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About Golf Pride
For five generations, Golf Pride® has been the global leader in golf grips. Throughout our history, Golf Pride® has believed in the importance of developing the best performing, most innovative grips for the world's best golfers and amateurs alike. As the only brand that touches every golfer, we are obsessed with the connectedness of the hands to the club, and this inspires every Golf Pride employee in everything we do. Now entering our 75th year, Golf Pride is returning to the category disruption roots that got us started as we enter our next growth phase. While we may be #1, you should expect to see many parallels to a brand reinventing itself as we drive the change management needed to secure our desired transformation.
About The Position
At Golf Pride, Operational Excellence is the discipline that connects strategy to execution, builds the systems and capabilities that allow us to scale, and creates the organizational muscle to get better every day.
As Golf Pride's Global Operational Excellence Manager, you will be the senior-most leader of the Continuous Improvement and EHS functions and a member of the Global Operations Leadership Team, reporting to the Director of Global Operations. You will set the vision, standards, and capability roadmap for both functions. Plant teams and functional leaders look to this role for direction: you own what great CI and EHS look like; our plants and functions own daily execution and local implementation.
CI and EHS are distinct disciplines with different tools and technical demands. But they share a common leadership philosophy: both require building systems that sustain themselves, coaching leaders to own outcomes, and creating cultures where people identify problems, surface risk, and build strong process to improve performance every day. This role leads both because the leadership approach is the same.
Your Continuous Improvement charter spans two equally important priorities:
Manufacturing Process Improvement: Partner with plant teams in Thailand and Taiwan to develop and execute strategies that reduce lead times, lower product cost, and drive measurable P&L impact.
Business Process Improvement: Partner with functional leaders across Golf Pride (Commercial, Innovation, Operations, HR, and Finance) to document and strengthen processes across the business.
Your EHS charter is to set the strategy, talent plan, and capability roadmap for Environmental Health and Safety at Golf Pride, driving world-class safety. Your mandate is to build a culture where safety is deeply embedded in how work gets done, where employees identify and act on risk, leaders model the right behaviors, and safety is valued over speed or output.
Across both functions, you are a coach. You champion lean thinking and safety leadership across every part of the organization, not by owning the work, but by developing the leaders and teams around you to build, own, and continuously improve the processes and practices they run every day. Your goal is to make Golf Pride safer, simpler, and easier to run as we grow.
