Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related manufacturing discipline
• 8+ years of leadership experience in manufacturing environments
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt required; Master Black Belt preferred
• Proven ability to influence and lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Demonstrated project portfolio and governance experience aligning value drivers to decision-making
• Strong analytical, organizational, and strategic thinking skills with an execution focus
• Excellent communication, facilitation, change management, and mentoring skills
• Deep knowledge of Operational Excellence principles
• Fluency in English required; additional languages a plus
• Experience working in developing countries and remote locations
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 30%
• Physically able to navigate challenging industrial environments

Job Description

Hansen Agri-PLACEMENT is representing a global, diversified agribusiness organization with integrated commodity trading, manufacturing, and logistics operations across multiple international regions. We are seeking a Global Director of Performance Excellence. This role provides advanced thought leadership and hands-on execution of operational excellence and reliability excellence management systems to drive operational performance, value creation, and sustainable results across manufacturing sites. The position will initially focus on deploying continuous improvement initiatives that support customer expectations in geographically diverse and often remote environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and execute continuous improvement and reliability excellence roadmaps across sites and regions, ensuring sustainable adoption of performance excellence processes and measurable outcomes.
• Build a strong continuous improvement culture that enables safe, efficient operations through structured project identification, daily improvement, and performance tracking.
• Define, monitor, and improve KPIs for safety, quality, reliability, cost, and productivity across global operations.
• Partner with leaders at all levels to leverage data and analytics to drive operational insight and sustained performance.
• Collaborate with Organizational Development to design and deploy Continuous Improvement Belt and Root Cause Analysis training and certification programs.
• Partner with automation and site teams to identify, prioritize, and scale digital and automation improvements across regions.
• Champion leading practices and ensure consistent implementation to support operational discipline and process confirmation.