Senior Director, Value Stream

We believe being healthy should not require tradeoffs. SCN Best Co is a leading innovator, developer and manufacturer of Vitamin, Mineral & Supplement (VMS), Over-the-Counter (OTC) and prebiotics/probiotics in enjoyable forms such as gummies, lozenges and chews. With over 50 years of excellence, our team leads the way in changing how consumers make healthier choices. With unique food science expertise and proprietary processes, we’ve pioneered many firsts.

Our passion to create new to the world products has guided and continues to be core to our mission of making health and wellness more enjoyable. Come join us and become a part of our winning formula!

The Senior Director, Value Stream has end to end responsibility for a specified grouping of product forms. The position’s focus is primarily on driving continuous improvement across all areas of the supply chain (i.e., operational productivity, customer service, safety, profit, etc.). The Senior Director, Value Stream develops manufacturing strategies to optimize results across the end-to-end product family supply chain. The position works closely with engineering, maintenance, continuous improvement, planning, quality, safety, accounting, and logistics to effectively plan, direct, and coordinate all activities of production to include safety, quality, production, and cost control.

The Senior Director, Value Stream ensures that the highest standards of safety are followed to protect our employees and that all procedures (SOPs) and practices (GMPs) are strictly followed to ensure product quality and consumer safety. The position also works with commercial and customer service to design and execute strategies and projects to commercialize new products while optimizing the margin structure on the existing portfolio.

• Drive continuous improvement across all areas of the product form that meaningfully improves operational and business outcomes.
• Lead operational aspects of respective value stream commercialization program with support from team while ensuring end to end supply chain and supporting functions are ready and capable of supporting commercial operations through launch and ramp-up.
• Define short- and long-term models for commercial operations to deliver margin improvement.
• Partner with sales and product development to build a margin accretive portfolio of new products for assigned forms.
• Lead value stream team to deliver daily, weekly, monthly expectations to maintain accurate accounting of operational and commercialization performance.
• Partner with functional leaders to support opportunities, impact analysis, priorities, and resources to achieve overall site and product form objectives.
• Develop and track operational, compliance, and other key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. Evaluate, develop, and implement continuous improvements and best practices for assigned value stream.
• Work with maintenance and engineering to troubleshoot process problems and identify solutions that reduce downtime in a cost-effective manner. Work to assure that department equipment and technology keep up with ever-changing customer needs while providing return on investment.
• Understand, document, develop, and improve standard work that supports consistent manufacturing performance. Hold all employees accountable for following standard work and meeting company core values.
• Develop and build a high performing, agile team.
• Conduct workforce planning exercises to determine organizational staffing needs while looking for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Actively participate in and contributes to technology transfer, start-ups, design, and implementation of process changes, typically working on cross-functional teams.
• Lead team to deliver on customer service commitments while optimizing production schedules for efficiency.
• Work with finance department to establish and maintain annual department budget to maximize plant profitability. Maintain adequate plant staffing and control labor and other overhead costs. Monitor product margins and actively seeks ways to drive additional profitability.
• Participate on a variety of strategy…