Senior Manager, Continuous Process Improvement

This role requires a significant amount of travel—approximately 75% or more. That includes regular on‑site visits, client meetings, and occasional extended trips depending on business needs.

Your role at Clorox:

Are you an influencer, teacher, and coach ready to join a high performing team driving supply chain excellence? Do you enjoy working with the end-to-end supply chain to deliver results that are not believed to be possible? As part of the Clorox Operational Excellence team, you will be instrumental in coaching our leaders to deliver excellence in results and excellence in best practices. We believe in hiring top performers with a diverse range of backgrounds; all qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.

The Operations Excellence Coach provides the coaching and training required to guide Operations Excellence through the establishment and implementation of Lean principles across the BU Supply Chain.

This role is responsible for assessing and developing capabilities required to create sustainable improvement and set the desired pace of operations excellence execution. The role will also work with the Supply Chain functions and manufacturing site operations to ensure consistency and standardization of best practices and tools.

The work ranges from leading and facilitating key improvement work with BU leadership to coaching leaders across the end-to-end supply chain, including manufacturing sites.

In this role, you will:

People and Leadership

• Accountable for successful implementation of best practices and standard work, leading to desired supply chain performance outcomes across multiple business units and manufacturing sites
• Coach business unit leadership on Operations Excellence implementation of OPEX standards and best practices
• Coach site leadership on Operations Excellence implementation of strategic OPEX standards and best practices
• Identify and diagnose any barriers (capabilities, behaviors, resources) to successful implementation of best practices and expected performance, and partner with supply chain leadership and plant leadership to develop corrective plans; influencing, coaching, teaching, and routines
• Conduct process health checks, GEMBA, and learn from previous ways of working to enable pace of implementation and new change management routines
• Facilitate training and improvement activities with leadership and supply chain resources
• Connect business, division, and local imperatives to the Operations Excellence work within the supply chain and manufacturing sites
• Provide strong communication to the Operations Excellence team as well as analyze and review results
• Stay connected and updated on current local and market trends in order to support better positioning through Operations Excellence
• Participate in leadership pilot (learning/modeling) activities in key parts of the supply chain

Technical and Business

• Provide Reliability Engineering and Constraint management coaching
• Qualified in the key Leadership TRACCs – Leading & Managing Change, Loss and Waste Analysis, Project Governance, Problem Solving, Strategy Deployment, and Daily Management Systems
• Able to lead and facilitate standardized training.
• Able to execute and facilitate the standard Clorox Tiered Management System
• Able to coach and execute problem solving to drive key results.
• Able to develop Operations Excellence skills in others.
• Able to apply Operations Excellence to company processes.
• Able to use Operations Excellence tools and processes to make small to large scale improvements that is part of the key business strategy.
• Able to coach supply chain and manufacturing site leaders through the OPEX deployment roadmap
• Able to take the current best practices and standards to the next level
• Able to fully comprehend the assessments and plans for all operations teams (mfg, supply chain planning, procurement, logistics) and apply knowledge to coach/teach/facilitate/guide

What we look for:

• College 4-year degree – Supply Chain or Engineering preferred, but, equivalent experience is also considered
• 7+ years of demonstrated supply chain experience, including leadership roles, with at least 3 years in manufacturing
• Proven experience leading organizational change within a manufacturing environment
• Experience driving organizational change across other supply‑chain functions (e.g., Planning, Logistics, Global Strategic Sourcing)
• Demonstrated leadership and execution of improvement initiatives at multiple organizational levels
• Background in developing and delivering technical training programs
• Experience leading an organization operating within a TPM or Lean environment
• Skilled in coaching teams on TPM or Lean methodologies
• Experience implementing the TRACC continuous improvement methodology
• Strong communication and training capabilities, demonstrated through prior roles
• Ability to influence leaders to adopt and execute operational excellence best practices
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively guide and motivate individuals to adopt new ways of working
• Demonstrated ability to plan, manage, and execute multiple projects or activities concurrent
• Ability to maintain high contribution while traveling up to 75%

Workplace type:

Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH