Champions / Executive Leadership
- Monitors the external and internal factors affecting the business
- Defines business strategy
- Communicates the plan for business success
- Champions Lean Six Sigma vision
- Establishes improvement priorities and targets
- Provides and aligns resources (Sponsors, Black Belts / Green Belts), ensures cross functional collaboration
- Establishes accountability for results
- Role modeling appropriate behaviors, change leader
- Integrates Lean Six Sigma into business direction & plan
- Markets Lean Six Sigma program and results
Process Owners
- Assists in identifying potential Lean Six Sigma projects
- Approves and supports projects
- Provides resources to serve as team members and subject mater experts (SMEs) on projects
- Approves changes in project scope and removes barriers
- Owns the solution delivered by the Lean Six Sigma project team
- Responsible for supporting implementation of improvement actions
Project Sponsors
- Provides and aligns resources (Black Belts / Green Belts, Team Members), ensures cross functional collaboration
- Establishes improvement priorities, targets and accountability for results
- Role modeling appropriate behaviors, change leader
- Ensures project is aligned with department and strategic objectives
- Approves all phases of Lean Six Sigma projects
- Ensures project deliverables are being maintained and project is on time and on budget
- Approves changes in scope of the Lean Six Sigma project, removes barriers
- Markets Lean Six Sigma program and results
Master Black Belt
- Part time or full time position
- Provides expertise on Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques, including project management and change management
- Provides strategic direction to leadership and project team
- Identifies Lean Six Sigma projects critical to achieving business goals
- Is ultimately accountable for project success
- Serves as main champion during change implementation
- Identifies, trains, coaches and evaluates Black Belts / Green Belts and Team Members
- Ensures cross functional & cross team collaboration
- Acts as Lean Six Sigma advisor to Champions, Sponsors and Process Owners
Black Belt
- Full time position
- Provides direction and leadership for project team, manages interproject communications
- Delivers results through application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies
- Provides skills training when needed
- Accountable for reporting project progress and coordinating communication to project stakeholders
- Maintains all documentation from project, prepares and submits deliverables
- Manages implementation of solutions, ensures transition of improved process to the business
- Acts as a change catalyst
Green Belt
- Part time position
- Provides direction and leadership for project team, manages interproject communications
- Delivers results through application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies
- Provides skills training when needed
- Accountable for reporting project progress and coordinating communication to project stakeholders
- Maintains all documentation from project, prepares and submits deliverables
- Manages implementation of solutions, ensures transition of improved process to the business
- Acts as a change catalyst
Project Team Members
- Part time position
- Team player in application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies
- Provides expertise and feedback to the project team
- Is responsible for tasks within the team action plan
- Delivers regular updates to team on status of action steps
- Acts as a change catalyst
Subject Matter Experts (SME)
- As needed position
- Provides subject matter expertise and feedback to the project team
- Acts as a change catalyst
Finance Analysts (also a SME)
- Part time role
- Responsible for providing financial support to Lean Six Sigma deployment
- Provides standard, consistent guidelines for Lean Six Sigma project valuation
- Provides financial savings forecast for potential Lean Six Sigma projects
- Estimate project savings during the Lean Six Sigma project execution
- Track / validate actual project savings after project closure
To learn more:
Lean Six Sigma White Belt Certification
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
Master Black Belt Certification
