Snr. Manager Bd Excellence

**Job Description Summary**: Job Summary:
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 Plant Manager, the BD Excellence Factory Manager will be passionate about creating a culture of operational and customer excellence, implementing changes, and driving Continuous Improvement (CI) across the network through the BD Excellence program.
sustainable optimization of performance in the areas of quality, delivery, and cost, whilst improving safety.
This position also reports indirectly (dotted line) to the BD Excellence Business Unit Leader, who will provide additional oversight and guidance to the incumbent, during the execution of his/her work.

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**Job Responsibilities: (Primary Duties, Roles, and/or Authorities)**

Key tasks and strategic accountability:

- Lead strategy development and deployment (SDD). Ensure strategic alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators (KPIs’) top down and bottom up. Support site leadership team in creating strategic vision of improvement goals, site master plan (depl oyment roadmap and maturity expectations based on priorities) and governance process across relevant BD Excellence components.
- Partner with plant Leadership team and Business Unit Managers / Leader to co-develop and execute the plant’s implementation of the BD Excellence and Cost to Win plan /budget.
- Coach the plant leadership team, 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 site 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.
- Teach, coach, and demonstrate proficiency in BD Excellence concepts and systematic approach, including strategy development & deployment (SDD), core components, Zero Loss mindset and all related methodologies / tools. Lead and facilitate breakthrough Kaizen events.
- Lead the Focused Improvement component team. Develop and grow problem solving capability at all levels. Support collaboration within the site leadership team to generate, sustain, and deliver a multi - year Cost to Win (CTW) portfolio, oversee optimization of the site loss landscape.
- Coordinate activity of component teams and focused improvement project teams to eliminate loss, according to strategic goals. Meet or exceed operational (factory -loss) CtW (Cost to Win) goals through leading and /or supporting Focused Improvement team savings projects driven by loss awareness and maturing loss landscape.
- 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.
- In support of strategic goals, coordinate the development and implementation of factory-loss improvement objectives. Provide information to the site finance team to enable financial reporting.
- Create and manage CI budget. Immediate supervisor of BD Excellence Factory Engineers.
- Report progress on OEE, savings, etc. for BD Excellence global reporting and visibility

Sphere of influence
- Serve on plant leadership team.
- Provides input into key plant decisions and resource planning.
- May represent company to external organizations.
- Executes responsibilities with a large degree of autonomy requiring mínimal day-to-day oversight by immediate supervisor.

Impact on results
Degree of Accountability:

- Accountable for the achievement of key operational goals, including the operational (factory -loss) element of cost-to-win. Accountable for achievement of OPEX goals including BD EXCELLENCE capability development to achieve sustained SQDC performance improvement.
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