Garrett Excellence Model (GEM) is a result-oriented operating system which sustainably drives top performance and continuous improvement across the business in full alignment with our strategic priorities.
It is an end-to-end business excellence philosophy which brings consistency in how we operate and strengthen our performance culture.
The position is focused on 3 main areas of activities, respectively:
The purpose of the job is:
- To deploy Garrett Excellence Model (GEM) to achieve sustainable exceptional results at every function level to impact results at business level
- To enable accountability for performance, to develop capability of problem solving & continuous improvement at every level.
- To develop & promote GEM within the entire GTX Enterprise at all levels of the organization (working to senior levels).
**Deploy Garrett Excellence Model framework in plants & functions**:
- Conduct baselining activity for related functions.
- Support deployment of 5 pillars of GEM leveraging the GEM champions (leadership & strategy, people competency & capability, operating system maturity, process maturity, delivering results)
**Develop & deploy digitized tool in plants & functions**:
- Deploy & foster utilization of GEM tool pack (8D/RCCA, Kaizen, SDP, A3 DMAIC project digitization, Continuous improvement, leading practice & standards, audit)
- Leverage digitized tool & repository to "fix problems once for good".
**Develop standard & drive process for transformational projects**:
- Develop & drive implementation of standards throughout the 13 plants & functions.
- Lead process for best practice horizontal deployment.
- Support maturity improvement.
- Drive process for transformational kaizen in plants & other transformational projects in other functions.
- Conduct external benchmarks.
**Develop GEM capabilities throughout the organization**:
- Train, coach, mentor, develop GEM champions in plants & functions.
- Certify black belt & lean master applicants
- Coach, drive projects when needed.
- Manage overall governance for certification process.
**Interaction with multiple organizations at various level ( individual contributor to senior leaders, manufacturing, quality, finance, HR, enginnering, supply chain, procurement, sales & marketing, communication department)**
**KPI**
- Achievement of certification levels per plan
- People GEM competency level
**Pivotal Experience & Expertise**:
- L ean Master or Master Black Belt certification is preferred with the objective to coach people.
- Experience Anglo-Saxon environments | Global exposure.
- Relevant BS or BA Degree, relevant master's degree preferred.
- Overall, around 20 years of relevant work experience.
- 10-15 years progressive operational experience
- Multiple cycles/assignments of learning in operations or functional area at manager, functional leader or equivalent level.
- 10+ years of proven leadership experience in implementing the Excellence standards at multiple function & Locations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead change initiatives and drive process excellence.
- Demonstrated project management experience to manage multiple priorities in a highly matrix-ed organization.
- Excellent written communication skills, articulation of standards and processes.
- Hands on Experience on TPS - Lean Management system or similar operating systems or Excellence System implementation as a Leader /Trainer / coach / mentor is mandatory.
- Experience in Lean / Excellence system for Non
- Manufacturing, functional excellence system (Example: Engineering, Procurement, Finance HR) experience is recommended Quality management system Knowledge is an added advantage.
**What is the nature of influence the job has on its area of responsibility / operation?
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- Developing and implementing business strategies for the organization with a longer term focus (typically 3-5 years), based on the corporate vision and objectives.
**What is the level of the contribution to overall business results considering the level of impact determined in the previous question?
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- Significant impact on several business units and their performance, significant contribution to the achievement of results.
**What is the most challenging type of communication for this job?
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- Manage communications of great importance having long-term, strategic implications (5+ years) for the entire organization.
**Innovation**:
- Create truly new concepts and methods of doing things that are ground breaking and based on someone's own ideas.