Global Bd Excellence Sr Manager

Job Description Summary

Job Description

I.General Function

This position represents a fantastic opportunity for a talented, highly motivated, and positive individual to become a proactive member of BD’s global Operational Excellence (OPEX) community.

Reporting directly to the Associate Director Global BD Excellence, the Global BD Excellence Senior Manager - Factory Flow will be passionate about creating a culture of operational and customer excellence, implementing change, and driving Continuous Improvement (CI) across the network through the BD Excellence program.

II.Main Responsibilities

1.Key tasks and strategic accountability:

- Coach factory teams, with regards to BD Excellence, with focus on external and internal benchmarking. Develop and mentor zero loss mindset across critical areas to optimize quality, delivery and cost while improving safety.
- Develop and grow capability through components and component teams to establish the fundamentals of excellence in safety, quality, and reliability. Coach and guide sites to ensure focus of resources and time on priorities.
- Coordinate BD Excellence components deployment. Continue to drive BD Excellence capability development through deployment of progressively advanced aspects of component methodologies. Achieve long term CI objectives through cross functional alignment of all resources toward shared goals.
- Develop and grow BD Excellence capability to help the site deliver a multi-year cost-to-win (CtW) program. Focus on building capability that improves problem solving, increases loss awareness, and empowers teams to eliminate factory-loss in an impactful, efficient, and sustainable way.
- Coaches associates on continuous improvement methodologies within manufacturing areas, with particular focus on Lean Workplace and Factory Flow component.
- Support plant BD Excellence Manager, BD Excellence Engineer, Logistics Engineer and Factory Flow / Lean Workplace component Leader in the definition of the Factory Flow and Lean Workplace Roadmap, tracking KPI and realize saving in Internal Logistics and Labor Productivity framework.
- Define the Roadmap of the Lean Workplace and Factory Flow component.
- Facilitate and/or lead specific breakthrough Kaizen events and /or bootcamp to enable targeted performance improvement and solution realization.
- On site coaching and assessments of the kaizen activities. Create governance to follow up the project and saving status.
- Help site leadership teams create strategic vision, ensure alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators (KPIs’) top down and bottom up.
- Support Lean Flow centers-of-excellence (COEs). Help develop standards and best practices. Optimize methodologies for different manufacturing technologies. Develop and leverage best practices, drive best practice development and adoption. Ensure deploying sites establish and maintain appropriate component KPIs, maintain and promote visibility of global component impact. Support maturity assessment program across multiple business units.
- Owns and drives the process to collaborate with the BD Excellence Business Units and other functional departments (GIE and TGS) to generate projects, solutions and best practices.
- Proactively leads multiple teams and projects to the desired results. Prioritizes cost savings projects. Manages to savings and timeline completion.
- Collaborate in the development and implementation of a strategic plan for continuous improvement in Factory Flow (Internal Logistic) and Lean Workplace.
- Serves as a champion to overcome barriers by addressing issues promptly. Does not hesitate to challenge the status quo in search of opportunities that help the business provide cost effective solution to the customer.
- Report progress on UPH, savings, etc. for BD Excellence global reporting and visibility.

2.Sphere of influence
- Influences development and drives execution of business unit operating plans
- Contributes to the development of strategy
- May participate as member of factory leadership team
- Provides some input into key business decisions and resource plan
- May represent company to external organizations.
- Executes responsibilities with a large degree of autonomy requiring mínimal day-to-day oversight by immediate supervisor.

3.Impact on results
- Degree of Accountability:

- Accountable for the achievement of key operational goals. Accountable for achievement of Global BD Excellence goals including capability development to achieve sustained SQDC performance improvement.
- Plays critical role in key projects, initiatives, and breakthrough events, e.g., drive UPH with purpose.
- Erroneous decisions may result in considerable expenditure of human capital and budgeted resources.
- Financial Impact:

- Has influence on the key drivers for profit, loss, and product
- Has significant impact on cost and productivity of the sites where she/he needs to operate
- Manages projects budget in collaboration with the sites.
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