Specialist, Continuous Improvement Senior

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Job Title: Specialist, Continuous Improvement Senior
Location: Inver Grove Heights, MN, Midwest United States, USA

Company: CHS Inc.
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

Summary

The Finance Continuous Improvement Specialist is responsible for driving operational excellence by enabling our finance shared service teams to continuously enhance processes, eliminate inefficiencies, and deliver lasting value to both customers and stakeholders. A critical aspect of this role includes facilitating portfolio management to ensure strategic alignment, optimizing resource allocation, and driving timely project delivery.

Responsibilities

Lead continuous improvement projects with medium risk and complexity. Determine scope, budget, timeframes, develop the strategy for project execution, form teams, assign tasks, manage resources and issues.
Optimize enterprise performance by partnering with business leaders across the finance organization to define direction and implement changes to become best in class.
Manage the portfolio of improvement efforts including intake, prioritization, progress tracking, and communication.
Drive the Lean Continuous Improvement process improvement culture across the enterprise, train, coach and mentor the Lean mindset, skillset and toolset.
Provide mentoring and leadership to ensure a common language and approach to problem solving. Develop and lead the Enterprise Lean training programs.
Identify critical success factors, metrics and KPIs, and develop/establish and track reporting metrics to identify future changes required to drive improvement.
Solve unique problems that have broad impact on the enterprise.
Up to 10% travel for meetings and training.
Perform other responsibilities as needed or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

High School diploma or GED
4+ years of experience in Continuous Improvement (Identifying Waste, Improving Processes, Using A3’s)

Additional Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or related field
4+ years of experience in a finance shared service function (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Grain Settlements)
Highly self-motivated with a proven ability to work independently and take initiative without direct supervision
Strong organization and planning skills, including the ability to direct and prioritize multiple complex projects to completion within deadlines
Demonstrated ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization and facilitate collaboration across business departments and functions to deliver desired program outcomes
Basic understanding of root cause analysis and process improvement concepts, methods, and techniques
Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
Demonstrated ability in change management in support of projects and transformation efforts
Strong written, verbal, communication skills
Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse. #LI-WB1

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.

Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com ; to verify that the communication is from CHS.

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Job Post Date: 08/16/25