[Hiring] Operational Excellence Manager @Campbell's

Role Description

The Operational Excellence Manager- Surge Team supports the deployment and sustainment of Campbell’s Operational Excellence strategy by working directly with manufacturing, warehouse, distribution, and cross-functional teams to improve performance across safety, quality, service, cost, and people metrics. This role is focused on practical execution, hands-on facilitation, data-driven problem solving, and capability building to help sites identify losses, implement improvements, standardize ways of working, and sustain measurable results.

You will help advance Campbell’s Operational Excellence agenda by turning standards, tools, and improvement methodologies into practical routines that teams can use every day. Working closely with site teams, functional leaders, and Operational Excellence partners, you will facilitate improvement activity, coach teams on problem-solving behaviors, strengthen execution discipline, and help sustain results through visible follow-up, governance, and performance tracking.

Responsibilities

• Support deployment of Campbell Way of Working - Operational Excellence standards, tools, and routines within assigned sites or workstreams.
• Facilitate site-level action plans and improvement roadmaps that strengthen operational performance and organizational capability.
• Translate Operational Excellence standards into practical routines, tools, templates, and best practices that improve consistency and execution.
• Partner with site teams to sustain gains through visible follow-up, governance, standard work, and performance tracking.
• Apply lean manufacturing, TPM, focused improvement, value stream mapping, root cause analysis, and loss elimination methods to support problem solving and improvement work.
• Use data analysis, shop-floor observations, and operational diagnostics to identify opportunities, prioritize actions, and support decision-making.
• Facilitate kaizen events, rapid improvement activities, and structured problem-solving sessions with site and functional teams.
• Track benefits, monitor performance indicators, escalate risks, and support countermeasures to sustain improvement results.
• Deliver training, coaching, and on-the-floor support that builds Operational Excellence capability across frontline, functional, and leadership teams.
• Reinforce standard work, daily management routines, problem-solving behaviors, and continuous improvement practices through practical application.
• Prepare and adapt materials, tools, communications, and job aids that enable consistent adoption of Operational Excellence practices.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement by modeling expected behaviors and supporting team adoption.
• Build effective relationships with site leaders, frontline teams, functional partners, and Operational Excellence stakeholders.
• Support cross-functional alignment by translating data, observations, and team feedback into clear recommendations and action plans.
• Communicate progress, risks, issues, and results in a clear, concise, and business-focused manner.
• Influence adoption of improvement practices through credibility, collaboration, coaching, and demonstrated follow-through.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 7+ years of manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, distribution, operational excellence, continuous improvement, or related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying continuous improvement methodologies, structured problem solving, and data analysis to improve operational performance.
• Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and influence teams without direct authority.
• Ability to travel based on business needs (up to +70%).
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, supply chain, business, or a related field.
• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or food manufacturing experience.
• Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, ASQ, or related continuous improvement certification.
• Experience supporting Operational Excellence deployment, kaizen events, daily management systems, or capability-building initiatives.

Compensation and Benefits

• The target base salary range for this full-time, salaried position is between $110,600-$152,100.
• Individual base pay depends on work location and additional factors such as experience, job-related skills, and relevant education or training.
• Total pay may include other forms of compensation.
• Competitive health, dental, 401k, and wellness benefits beginning on the first day of employment.