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Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We are passionate about achieving results and have fun winning as a team!

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!  We currently have an opportunity for an Automation Transformation Manager at our corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

Your Role:

The Automation Transformation Manager leads enterprise-wide automation initiatives that drive process efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. This role is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and implementing automation opportunities — including robotic process automation (RPA), workflow digitization, AI/ML solutions, and system integration. The Manager partners closely with business units, IT, and data teams to deliver measurable business outcomes through strategic automation.

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

• Strategy & Leadership: Develop and execute the organization’s automation transformation roadmap, aligned with overall business and digital strategies.
• Opportunity Identification: Collaborate with business leaders to assess current processes, identify automation candidates, and quantify potential savings and efficiency gains.
• Program Management: Lead the planning, prioritization, and execution of automation projects across multiple functions using structured methodologies.
• Technology Implementation: Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of automation solutions, ensuring scalability, compliance, and sustainability.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with business process owners to ensure automation initiatives meet functional needs and deliver expected outcomes.
• Governance & Standards: Establish and maintain best practices for automation development, documentation, and lifecycle management.
• Change Management: Drive adoption of automation solutions by managing communication, training, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Vendor & Tool Management: Evaluate and manage relationships with automation technology providers (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Power Automate).
• Performance Tracking: Define KPIs and measure impact on cost savings, process efficiency, error reduction, and cycle time improvements.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Explore emerging automation trends such as intelligent document processing, generative AI, and hyper automation to expand capabilities.

You will love it here if…

• You put safety first, always
• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

We need you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in process improvement, automation, or digital transformation leadership roles.
• Proven success managing large-scale automation or RPA programs across multiple business units.
• Up to 25% travel required
• Hands-on experience with automation platforms such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, or Microsoft Power Platform.
• Knowledge of process mining tools (e.g., Celonis, ABBYY Timeline) and workflow technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud-based solutions, APIs, and system integrations.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive organizational change.
• Results-oriented mindset focused on measurable business impact.

Icing on the cake:

• Master’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or other process optimization methodologies (certification preferred).
• Understanding of AI/ML, OCR, and data analytics technologies is a plus.

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Apply today to join a fast-growing innovative company!

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Local candidates only, no relocation assistance available

Join Reynolds Consumer Products and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!

For applicants or employees who are disabled or require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, you may request assistance by emailing us at Recruitment@ReynoldsBrands.com.

No recruiter calls or emails please.

RCP affords equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, disability status, sex, marital status, protected veteran status, pregnancy, national origin, genetics, genetic information, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. RCP conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.