Business Process Redesign Manager

Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric's innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential 'Linc' that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company's website at https://www.lincolnelectric.com.

Location: Euclid - 22801

Employment Status: Salary Full-Time

Function: Supply Management/Purchasing

Pay Range: $111,115.00-$138,894.00

Target Bonus: 15.0%

Req ID: 30471

Position Summary

The Business Process Redesign Manager is a strategic individual contributor responsible for transforming sourcing and supply chain processes to improve efficiency, scalability, compliance, and business performance. This role partners closely with Sourcing, Planning, Operations, Engineering, Finance, IT, and supplier-facing teams to identify improvement opportunities, redesign workflows, implement best practices, and drive sustainable change across the global sourcing organization.

This position serves as the internal architect for sourcing processes, leveraging data, technology, and cross-functional collaboration to eliminate waste, standardize work, improve visibility, and strengthen decision-making. Success in this role will be measured by measurable improvements in productivity, cycle times, working capital, supplier performance, and user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis, redesign, and implementation of sourcing and supply chain processes to improve efficiency, scalability, compliance, and business performance while driving globally consistent ways of working across the organization.
• Establish and deploy standardized sourcing processes, governance models, and best practices that improve consistency, transparency, and operational effectiveness across global regions and business units.
• Drive continuous improvement through process standardization, Lean methodologies, root-cause analysis, and performance management initiatives that enhance productivity, reduce cycle times, and eliminate process variation.
• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and implement digital transformation, automation, analytics, and system optimization opportunities that support a unified global sourcing operating model.
• Lead cross-functional projects involving Sourcing, Planning, Operations, Engineering, Finance, Quality, and IT to deliver sustainable process improvements and organizational alignment.
• Develop business cases, implementation roadmaps, KPI frameworks, and executive reporting to support decision-making, accountability, and benefits realization.
• Serve as the global subject matter expert for sourcing process excellence, ensuring adherence to standard processes while identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness, user experience, and business outcomes.
• Analyze sourcing and operational data to identify improvement opportunities, validate results, and ensure initiatives deliver measurable business value across the global sourcing organization.

Qualifications and Experience

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in sourcing, procurement, supply chain, operations, business process improvement, transformation, or management consulting.
• Proven success leading complex, cross-functional process redesign and transformation initiatives across multiple functions, business units, or geographic regions.
• Experience designing and implementing standardized business processes, governance frameworks, and operating models in a global environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change and influence stakeholders at all levels without direct authority.
• Strong background utilizing ERP, procurement, analytics, and workflow management systems to improve operational effectiveness.
• Knowledge of strategic sourcing, supplier management, procure-to-pay, materials planning, inventory management, and/or supply chain operations.
• Willingness to travel up to 15%

Preferred Qualifactions:

• MBA or advanced degree
• Experience developing business cases, KPI frameworks, performance dashboards, and executive-level presentations.
• Experience identifying and implementing automation, digitalization, and systems optimization opportunities within sourcing and supply chain processes.
• SAP/Ariba experience

Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.