Technical Problem Solving Leader

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General Mills is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of consumer foods products, with annual worldwide net sales of more than $12 billion. Our global brand portfolio includes Cheerios, Wheaties, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Yoplait, Green Giant, Old El Paso, Pop-Secret, Chex, Totino's, Progresso, and more. We also have more than 100 U.S. consumer brands, more than 30 of which generate annual retail sales in excess of $100 million. General Mills is also a leader in the bakeries and foodservice business as a major supplier of baking and other food products to the foodservice and commercial baking industries.

Qualifications:

• The applicant should have a BS or MS degree in science or engineering with 10+ years of experience in Consumer Packaged Goods or related industries.
• Demonstrated skills in developing a new initiative; creating a compelling vision, actionable strategies and effective implementation.
• Experienced in technical leadership, analytical and creative technical problem solving, adaptability, decision making, communications, and team dynamics.
• Demonstrated ability to align and influence both working team and the senior leadership team.
• Experienced Facilitator.
• Awareness of widely-used technical problem solving strategies, methods, and tools.
• Linked to an established network of internal and external technical problem solving subject matter (content) and process experts.
• Good computer skills utilizing office and project management tools are also valuable.

Accountabilities:

• Create and implement a technical problem solving catalyst team for the R&D community.
  • Vision, Strategy and Tactics
  • Team Formation and Leadership; recruit, train, and retain technical problem solving team members.
  • Budget management
  • Client development strategy and implementation
  • Partnership development across other key initiatives.
• Create the R&D's custom technical problem solving approach.
  • Framework development
    
    
    • Proposals (scope)
    • Custom solution design (problem, solution, team, context)
    • Stakeholder alignment
    • Cross divisional/functional solution finding
    • Effective external challenge statements to enable optimal solution finding
    • Superior execution

  • Tool assessment and selection

• Develop an implementation plan for deploying technical problem solving within R&D.
  • Design facilitation, consulting, and training strategies to apply technical problem solving to R&D problems.
  • Create team assignments (technical problem solving team members and Client team) to support implementation strategies.
  • Participate in and lead a program from initial phase to full deployment.

• Lead Technical Problem Solving External Benchmarking initiative to accelerate learning curve.
• Other duties as assigned.
  

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