Global BD Excellence Senior Manager - Factory Flow

BD Nogales Norte; San Giuliano Milanese; In loco; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading global healthcare company in San Giuliano Milanese is seeking a Global BD Excellence Senior Manager to drive operational and customer excellence through Continuous Improvement methodologies. The role involves coaching teams, coordinating resources, and fostering a culture of excellence across various manufacturing domains. Candidates should have a background in Lean/Six Sigma, a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, and substantial experience in manufacturing leadership. Travel up to 70% is expected.

Servizi

Career development opportunities

Inclusive, growth-centered culture

Competenze

• Minimum 7 years manufacturing experience.
• Six sigma black belt certification preferred.
• Excellent understanding of operational excellence and customer service.

Mansioni

• Coach factory teams in BD Excellence.
• Develop and grow capability to establish excellence fundamentals.
• Coordinate BD Excellence components deployment.

Conoscenze

Lean and Six Sigma knowledge

Project management

Problem solving expertise

Excellent communication

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Strumenti

5S

Kanban Methodology

AGV and AMR systems

Descrizione del lavoro

Global BD Excellence Senior Manager - Factory Flow

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.

This strong operational excellence and continuous improvement identity will be created through the systematic application of LEAN production and CI principles, methodologies, and associated tools, to ensure sustainable optimization of performance in the areas of quality, delivery, and cost, whilst improving safety.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• Previous experience in implementing, and strong knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma business systems. Six sigma black belt certification preferred.
• Demonstrated passion for safety, customer centricity and operational excellence.
• Minimum 7 years manufacturing experience. Preferred leadership experience in a plant.
• Excellent understanding of the interaction between operational excellence and customer service.
• Excellent and effective verbal and written communication skills with people at all levels.
• Strong track record in project or program management.
• Experience of working in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment.
• Business acumen and ability to display the linkage between projects and desired business results.
• Minimum 5‑years’ experience operating a production system. Certified or recognized as a Production System practitioner.
• BD Excellence Factory Flow and Lean Workplace Knowledge: Time study knowledge (included 3M and Golden Zone); Mizusumashi and Internal Logistic Flows; Supermarket implementation; Call off systems knowledge; Kanban Methodology, 5S and 5T.
• Basic Smart Automation Knowledge: Karakuris, AGV, AMR, Palletization, Automatic Warehousing systems, etc…
• Demonstrates expertise in problem solving, as well as training and coaching others.

About Yourself

• Flexible and able to travel. Expected travel up to 70%
• Language: Fluent English mandatory, Spanish is a plus.
• Team Player
• Ability to influence without authority
• Leadership and Strategic thinking
• Working with highly matrixed organization / Organizational savvy
• Building effective transversal team and network
• Managing Complexity and diversity / Adaptability
• Financial acumen
• Ability to translate business objectives into tactical activities for the plant
• Results Oriented

Why join us?

A career at BD means learning and working alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. You will have the opportunity to help shape the trajectory of BD while leaving a legacy at the same time.

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.

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