The position ensures manufacturing and operational leadership understands the drivers of direct (e.g., labor, material, supplies) and indirect (e.g., overhead, administration) costs while supporting continuous improvement efforts, and will from time to time collaborate with the global Operating Excellence and Business Transformation teams on plant- or facility-wide improvement and transformation projects. This role works closely with Plant Managers, Operations Leaders, Supply Chain teams, and Product Management to ensure operational performance improvement, cost reduction, productivity initiatives, accurate cost capture and documentation on projects, and complexity reduction targets are achieved, and to ensure decisions are data-driven and fact-based.