Yurij Wowczuk
Senior Global Operations and New Product Development leader with a track record for delivering impact through continuous improvement, change management, and putting people first.
- Role
- Partner at Necessity Ventures
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yurij Wowczuk
I am an accomplished senior leader with a proven track record for achieving success in revenue, profit, and business growth objectives. An operations executive with broad-based global expertise leading turnarounds, managing change, developing and deploying effective business growth strategies, and launching continuous process improvement plans. I thrive on challenging opportunities to develop teams of high-performance employees, steer strategic initiatives resulting in bottom-line performance improvements, implementing lean/operational excellence methodologies, and creating process improvements. I excel at applying such management approaches in manufacturing, new product development, sales/marketing/new business development, and other functions. Specialties: – Capability Building– Asset Maintenance & Reliability Management– New Market Development– Logistics Management– Supplier Development– Customer Technical Services– Process Improvement– Cost Reduction Strategies– Quality Systems Development– Capacity Enhancement– P&L Management– New Product Development- Environmental/Health/Safety-ESG-M&A (Mergers & Aquisitions)
Experience
Partner
Feb 2023 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US
Education
University of Pittsburgh
BA, Economics
1990 — 1994
Harvard University
Economics and Ukrainian Studies
Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) (studies only), Economics/Ukrainian Language & Literature
1992 — 1993
Skills
- 5s
- Manufacturing
- Kanban
- Capability Building
- Toyota Production System
- Iso Standards
- Quality Management
- Product Development
- Analysis
- Sales Management
- Process Engineering
- Six Sigma
- Manufacturing Operations
- Continuous Improvement
- P&L Management
- Strategic Planning
- Program Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Automotive
- Strategic Sourcing
- Product Life Cycle
- Management
- Procurement
- Supply Chain
- Purchasing
- Value Stream Mapping
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Process Improvement
- Dmaic
- Operational Excellence
- Change Management
- Logistics Management
- Kaizen
- Iso
- Business Process Improvement
- Capital Budgeting
- Building Organizational Capability
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Engineering
- Business Development
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