Business Performance Director

Company Overview

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (OTS) is a global leader in the design, engineering and production of munitions, energetics, weapons, armaments, and missile subsystems around the world. OTS empowers the U.S. military and its allies with an extensive range of overarching product segments applied across all levels of strategic and tactical operations, providing a cutting-edge advantage to our warfighters. Our Ethos of Honesty, Trust, Transparency, and Alignment, are the guiding principles that form the foundation of everything we do. Integrity is paramount, innovation fuels our passion, customer satisfaction is at the core of our mission, and collaboration is key to our success - fostering a culture of teamwork and mutual respect among employees, partners, and stakeholders. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits that include career development and recognition programs. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!

Job Summary

Analyzes the effectiveness of current business processes to identify best practices and opportunities for improvement. | Designs, develops or participates in the optimization of business objectives. | Develops proposals for further development of the organization to support the business strategy. | Responsible for the Lean/Six Sigma roadmap alignment and Operation Excellence deployment across Artillery Systems.

Impact of the Role

General Profile

• Recognized as an expert within the company and requires in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline and broad knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function
• Solves unique problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Contributes to the development of organization functional strategy
• Progression to this level is typically restricted on the basis of business requirements
• Consistent exercise of discretion & judgment

Functional Leadership

• Determines professional/ technical approaches and strategies for own function
• Develops policies and procedures for own function, in line with overall organization strategy
• Has responsibility for the function and reports to the site/ SBU head (and/ or to a Home Office functional leader).

Essential Functions

• Utilizes data-driven methodologies to analyze business performance metrics and process improvement options effectively.
• Conducts periodic status reviews of organizational goals and objectives to identify roadblocks to progress.
• Drives strategic initiatives and supports the development of long-term growth plans and profitability goals.
• Develops and directs reporting and tools to communicate strategic plans and concepts to leadership.
• Executes and enables an organization's strategic and long-range goal planning function.
• May analyze and recommend emerging industry trends, expansion opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions, competitive threats, the viability of outside business partners, and sources of capital.

Additional Responsibilities

• Facilitates Lean events as a Kaizen Leader or Lean Tool Expert to drive process and performance improvements.
• Manages the Strategic Goal Deployment process and Operations Review structure for the business.

Required Qualifications

• Required education and experience: Associate's Degree and 10-12 years' experience OR Equivalent Combination of Relevant Education &/or Experience
• Critical professional related technical skills; computer skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred education and experience: Bachelor's Degree
• Discipline/Major: Business Administration or Related Degree
• Knowledge, skills & abilities: Business Operations. Strategic Analysis. Strategic Project Management. Strategy Development. Strategy Management. Trend Analysis. Organizational Goal Setting. Strategic Planning. Risk Analysis. Long Term Planning. Experience leading Transactional Process Improvements (TPI), Standard Work, Value Stream Mapping, and 5S events.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position at a desk and/or computer for extended periods of time.
• Requires regular movement throughout GD-OTS facilities.
• Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.

Travel Requirements

25-50% travel likely.

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