Do you want to work for a global company that creates remarkable experiences through people, products, and food? If you want to be part of a rewarding People First culture that values relationships, trust, and taking the long view, then this is the place for you. Henny Penny was named the 2021 Dayton Business of the Year for many good reasons. Read on to learn more!

The Vice President of Business Transformation (VPBT), will be focused on transforming the way we conduct and operate traditional business functions, challenging the status quo and injecting innovative thought leadership to improve operational efficiencies, effectiveness, and execution. The VPBT will work build new capabilities across the organization throughout all operational areas to enable an enterprise-wide process evolution such that the organization becomes more agile, scalable, adaptive, and responsive to new and existing markets and customers The VPBT, will play a critical role in leading the organization through a process/data/system transition collaborating with various organizational leaders across the enterprise to understand business operations and connectivity to HP processes, data, and systems. This successful candidate will work closely with the Senior Operations and IT leadership teams to ensure a seamless, end-to-end transition occurs.

What We Offer:

An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee-owned. As an employee-owner, you will be enrolled in our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) program following one year of service. This is a qualified retirement plan that is separate from your 401k and consists only of Henny Penny shares that will be paid out when you retire (or when you leave the company, but we hope you’ll stay)
Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary
Flexibility to work from home 2 days per week
Defined career paths so you’ll always know what’s next and what steps can get where you want to go
Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning courses
A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays
Expanded onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners
Achieve total well-being at our new Wellspring and Owners Hall facility, featuring 24/7 fitness center with a wide variety of cardio and strength training equipment. This facility reflects our continuous evolution in supporting our valued employee owners.
Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner

What You’ll Be Doing

Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on transformational efforts while driving Continuous Improvement methodology (LEAN) across Henny Penny (HP) to support the deployment of modern technology and process in targeted areas.
Ensure proper operational integration is maintained by understanding upstream/downstream impacts when operational system enhancements are being requested as it relates to plan’s Customer Relations Management System.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure adherence with approved tools or identification of additional technologies as applicable.
Monitors and lead efforts in business expansion opportunities and provide regular status updates and risks to delivery for prioritized efforts.
Supporting the Transformation projects across Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office
Working with Business partners to define KPIs at functional levels and their teams that are easily measurable and are aligned to drive value for the organization.
Facilitates preparation of project plans and proposals, outlining project objectives, IS requirements
Develops methodologies for design, development, delivery, and support of information systems to meet business needs as well as best practices for application development, testing procedures, and release processes.
Recruit, manage, coach and lead managers and staff with the skills to maintain a high-quality organization.
Consistently demonstrate HP company values and leadership expected behaviors.
Other duties as assigned.

What We’re Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business Administration or Finance with Business Transformation experience. Master’s degree preferred
12 or more years of relevant work experience
5 or more years of experience in Manufacturing Industry.
Thought leadership and a “growth mindset” experienced in building adoption or onboarding plans
Excellent interpersonal skills , planning, facilitation, and organizational skills
Ability to influence and understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives of situations.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office – specifically Word, Excel, VISIO, and PowerPoint.

About Us

We’re known in our industry for making the best commercial food equipment in the world. Every day, millions of people eat in restaurants operating Henny Penny equipment. We’re a behind-the-scenes engine in the world’s most demanding kitchens, including long-term partners like McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, KFC, and Wendy’s. We’re 1,000+ employee-owners who thrive by living a People First mission: to support employees in becoming the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.

We recently completed the largest expansion in our history with the addition of 150,000 square feet on our Eaton campus. This expansion drives development of the world’s most reliable, easy-to-use equipment with an innovative new space for global research and development. We have several collaborative spaces for our project teams, a dedicated electrical engineering lab for our hardware and software engineers, a full model shop for rapid prototyping, and a brand-new test lab that has 300 feet of hood space to test new equipment on our product roadmap. On top of that, we have a new state-of-the-art kitchen for our food science group to meet with our customers, understand what they need, and then dial in our equipment to help them make legendary menu items.

Henny Penny is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), marital status, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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