Bimbo Bakeries USA hiring Director Full Potential Office Value Lead in Horsham, PA | LinkedIn (2024)

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Employment Type: Regular

Location: HORSHAM,PA

Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!

More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.

Annual Bonus Eligibility

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Paid Time Off

401k & Company Match

Position SummaryThe Full Potential Office (FPO) Value Lead plays an important role in helping to lead our business transformation and shaping our organization’s long-term success. As a critical member of our FPO team, you will work closely with the VP of Strategy & Transformation, fellow members of the FPO team, senior leadership, and business leaders to ensure visibility and accountability over our portfolio of initiatives, programs, and projects, ensuing they are delivered in a timely manner with quality and excellence.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Support the establishment and sustainment of the Full Potential Office (FPO) governance model. In collaboration with FPO colleagues, actively champion robust communication/change management plans while collaborating closely with key stakeholders to ensure effective initiative sequencing, identifying, and addressing risk in achieving program aspirations.
• Ensure program sources of value are aligned to overall strategy and program targets.
• Support business leaders and Finance Partners on business case development for the highest value / most complex transformation initiatives, as needed.
• Establish guidelines and definitions for “what counts” as productivity, what will be tracked in our productivity management tool, and accounting treatments for different types of cost savings and cost avoidance.
• Work with FP&A and Finance Partners to ensure initiative/program outputs tie to timely and accurate reporting of data against approved metrics (e.g., P&L and budgets).
• Report value delivery to Senior Leadership Team and agree on stakeholder messages.

Position RequirementsKey Behavioral Competencies:

• Experience partnering, leading, and influencing through change initiatives or business transformation.
• Learning enthusiast: comfortable dealing with concepts and ideas while demonstrating the ability to see the way ahead for the project.
• Demonstrate a high level of business acumen and business finance capability.
• Can see the big picture, good understanding of the organization strategy as well as the transformation intent.
• Demonstrate strong leadership presence, influencing skills and sense of urgency; ability to influence and communicate to the senior level in the organization.
• Ability to drive transparency and accountability through data-based conversations, including navigating difficult discussions while maintaining collaborative partnerships.
• Strong coach and motivator, with proven experience building and leading teams while developing high potential talent.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver business results in collaboration with business leaders and key stakeholders.

Education And Work History

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or business-related field required, MBA preferred.
• 10+ years relevant work experience with a minimum of 5 years leading direct reports, CPG preferred.
• Comfortable leveraging data resources, tools, and building business models in MS Excel.
• Confident communicator (including both written and verbal) and able to effectively present to all levels of the organization, including the senior leadership and executive team.
• Advanced technology skills and proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Ability to learn and be proficient at other analytical tools and data sources.
• Experience working in a remote team setting under pressure and in a fast-paced environment.
• Relationship builder with excellent communication skills, empathy, and respect for diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated success operating at a strategic level along with operational expertise in multiple disciplines is required.
• Leadership skills and demonstrated success in developing strong cross functional business relationships.
• Self-starter with strong analytical skills, research capabilities and overall business acumen required.

Physical Demands

• Able to use a variety of communication methods frequently.
• Use a notebook computer and standard office equipment printers, fax, phone etc.
• Able to sit, stand, stoop and have use of hand motor coordination regularly.

The physical and mental demands described in each job posting are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of each job. Reasonable accommodations may be requested to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of each job.

Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, any other classification protected by law.