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Director, Operational Excellence & Business Enablement

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1950 Spectrum Cir, Marietta, GA 30067, USA
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Build Your Career as a Director, Operational Excellence & Business Enablement!

At BlueLinx, our people are at the heart of our success. We are committed to ensuring our team members can build job security, enhance their skills, and make meaningful contributions. We deliver the building blocks to better lives.

Join us and be part of a company that values its people and strives to make a positive impact on the industry!   Why BlueLinx? Comprehensive benefits include:

Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription 401(k) with company match  Tuition reimbursement Life Insurance Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and 8 Company Holidays Career Growth: Opportunity to develop and advance your career with a leading building products distributor. 

  Job Summary The Director, Operational Excellence & Business Enablement leads the development and deployment of the BlueLinx operating system across the branch network. This role converts operational strategy, performance data, and technology investments into standard processes, measurable performance improvement, and sustained branch adoption. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Logistics Systems, the Director partners across Regional Operations, Branch Operations, Commercial, Inventory, Finance, Human Resources, Safety, and Information Technology to improve customer service, labor productivity, cost performance, process consistency, and the adoption of new operating capabilities.   What You'll Do  

Understands the company’s vision, mission, and strategy; translates business and functional objectives into clear Operational Excellence priorities and measurable outcomes. Leads the enterprise operations performance-management process, including metric definitions, monthly reporting, trend analysis, performance reviews, corrective-action follow-up, and continuous improvement of dashboards and reporting methods. Owns governance and continuous improvement for On-Time and In-Full delivery performance, including failure-reason categories, functional ownership, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and branch adoption. Develops and maintains the BlueLinx branch operating system, including standard work, daily and weekly management routines, branch assessment methods, operating playbooks, and sustainment reviews. Leads the operational labor-management strategy, including common productivity measures, labor standards, reporting requirements, and branch improvement plans developed in partnership with Regional Operations and Human Resources. Serves as the business process and adoption leader for operations, logistics and warehouse technology-enabled improvement initiatives, including transportation, warehouse management, scanning, labeling, automation, data, and artificial intelligence capabilities. Translates operational needs into clear business requirements; leads current-state and future-state process design, operational pilots, field testing, readiness, rollout planning, training, adoption measurement, and post-launch sustainment. Maintains the enterprise Operational Excellence project portfolio and prioritizes work based on customer impact, business value, risk, available resources, and alignment with company strategy. Partners with Finance to validate expected and realized financial benefits, including direct savings, cost avoidance, productivity improvements, and working-capital opportunities. Provides structured problem-solving support for complex, cross-functional, or recurring branch issues while ensuring the accountable function retains ownership of execution and sustainment. Builds organizational capability through practical training and coaching in standard work, root-cause analysis, process improvement, visual management, and leader operating routines. Identifies proven branch practices and creates repeatable methods to scale those practices across regions and locations. Builds strong working relationships with regional, branch, and functional leadership; influences decisions through clear data, practical recommendations, and disciplined follow-through. Leads and develops assigned Operational Excellence, analytics, process improvement, or industrial engineering resources and actively supports talent acquisition and succession planning. Travel: Up to 50%, based on branch support, project deployment, leader development, and business priorities

  Qualifications

Certifications: Lean, Six Sigma Black Belt, or comparable process-improvement certification preferred Educational: Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related field required. Master's degree preferred. Generally 5+ years of relevant experience in distribution, manufacturing, logistics, or multi-site operations; demonstrated experience leading people and cross-functional business process improvement

  What We're Looking For

Deep knowledge of distribution or multi-site operations, including branch execution, warehouse processes, customer service, labor productivity, and operating cost drivers. Demonstrated ability to build performance-management systems that connect measures, root causes, ownership, corrective action, and sustained results. Practical experience developing standard work, management routines, branch assessments, and scalable operating playbooks. Experience leading cross-functional improvement initiatives from business requirements and process design through pilot, rollout, adoption, and sustainment. Strong business analytics capability with the ability to validate data, interpret performance, identify meaningful trends, and communicate findings in plain language. Working knowledge of warehouse and transportation technology, business intelligence tools, automation, and technology-enabled process improvement. Experience with labor management, industrial engineering, warehouse layout, slotting, material flow, or labor standards preferred. Strong facilitation, project leadership, change-management, coaching, and executive communication skills. Ability to move comfortably between branch-level observation and executive-level decision support. Ability to manage competing priorities, establish decision rights, and prevent temporary project support from becoming permanent functional ownership Strong follow-through, sound judgment, and a bias toward simple, repeatable solutions that can be sustained by the field.

 

Our Values With every decision and action, we put people first, keep the future in mind, and work as a team toward shared progress. • Customer Centric • Respect • Collaboration • Integrity • Grit

  About Us:

BlueLinx is one of America’s largest distributors of building products, with over 70,000 branded and private-label SKUs. Headquartered in Marietta, Georgia, we have over 2,000 associates and distribute our comprehensive range of structural and specialty products to approximately 15,000 national, regional, and local dealers, as well as specialty distributors, national home centers, industrial, and manufactured housing customers. The salary range provided is a good-faith estimate based on the position requirements and market data. Actual compensation will depend on factors including experience, qualifications, skills, geographic location, and other job-related considerations. BlueLinx also offers a comprehensive benefits package including health care, dental, vision, life and disability insurance starting the first day of the month, 15 days of paid time off that start accruing your first day, and 8 paid holidays per year. 

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