Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative Strategic Innovation Manager

Strategic Innovation Manager - Clackamas (Req. 2999)

Full-time RegularProfessionalClackamas, OR, US

18 days agoRequisition ID: 2999APPLY

Join the OBRC Corporate Team! The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative has an opening for a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing financial performance and data-driven metric development for various programs along with coordinating operations, policy development, and quality control for each program. OBRC is the industry steward of Oregon’s nationally recognized beverage container deposit program. We help keep Oregon beautiful by providing outstanding services to our partner distributors and retailers, and to the public for the recovery, reuse, and recycling of beverage containers. This position will work in our beautiful new headquarters building located in Clackamas, OR. We offer competitive wages, great benefits, 401k with company match, and much more!


Summary

The Strategic Innovation Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for various company programs, including overseeing all financial performance and data-driven metric development for those programs and coordinating and/or informing operations, policy development, and quality control for each program. In addition to continued program improvement and development, the Strategic Innovation Manager will focus on financial and data-driven metric development and tracking, and continuously provide new insights into logistical, operational, and financial efficiency and performance of multiple systems. This position investigates consumer needs and behavior, including fraudulent behavior, and uses findings to support policy development and operational changes, including changes to IT systems, company websites, the mobile app, and other platforms. The Strategic Innovation Manager partners with senior leaders in the organization to ensure all policies and procedures reflect OBRC best practices.


Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Develops innovative ways to improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and counting accuracy

  • Develops new and innovate metrics for assessing system performance, and proposes those metrics for operational decision making

  • Creates models and processes for regular and transparent financial and logistical reporting and feedback on program efficiency, accuracy, and performance

  • Forecasts future volume growth by region/site utilizing multiple factors, including population growth, grocery store density, surrounding drop site capacity, etc.

  • Works with Corporate Relations to assess and address retailer needs and issues

  • Participates in and coordinates development and website updates, as appropriate

  • Informs recommendations for new site locations, or expansion of existing sites

  • Participates in discussions about program technologies

  • Regularly assesses processing capabilities by location, making recommendations to ensure processing demand is being consistently met

  • Partners with CFO and Operations to continuously assess proper alignment between cost and fees

  • Develops and maintains programs to assess accuracy and completeness

  • Ensures that audit programs are implemented and consistently adhered to by operations teams

  • Studies loading, unloading, and transport methodologies to provide recommendations to operations teams about potential improvements and enhancements

  • Provides feedback to operations regarding program distribution systems

  • Monitors access controls for programs, where required

  • Monitors physical inventories for financial accounting team and provides supply on-hand versus consumer demand metrics to operations for timely ordering from suppliers

Education/Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business with a focus on process improvement or logistics required; Master of Business Administration degree preferred.

  • Minimum 5 years demonstrated success working in the areas of process management and/or logistics. Previous experience in finance preferred.

  • Previous experience in leadership position

 

Requirements – Skills, Job Knowledge & Abilities

  • Demonstrated track record of success working in a leadership role in logistics, process management, and/or finance

  • Solutions focused, with the ability to look at the big picture

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively at all levels with both internal and external partners, especially writing and editing internal and external documents

  • Ability to translate technical and/or complex information into easily understood formats

  • Proven leadership experience with ability to work well independently, be a self-starter and work as part of a team, and demonstrated ability to create cross-department approaches and solutions

  • Demonstrated ability to successfully prioritize and manage multiple projects, adhere to deadlines, handle frequent changes effectively and professionally, follow through on issues in a timely manner, and give excellent attention to detail with a high level of accuracy

  • Proficiency and professional knowledge of MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, and Outlook

  • A current driver's license and acceptable driving history is required

 

Supervisory Responsibility

  • This position has direct supervisory responsibility

 

Travel

  • Frequent travel throughout Oregon up to 25% is required


Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance plans for Full-Time Employees

  • 401(k) with company matching

  • Paid Time Off

  • Paid Holidays