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MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. The Vice President of Production Operations is a strategic executive leader responsible for ensuring the company is fully ready to deliver on production commitments customers trust them to fulfill.
This role owns the end-to-end operational readiness framework spanning people, processes, technology, and supply chain, driving flawless execution across all customer production programs. The VP will build and lead a high-performing operations organization capable of scaling with business growth while consistently meeting customer expectations for quality, delivery, and responsiveness.
Key responsibilities include defining and owning the operational readiness framework that ensures MISUMI Americas can fulfill customer production programs at scale. The role requires working closely with cross-functional leadership across Sales, Technology, Operations, Engineering, Finance, and Quality to ensure production service offerings achieve strong product-market fit and are operationally deliverable at launch. The VP will develop and execute a multi-year operations strategy aligned with company growth targets and customer commitments, and establish clear operational KPIs, dashboards, and governance rhythms.
The role leads end-to-end execution of customer production programs from intake through delivery, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-quality fulfillment. The VP serves as the senior operational escalation point for complex or high-priority programs, resolving bottlenecks and protecting delivery commitments. They will partner with the VP of Program Management to implement program management standards and build a launch partner development production system optimized for speed, reproducibility, and reliability.
People leadership is critical: the VP partners with Regional General Managers to build, develop, and inspire a world-class production operations team including operations managers, program managers, supply chain leads, and technical staff. They define org structure, roles, and workforce planning strategies while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centricity.
The role champions lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, or equivalent operational excellence methodologies to drive efficiency and improve quality. The VP identifies systemic process gaps, leads cross-functional improvement initiatives, and establishes change management practices. They build a data-driven decision-making culture with rigorous use of metrics, root cause analysis, and corrective action processes, championing pragmatic use of AI and advanced analytics.
Technology partnership is essential: the VP works with IT and digital transformation teams to evaluate, implement, and optimize operational technology including ERP, WMS, MES, and analytics platforms. The role is nominally remote but requires frequent travel (25–40%) to supply regions (India, China, Mexico, Japan, US), customer locations, and MISUMI Americas operational hubs.
