Principal Operational Excellence Consultant

Through passion and deep industry expertise, MCA Connect helps manufacturers succeed by unlocking innovation with actionable business insights. Our strategic solutions, innovation, and industry intelligence help manufacturers gain visibility, improve profitability, and achieve a competitive edge.

Established in 2002, MCA Connect has grown into one of the largest US-based solution partners in Microsoft Business Applications and Azure Data & AI / Digital & App Innovation. Our Microsoft Specialties include Finance and Supply Chain, Analytics on Azure, Data Warehouse Migration, and Power Platform. We’re also a fifteen-time Microsoft Partner of the Year and three-time Inc. Best Workplaces award winner.

Open to Full-time w2 Employee and C2C contract employment arrangements

Principal Operational Excellence Consultant

Virtual, home based office with travel (estimated 80%)

(The immediate project for this position is estimated to be 6 months long, with travel to Seattle, WA)

The Principal Operational Excellence Consultant will transform client competitiveness, create new sources of economic value, drive revenue growth, increase productivity, and implement substantive change. This will be accomplished by utilizing continuous improvement, Lean and Six Sigma tool sets to analyze clients’ business strategies, assets, processes and existing technologies. As a Principal Operational Excellence Consultant, you will also engage in the selling of the value of Operational Excellence to both internal and external customers.

Thus, identifying opportunities to improve processes and leverage technology to operationalize business strategy, and developing strategic roadmaps that support business and operational transformation initiatives.

• Involved in the MCA sales cycle by preparing sales presentations, calculating change management needs of clients and writing statements of work for contracting MCA operational excellence resources time and deliverables.
• Facilitate and lead consultative services to clients regarding their preparedness for enterprise transformation utilizing tools and techniques designed to drive and support industry best practice
• Assess and document a client’s current culture, awareness, and adoption of best practice manufacturing and operational excellence techniques and integration with supporting technologies
• Design and lead executive sessions with clients to define their cross functional strategic plans
• Conduct and lead team sessions to define current and future state processes and value streams
• Develop quantitative modeling of current business performance and future state design to support client growth and profit objectives.
• Deliver presentation to senior executives regarding the ROI and value creation of engagements
• Prepare strategy and high-level project plans for migration from current state to proposed design.
• Identify and resolve issues pertinent to the success of projects, including change management, process change implementation, data flow, application implementation, and issue escalation and resolution.
• Develop and present deliverables to senior executives and all level with an organization
• Facilitate development of the KPI measurements of success
• Building a framework for managing changes in client’s organization
• End state defined: “what does success look like”
• Create operational excellence training materials and programs to train and mentor other MCA Connect team members

• Executive leadership skills to manage and develop change management staff
• Excellent presentation and sales skills with ability to influence all levels of organizational structure
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required
• Minimum of 15 years…