Operational Excellence Manager

#2428 Manager Operational Excellence

Pharmaceutical Company

The Operations Excellence Manager coordinates with a variety of business units to develop, test and refine business processes and practices to provide the site and business unit with a competitive advantage within a pharmaceutical environment. This role must be able to engage with all levels of technology operation teams, engineering, business process owners and management to innovate and implement processes to support business growth. The goal is to maximize value through efficient systems and free up a manager’s time to focus on the business.

This role is responsible for site-wide process design, using data and metrics to drive continuous improvement and optimization efforts by reducing waste and inefficiencies, but must coordinate efforts across sites within the business unit.

Responsibilities:

• Designs and implement changes to processes that improve results and reduce cost and eliminate waste.
• Coordinates with a variety of business units to develop, test, and refine business processes / practices.
• Leverages data to drive continuous improvement in areas such as productivity, quality, customer service, and sales.
• Teach lessons learned and key findings to departments with recommendations for changes and updates for training.
• Creates a roadmap for tools and technology needed to ensure improvement in processes.
• Proactively address problem areas and improve efficiency.
• Streamlines processed to allow for expansion.

Qualifications

• Minimally a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field from a four-year college or university strongly preferred; and 3 years related experience within a pharmaceutical industry, nutraceutical, over-the-counter or consumer goods.
• Six Sigma/Lean experience a plus.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, supply chain and sales and operations.