Ryder System Hiring for Manager of Automation and Continuous Improvement at Tallahassee, Florida Full Time

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Summary

The Manager of Automation and Continuous Improvement has a dual role to drive and measure continuous improvement and lead the operations of Ryder’s software robot workers (including RPA, Power Automate tools, and Workflow automation). The successful candidate will be responsible for the identification and prioritization of process automation projects across multiple Ryder business units, managing run-time automation operations, and creating and maintaining associated business reporting of automated processes.

The position has responsibility for soliciting and documenting internal client requirements, ensuring as-is processes and opportunities are clearly identified and measured, and easily understood and usable by developers to build and support those automated processes. The manager will recognize and identify any impediments to automation, and conduct automation feasibility analysis. The role will partner with business analysts and automation developers to ensure successful delivery and internal client satisfaction. Ensure that the team maintains documentation up to date as needed.

Project Management responsibilities include overseeing design, delivery, testing, and warranty phases of the projects. The successful candidate will have an understanding of business process, experience in enterprise project delivery, and/or understand the software delivery lifecycle at a large company. This is an excellent opportunity for a mid-career project manager, continuous improvement expert, or technologist to become the face of an important product that improves all of Ryder’s lines of business.

REMOTE work from HOME

Essential Functions

• Opportunity Discovery: Interface directly with internal clients including directors and vice presidents to identify, document, and prioritize automation opportunities. Examples include:

Running workshops or side-by-sides with SMEs to understand end to end processes, identifying automation blockers and suitability of the process for automation.

Understanding the risks, assumptions, and dependencies associated with the process.

Presenting summaries of findings to leaders, technology partners, and client, walking them through to-be designs of automated processes.

• Requirement Gathering / Delivery: Work closely with development team to ensure requirements are accurately mapped and suitable for development. Track progress daily or weekly as appropriate, provide updates for sprint reviews and in-progress demonstrations to SME’s and leadership.

•Benefit Calculation: Calculate automation % and FTE benefit and build effort estimates for all processes. Ensure that prioritization considers expected benefit as well as effort & feasibility.

•Continuous Learning and coaching: Evaluate additional automation tools, best practices, and provides recommendations for additions or changes to the tool-kit, structure, and role of the COE.

Responsible for continual research into external expertise to ensure Ryder becomes best-in-class in process efficiency, and use and application of automation.

Supports and Coaches junior members of the team in business process analysis, stakeholder interaction, and project / program management.

• Robotic Workforce Leadership: Management of the Ryder robotic workforce, ensuring appropriate MIS on daily results is complete and accurate. Initial identification and triage of issues with any robots in production.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrates analytical skills

• Ability to build strong customer relationships

• Ability to lead/manage others, both with and without direct authority

• Proven leadership skills

•Background as a Product Owner, Program Manager , or Portfolio Manager preferred

• Strong verbal and written communication

• Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of an organization (peers, work groups, customers, supervisors)

•Ability to work independently, as well as a member of a project or operational team

• Flexibility and Responsibility to operate; self-driven to excel and seek out opportunities and build visibility

• Capable of multi-tasking, highly organized, with excellent time management skills

•Detailed oriented with excellent follow-up practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in Business, Accounting, Operations, Engineering or Technology; or a bachelor’s degree in other fields plus at least one certification in Project Management, Six Sigma, Lean, or Business Analysis

•Master’s degree preferred in Business, Accounting, Operations, Engineering or Technology

• Five (5) years experience in large Project Deployments, such as Six Sigma / Lean projects ,Technology Implementations, or Leading Corporate Change Management initiatives.

• Five (5) years of Exposure to Six Sigma / Lean projects, Corporate IT departments, Operational Improvement, and/or participation in Corporate Change Management initiatives or projects

• Preferred Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Product Owner (CSPO), Business Process Management (BPM), Lean Certification, American Society for Quality (e.g. Process Analyst), or International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).

Travel

0-10%

DOT Regulated

No

Job Category: Data Science & Analytics

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Requisition ID: R33198

Job Type: Full time

Ryder operates behind the scenes, managing critical fleet, transportation and supply chain functions for over 50,000 customers, many of which make the products that consumers use every day. When you choose Ryder, you get access to industry-leading technology, one of North America’s largest fleet of trucks, an expansive infrastructure of maintenance facilities and warehouses, and some of the most talented people in the industry.

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