Execution/Results Driven
Sets high goals and delivers results that consistently increase individual and organizational performance.
- Approaches challenging tasks with a "can-do" attitude.
- Demonstrates personal drive to consistently deliver increasing levels of performance.
- Ability to prioritize.
- Persists in the face of obstacles, challenges or setbacks.
- Ability to focus self and team on solutions.
- Demonstrates a strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done.
- Holds oneself accountable. Holds individuals or teams accountable.
Entrepreneurial
Thinks beyond today, identifies and implements value-added and innovative actions and strategies.
- Identifies and drives process improvements that result in reduced staff levels and bureaucracy while improving efficiencies and quality metrics in quantifiable ways.
- Looks for and champions opportunities for improvement.
- Demonstrates a willingness to take calculated risks to achieve business goals.
- Removes internal obstacles and bureaucracy to achieve the organization’s goals.
- Uses the profit center model to drive growth and differentiation in the market.
- Leaders: Ability to energize a team to follow his or her vision for the business.
- Leaders: Ability to formulate and communicate a “Sensient strategy” to various levels in an organization.
Develops self and others
Focuses on self-development and on developing others.
- Delegates responsibility and work to others to help them develop their capabilities.
- Expresses confidence in others' ability to be successful.
- Demonstrates effective coaching skills. Provides honest, specific and objective feedback to employees.
- Challenges oneself to learn and develop.
- Creates development experiences and assignments for others.
- Ability to fail quickly and learn from mistakes.
- Leaders: Manages succession plan for key positions by hiring promotable staff with transferable skills.
- Leaders: Develops staff through training and experiential opportunities to increase his/her readiness to be promoted.
Customer Focus (Internal and External)
Understands internal and external customer requirements. Anticipates and exceeds the needs of customers. Develops value added customer solutions.
- Integrates and communicates Sensient’s quality policy and commitment to proactively prevent issues.
- Follows through on customer commitments.
- Integrates customer needs and expectations into the development and delivery of new services or products.
- Improves or eliminates internal problems that are affecting the customer experience.
- Proactively identifies shares knowledge across business units.
- Establishes and uses feedback systems to meet customer requirements and expectations.
- Continuously seeks to improve the quality of services, products and processes.
- Always conducts himself or herself positively and professionally with customers. Does not argue with customers or dismiss their concerns. Apologizes when appropriate.
Collaboration
Shows a high degree of Team Commitment.
- Promotes collaboration and works cooperatively with others to achieve shared goals.
- Takes action to further the interests of the team - or the organization - above their own.
- Makes positive contributions to develop the climate required for excellent team performance.
- Listens and responds to other team members' ideas. Encourages others to make decisions. Supports organizational decisions.
- Treats others in an accepting, respectful manner regardless of culture or background.
Business Acumen
Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of markets, competitors and business model or key principles in one’s functional area. Adept at financial and other management principles and practices.
- Makes business decisions that are financially sound and consistent with the Company’s operating philosophy.
- Subject matter expert in respective discipline or function.
- Uses understanding of markets to improve competitiveness, generate profit, and achieve growth.
- Helps others to understand supplier and customer markets, business risks, opportunities and competitors.
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