Operational Excellence Associate Director
Work Your Magic with us! Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your Role
The site OE will maintain an overview, understanding of and insight into site performances. He / she will promote a culture of transparency, clearly identify and communicate when problems or potential risks arise, and proactively support the identification for solutions in a results oriented manner. The site OE is responsible for identifying, gaining approval for, and driving strategic advancements within the site and the global strategy. These initiatives will be formalized in a site roadmap. Completion within timelines, budgets and targets will be ensured. Will promote a Continuous Improvement mindset on site fostering standardization and implementing other lean tools by means of the Global Production and Supply System.
The site OE will role model the development of leadership behaviors by coaching the organization, including the site director, leadership team and mid management in an independently bold manner; reinforcing performance dialogues, feedback and gemba cultures as the lean culture in the site; providing trainings based around lean knowledge and mindset in order to develop change agents, management and other site employees; leading the site transformation toward a leaner and more efficient operating model.
Who You Are
* Lean Six Sigma (better if Black Belt)
* Root cause analysis
* Statistics
* LEAN manufacturing focused on reducing WIPs in the processes, bottleneck and increasing yields/OEE/Productivity
What we offer:
We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Management and Manufacturing
* Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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Location: Modugno, Apulia, Italy.
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