Continuous Improvement Analyst

Job Description Summary

How about belonging to a leading global medical technology company that acts to advance the world of health?

BD is one of the largest medical technology companies in the world. We have a unique position in the market with solutions to improve disease management and care management, customer support, health professionals and patients in improving clinical practice. Globally, we are more than 65,000 employees passionate about what we do and we are committed to advance the world of health with solutions from diagnosis to treatment.

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Shared Service Center (SSC) - BD has Shared Services Centers around the world, SSCs use platforms and tools to process information in a standardized way with continuous improvement and sharing best practices. In this way it allows to organize the activities, with the objective of providing conditions to each local entity to focus its resources on the operations that the company needs in this new stage of growth.

Continuous Improvement Analyst

Drive projects and initiatives with high impact to the business, exploring methods and tools from Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, Design Thinking and Change Management. Create and share continuous improvement vision, working for operations and processes optimization in Latin America Supply Chain. Demonstrate technologies and systems knowledge, as well as experience for developing metrics, promoting savings, increasing efficiency and sharing best practices across all business functions, bringing end-to-end visibility and approach to initiatives.

**Job Description**:
Key Job Responsibilities:

- Work with executives and business leaders to develop project deployment strategy, implement change management approach, goals and priorities.
- Lead and support execution of complex long-term projects for Supply Chain functions in the region, managing resources, budget and timing to meet the annual strategic objectives for all functions such as Customer Service, Planning/Warehouses, Logistics and Foreign Trade.
- Lead and support process development, deployment and improvement to enhance business capabilities to achieve desired functional performance.
- Manage Supply Chain projects portfolio to ensure strategic priorities are aligned with annual basis initiatives.
- Have a growth mindset to incorporate internal and external best practices (share and re-apply) to break paradigms in the identification of opportunity areas and solution definition.
- Contribute to the Global Optimization Team identifying opportunities for improvement and monitoring/reporting risks to Leadership Team in Latin America.
- Manage savings portfolio from Supply Chain functions, coordinating meetings with local and regional teams, establishing execution plans and risks reports.
- Explore forums to share good practices between countries and external consultants to promote excellence and innovation, standardizing, integrating and developing continuous improvement culture in all Supply Chain and other BUs associates.

Basic Required:

- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution.
- Demonstrated skills on Lean, Six Sigma, Design Thinking, Agile or similar Continuous Improvement and Innovation methodologies.
- Analytical and Quantitative skills.
- Business Acumen or experience in Supply Chain functions.
- Understanding of PMO skills.
- Ability to simplify strategy into actions with a strong focus on execution.
- Demonstrated ability to make decisions effectively and create focus.
- Self-motivated and ability to motivate others to achieve results.
- Strong oral, writing and presentation skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills such as self-initiation.
- Experience using statistical and Business Intelligence software tools, such as Tableau, Minitab, JMP, Power BI and other similar tools.

Basic Preferred:

- 2-3 years of experience in supply chain operations: Planning, Customer Service, Warehouses, Transportation or Foreign Trade.
- 3-5 years of experience managing projects or initiatives for continuous improvement and/or optimization of Supply Chain processes.
- SAP, Nodum and/or experience in other ERPs.
- Preferred Finance, Statistical, Engineering, Marketing or Business Administration background.
- Master's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent experience
- Prior Lean Six Sigma experience implementing Lean thinking in business processes.
- Experience conducting Kaizen events, deploying toolsets such as VSM, Standard Work, VOC, QFD.
- Successfully led 2 or more continuous improvement projects resulting in meaningful process improvements or savings.
- Ability to build and promote organizational change management initiatives.
- Ability to manage small to mid-size project teams including hosting of workshops and Kaizen events.
- Certification as Green or Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking, Agile or similar.

Primary Work Location

MEX Mexico City - Lomas de Chapultepec

Additional Locations

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