Lennox (NYSE: LII) Driven by 130 years of legacy, HVAC and refrigeration success, Lennox provides our residential and commercial customers with industry-leading climate-control solutions. At Lennox, we win as a team, aiming for excellence and delivering innovative, sustainable products and services. Our culture guides us and creates a workplace where all employees feel heard and welcomed. Lennox is a global community that values each team member’s contributions and offers a supportive environment for career development. Come, stay, and grow with us.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead strategic initiatives supporting the HCS Materials Excellence roadmap, driving alignment, execution, and measurable business results across multiple sites.
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Coordinate Materials Excellence governance, including KPIs, TTIs, scorecards, risks, action plans, and benefit realization.
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Partner with site leadership and subject matter experts to deploy and sustain Materials Excellence initiatives, remove barriers, and accelerate value realization.
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Conduct strategic analyses to identify opportunities in inventory optimization, material flow, warehouse operations, supplier integration, and network design.
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Develop data-driven recommendations, business cases, and implementation plans that improve service, inventory, productivity, and cost performance.
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Develop and maintain performance dashboards, scorecards, and analytical tools that support decision-making and accountability.
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Lead Materials Value Stream Mapping (MVSM), process mapping, and assessment activities to identify flow constraints, inventory opportunities, material handling waste, and future-state improvement plans.
- Support deployment of MMF, PFEP, pull systems, inventory strategies, warehouse processes, and material presentation standards.
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Partner with IT and business stakeholders to evaluate and implement digital solutions, automation technologies, and advanced analytics capabilities.
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Facilitate cross-functional workshops, kaizen events, and leadership reviews to drive alignment, issue resolution, and execution.
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Develop, deploy, and sustain Materials Excellence standard work, playbooks, governance processes, and implementation tools that enable consistent execution across HCS manufacturing sites.
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Serve as a hands-on change agent, working directly with site teams to deploy solutions, remove barriers, challenge the status quo, and accelerate benefit realization.
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Support material flow and feeding strategies that improve operational stability, maximize uptime, and eliminate material-related disruptions.
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Requires a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
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Requires at least 10 years related experience.
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CPM, CSCP, CPIM, Lean, Six Sigma or equivalent certification is preferred.
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Requires expertise in best practices in a wide range of supply chain functions and their relationships.
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Requires broad understanding of process best practices, barriers to implementation and the highest level of problem solving ability.
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Expert quantitative and analytical skills; broad range of computer skills—database, spreadsheet, statistics applications, and logistics software packages; understand contracts and tariffs.
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Demonstrates strong financial acumen and understanding of the value chain.
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Must have excellent customer service and relational skills. Requires excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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Must be able to lead and motivate complex cross-functional project teams.
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This role will travel up to 75% of the time between sites in the US and Mexico.
