VP, Business Process Excellence & Transformation
Harvey, IL, US, 60426
Why FUCHS? Because Your Success Moves Us.
At FUCHS, we believe in empowering people to grow, innovate, and thrive. Our culture is built on trust, respect, integrity, and creativity, and we back it up with real opportunities for development, a strong work/life balance, and the freedom to make an impact. When you join FUCHS, you’re not just taking a job, you’re launching a career.
Salary:
FUCHS offers competitive pay commensurate with experience in a similar position. The range for this position is $235,000 - $265,000 annually, but actual compensation will vary depending upon a new hire’s experience and qualifications as well as internal equity.
What You’ll Be Responsible For:
The Vice President of Business Process Excellence & Transformation is a transformational leader responsible for helping the organization work together more effectively, efficiently, and consistently to achieve its strategic goals. This role focuses on leading change across the enterprise by building alignment, driving accountability, and fostering behaviors that enable teams to operate as one organization.
Working closely with leaders across the enterprise, this executive champions a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational discipline. The role is responsible for helping teams understand and embrace new ways of working, ensuring process ownership is clearly defined, and enabling leaders and employees to successfully adopt and sustain change.
Success in this position depends on the ability to influence people, build trust, challenge organizational silos, and lead enterprise-wide transformation initiatives that simplify how work gets done and improve the employee and customer experience. The role serves as a catalyst for organizational effectiveness, helping leaders translate strategy into execution while embedding accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement into the company's culture.
Reporting directly to a COO, this leader plays a critical role in shaping the behaviors, capabilities, and mindset required to support long-term business growth and organizational success.
Key responsibilities include:
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- Enterprise Process Strategy
- Process Improvement & Operational Excellence
- Change Leadership (collaboration with Human Resources)
- Cross-Functional Alignment
- Process Standardization & Governance
- Data, Metrics & Performance Management
What We’re Looking For:
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- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing, operations, supply chain, operational excellence, or business transformation.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide process improvement initiatives.
- Experience managing large-scale transformation programs across multiple sites or regions.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, supply chain processes, and business systems.
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma (Black Belt or Master Black Belt preferred)
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Operational Excellence systems
- ERP platforms (SAP strongly preferred)
- Program Management
- Change Management
- Data Analytics and KPI Management
- Digital Manufacturing and Automation (preferred)
What You’ll Get:
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- A dynamic, supportive team environment
- Competitive pay
- Comprehensive benefits package (details here: https://fuchs.com/us/en/benefits)
- Career growth in a global company that values your ideas and initiative
FUCHS Lubricants Co. is an equal employment opportunity (EEO)/AA employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace (m/f/d/v).
Do you have any questions? Agata Kolasinska (Agata.Kolasinska@fuchs.com) will be more than happy to answer them!
Nearest Major Market: Chicago