from MES, ERP, Quality, Maintenance, and other manufacturing systems to ensure accuracy, consistency, and standardized reporting practices
• Supports annual operating plans, production forecasting, capacity planning, workforce planning, and capital investment analysis activities
• Performance Optimization & Continuous Improvement:
  Identifies performance gaps, operational trends, manufacturing constraints, and business opportunities, providing strategic analytical recommendations to improve operational performance
• Conducts root cause analysis related to production losses, quality issues, process variability, and operational inefficiencies
• Develops forecasting tools, predictive models, and analytical solutions that support operational planning, decision-making, and evaluation of operational and financial impacts
• Supports Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and operational excellence initiatives through performance measurement and reporting
• Leads large-scale analytics, reporting automation, and performance-improvement initiatives by establishing priorities, defining analytical strategies, coordinating cross-functional execution, and tracking business outcomes
• Champions Industry 4.0, Smart Factory, digital manufacturing, automation, and operational transformation initiatives through the development and implementation of innovative analytical solutions and advanced performance measurement strategies
• Training & Team Support:
  Serves as the primary subject matter expert for manufacturing analytics, reporting, and performance measurement, providing strategic guidance to manufacturing leadership and cross-functional teams on KPI strategy, reporting methodologies, and analytical best practices
• Exercises independent judgment in determining analytical approaches, prioritizing business needs, and developing innovative solutions to support manufacturing performance and business objectives
• Provides guidance, training, and consultation to stakeholders on KPI management, reporting requirements, data interpretation, and analytics tools to support data-driven decision-making
• Provides technical mentorship and promotes data literacy, analytical best practices, and a culture of data-driven decision-making throughout the organization
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication:
  Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders across Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Finance, HR, IT, and Digital Manufacturing to address operational challenges and achieve business objectives
• Presents findings,…