Manufacturing Excellence Practice Lead

Manufacturing Excellence Practice Lead

The Manufacturing Excellence Practice Lead is a new role that will help Actemium Avanceon develop its manufacturing consultancy practice and deliver value-added services to our customers. This role will leverage an array of operational technologies to enable manufacturers to become more agile, innovative, and customer-centric, while also improving their efficiency and profitability. 

The perfect fit for this role would be someone passionate about improving and optimizing manufacturing operations via technology and who relishes the opportunity to serve as the customer’s representative to achieve those results. The ideal candidate would possess a broad understanding of manufacturing both from an engineering and business standpoint as well as the ability to identify customer challenges and create effective solutions to address them.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Roadmap and Vision Planning
  • Build and maintain strategic relationships with key decision-makers, partners, and vendors and serve as a trusted advisor to clients
  • Create and maintain a strategic roadmap that outlines the steps and milestones necessary to achieve customers' specific business objectives. This includes identifying and prioritizing initiatives, assessing resources and capabilities, and developing a plan, timeline, and budget for implementation.
  • Identify and direct the delivery of solutions, recommendations, mentorship and/or training that advances the customer along their manufacturing operational excellence journey
• Business Development
  • Support new business, account management, and operations teams with pre-sales consulting, creating solutions, and developing proposal and cost estimates
  • Create differentiation in the market by applying a unique (commercial, solution, etc.) and value-based solution to customer business needs
• Operations
  • Develop and execute plans to achieve revenue and profitability goals on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
  • Support and mentor team members through engagement and customer challenges
• Thought Leadership
  • Play a key role in positioning Actemium Avanceon as a leader in Manufacturing Operational Excellence by attending and participating in conferences, webinars, and other speaking engagements

Requirements:

• Ability to travel to customer locations
• Fluent in English (speaking, reading, and writing)
• Valid driver's license, passport, and credit card for field expenses
• Physically capable of working safely in industrial environments

Why Avanceon?

Yes, we offer all the usual benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401K contributions, etc., but what makes Avanceon different from the rest?

Most importantly, we have cool and talented people. Avanceon associates and the culture they create are what makes us great – for each other, and our customers. 

We also have flex hours, work-from-home opportunities, a casual dress code, a playful and professional work environment, book clubs, social gatherings, oh yeah, let’s not forget professional growth too, freedom to work the way you work, diverse customers and industries (you'll never be bored!), easy and fun ways to donate to charities, were parties mentioned? …And that's just the beginning of the list!

Note about Remote Associates: At Avanceon we value our remote associates just as much as our onsite team members. Our company culture is inclusive and supportive, and we make sure that all of our remote employees feel like they are part of the team, whether that is virtually or traveling to join us in the office. If you're looking for a remote position where you'll be treated like a valued member of the team, then Avanceon is the perfect place for you.

Who is Avanceon? 

We are an engineering firm that helps manufacturers make their factories faster, with higher quality, and less waste. We work within industrial control systems to cause machinery within a manufacturing plant to work in the best possible way. Our clients come from many different verticals (food, consumer goods, drinking and wastewater – not together! and much more). You can imagine that this provides incredible amounts of varied and fascinating experiences for our associates. We are a stable and growing business that, thanks to our awesome employees, we have even been named a Top Workplace in Philly since 2017!

Go on, check us out on our website: www.avanceon.com

We believe our differences enrich our growth and success. Avanceon is committed to creating an inclusive environment that values and welcomes diversity among our associates. We are an equal-opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.