Business Process Optimization Director jobs in Illinois

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field such as Finance , or relevant experience required.
• 8 years of continuous improvement and transformation experience or consultant equivalent (i.e., Big 4) required.
• Leads and fosters the continuous improvement roadmap and drive operational improvement and ensures engagement of the entire Finance team through strong communication and clear direction.
• Ability to think creatively, disrupt long-standing views or processes, deal with ambiguity (building from a clean sheet of paper) and quickly adapt and grow.
• Excellent communication, strong influencing skills and relationships across finance business functions; confidence to challenge the finance business leaders or approach with difficult messages and defend position
• Establishes measures of progress and results with projects, including reducing operating costs as a percentage to sales and the ability to build buy-in across the organization for improvements.
• Experience working in global business matrixed environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows & analytics (data collection, sub-systems, ledger).
• Demonstrated leadership of a large team required; charismatic leadership presence with a strong ability to develop high-performing teams.
• Experience and desire to roll-up sleeves; pivoting between leading the charge or leading leaders to deliver results, where appropriate.
• Analytic skills & clear thinking: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen and business insights with ability to draw fast conclusions on opportunities and an obsession to act even with imperfect information.
  
  

• With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.
• Benefits starting on day one, including medical, dental vision and life insurance
• 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period with no personal contribution required
• Employee discounts, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, free access to financial counseling, education and more.