Sr. Director Lean Excellence

Senior Director Lean Excellence

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The Senior Director Lean Excellence is an enterprise leader that combines enterprise Lean architecture with functional Lean leadership. This leader serves as the accountable leader for nVent's Lean strategy, governance, capability build, organization design, and career path across Integrated Supply Chain and related functions.

Beyond traditional Lean deployment, this leader will establish the operating cadence that connects strategy to execution, from enterprise objectives to frontline performance management. The role will ensure that every level of the organization has clear priorities, standard management routines, actionable key performance indicators, and problem-solving processes that drive measurable business results.

This is a highly influential enterprise leadership role focused on creating the Lean functional model, management system, leadership behaviors, performance visibility, and operating rigor necessary to accelerate growth, improve customer outcomes, expand margins, and generate cash. The successful candidate will operate as a strategic partner to the VP Operational Excellence, trusted advisor to the CSCO, and functional leader for the Lean organization.

They will be an executive coach to senior leaders, and enterprise-wide catalyst for performance transformation.

Lead the Lean Function and Operating Model

• Own the enterprise Lean functional strategy, governance model, standards, and deployment roadmap.
• Create a scalable Lean organization design that clarifies roles, responsibilities, decision rights, resource allocation, and operating cadence across enterprise, region, segment, site, and functional levels.
• Establish the Lean career path, role charters, success profiles, competency expectations, and progression criteria for Lean practitioners and leaders.
• Partner with HR, Talent Development, and leaders across ISC to build a sustainable Lean talent pipeline and succession approach.
• Provide functional leadership to Lean leaders through direct, matrixed, and community-of-practice mechanisms.
• Serve as enterprise owner for Lean performance measurement and ISC performance management architecture in partnership with the VP Operational Excellence.
• Lead deployment of the ISC and OpEx strategy through a focused Lean management system.

Design and Deploy the ISC Management Operating System

• Own the design, deployment, and maturation of the enterprise supply chain management operating system.
• Establish the ISC operating system that links strategy, execution, problem solving, and accountability.
• Build tiered management systems that create visibility and accountability at the point of impact.
• Develop standard escalation processes for operational abnormalities.

Build Enterprise Lean Capability

• Develop Lean leadership capability throughout the supply chain and functional organizations.
• Create and govern Lean training, coaching, certification, and application standards in partnership with HR and Talent Development.
• Coach senior leaders, Lean leaders, and functional partners on Lean behaviors, problem solving, Gemba leadership, Leader Standard Work, and daily management.
• Build communities of practice and knowledge-sharing mechanisms to scale standard processes across sites and functions.
• Ensure capability-building is tied to measurable maturity, value realization, and talent outcomes.

Accelerate Business Performance Through Lean Transformation

• Use Lean principles as the foundation for improving flow, responsiveness, productivity, quality, safety, customer delivery, inventory, and cash.
• Identify systemic barriers to performance.
• Lead enterprise-level value stream assessments.
• Coach teams to solve root causes rather than symptoms.
• Support critical business performance turnarounds.
• Ensure Lean principles are embedded into planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, quality, engineering, EHS, digital, and support…