Program Lead

About the role

The Program Lead drives the plant's margin improvement, operational excellence, and strategic initiatives agenda. This role translates opportunities into measurable business results by leading cross-functional execution, ensuring financial discipline, and sustaining improvements across cost, productivity, service, quality, and efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Own and govern the annual and multi-year margin improvement portfolio
• Build and maintain a strong pipeline of margin improvement and productivity opportunities
• Drive initiatives from concept to execution, benefit realization, and sustainment
• Set clear governance, cadence, ownership, milestones, risks, and escalation paths
• Provide concise leadership updates on progress, savings, risks, and decisions required
• Develop business cases and investment proposals for strategic initiatives and margin improvement projects
• Partner with Finance to validate savings, ROI, payback, and benefit realization
• Ensure benefits are measurable, auditable, and sustained
• Align stakeholders, remove barriers, and accelerate decisions across functions

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business, or related field
• 8+ years of manufacturing, operations, or supply chain experience
• 5+ years leading cross-functional programs
• Proven track record delivering material productivity, cost, and operational performance improvements
• Margin improvement and productivity program leadership expertise
• Operational excellence, Lean, structured problem solving, and change execution capability
• Business case development, ROI analysis, and savings validation skills
• Advanced degree or Lean Six Sigma certification and/or PMP certification preferred