VES Leader, Fundamentals LATAM

Location: Hybrid, based at Videojet’s São Paulo, Brazil (Vila Gertrudes) office, with periodic visits to the Extrema (MG) manufacturing site and approximately 50% travel across LATAM.

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.

• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.

• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.

• Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.

• Collaborating with a vibrant, inclusive, global team.

• Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.

• Contributing to a brighter, safer, more sustainable future.

It’s all possible with a role at Videojet, a Veralto company. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week. After all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions. Videojet’s technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces.

As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll work with products that make an everyday impact on the world around you—and along the way, you’ll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.

Learn about our leading portfolio of innovative products here!

We offer:

• Flexible working hours

• Professional onboarding and training options

• Powerful team looking forward to working with you

• Career coaching and development opportunities

• Health benefits

Reporting to the Sr. Director, Veralto Enterprise System (VES) Americas, the VES Leader, Fundamentals LATAM is responsible for owning the VES fundamentals processes to support the growth and development of the VES culture across Videojet in LATAM to achieve Policy Deployment (PD) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets. This position will provide coaching and training to various function leaders and associates to enable process improvements and sustainment of stronger results using VES tools. The VES Leader, Fundamentals serves as the key thought partner, will leverage VES fundamentals standard work, and will be responsible for deployment and sustainment of best practices.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Drive targeted, sustainable improvement in VES key performance indicators (KPIs) including kaizen sustainment, certified practitioner funnel, and VES culture.

• Lead and execute the daily implementation of VES processes across LATAM, with an emphasis on Operations and Service functions.

• Champion the use of problem solving and partner to identify which VES tool must be applied and when.

• Provide coaching and guidance for Daily Management, Visual Project Management, and Growth Rooms.

• Audit existing processes and systems to determine actions required for improvements at Gemba.

• Regularly review performance and partner with senior leaders to define short-term and long-term VES strategies.

• Support in the planning, facilitation, implementation, and sustainment of kaizen activities.

• Guide pre-work and sustainment of the Kaizen process and provide training on key VES Tools (Kaizen, PSP, Daily Management, etc.).

• Ensure and conduct regular reviews of kaizen charter creation, review, approval, and pre-work that drive successful kaizen preparation and kaizen sustainment.

• Travel approximately 50% of the time across Latin America, supporting Videojet sites throughout the region.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience deploying continuous improvement and/or VES processes, with a focus on fundamentals (PSP, VMDM, SW).

• Demonstrated experience leading continuous improvement initiatives in manufacturing, operations, service, or related environments.

• Proven experience facilitating and sustaining kaizen events and deploying Daily Management systems.

• Experience driving organizational change management and continuous improvement programs across multiple functions and locations.

• Great computer skills (data analysis, word processing, spreadsheets, graphics, statistical tools).

• Fluency in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

• Ability to work from Videojet’s São Paulo office, travel to manufacturing sites, and travel approximately 50% across LATAM.

Videojet is proud to be part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™ and building rewarding careers along the way.