Operational Excellence Manager
Company Summary: This pharmaceutical and bio-technology company is looking for an Operational Excellence Manager to join their team. This global company has over 50,000 employees and has plans to hire over 400 new employees to their team in 2021. This company is a major provider to the life sciences industry, specifically with biopharma, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. This role would be for an Operational Excellence Manager who would play a key role in leading the integrated supply chain operations team within their Life Science realm.
The Operational Excellence Manager will have the following responsibilities:
- Kick-starting and leading Lean and Six Sigma initiatives, with the goal of improving performance
- Working with cite-leaders to create and implement multi-year CI plans
- Leading workshops that build proficiency within the company, across multiple cites
- Conducting and implementing major process improvement projects, as well as costs savings projects
- Leading Kaizens, Gemba walks, and completing value stream mapping
The Operational Excellence Manager will have the following qualifications:
- 5 to 7 years of experience in either operations, engineering or a project leadership role, along with a bachelor's degree
- Preferred to have 3 or more years of experience with supply chain, logistics or distribution
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt OR Master Black Belt combined with a fair amount of management skill would be preferred
- Proven history of implementing a breadth of tools or approaches that have improved operational performance, such as 5S, visual management or value stream mapping
Benefits & Perks:
- Offers health & well-being Benefits as well as retirement planning
- Company offers opportunities to their employees to try new things, grow their careers, and seek new opportunities within the company
- Company also believes in allowing their employees to be independent
