Senior Manager, Continuous Improvement

Job Description

This position is a key leader of a regional lean business transformation team, driving an end-to-end analysis of a functional Business Operations & performance measures, identifying opportunities for profitable growth, and driving business transformation leveraging Lean, specifically focused on Continuous Improvement (CI), system thinking, and big data analytics techniques (adopting AI). Additionally, this leadership role requires operational experience in business financials, functions, and demonstrated ability to collaboratively work functions in order to drive change.

This is a Hybrid scheduled position at our Wood Dale Facility in IL. (3 days onsite and 2 days work from home)

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Title:

Senior Manager, Business Transformation

Pay Range: $125,000 - $155,000/ year, 15% Bonus

Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. Successful candidates may be eligible to receive annual performance bonus compensation.

Benefits Information:

We are proud to offer best-in-class benefits and programs to support employees and their families in living healthy, happy lives. Our pay and benefit plans have been designed to promote employee health in all respects – physical, financial, and developmental. Depending on whether it is a part-time or full-time position, some of the benefits offered may include:

• Medical/Prescription Drugs
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Supplemental Health Plans
• 401(k) Plan – Company match dollar-for-dollar up to 5%
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Dependent Life Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability buy-up
• Blueprint for Wellness
• Emotional Well-Being Resources
• Educational Assistance
• Paid time off / Health Time

• Implement the Lean Business System including standard work, daily management, problem-solving cadence, and kaizen roadmaps.
• Owns the learning, application, and adoption of Lean principles and practices with the goal of building localized self-sufficiency, sustainability, and scalability of improvement efforts.
• Execute strategic lean transformation projects, and the operational execution that results in large-scale improvement across designated functions and businesses.
• Drives cultural change shift from dashboards and analytics towards actions and results.
• Drives the use of big data analytics tools (adopting AI) to tackle system level problems.
• Demonstrated understanding of continuous improvement, process management, or system thinking (value stream thinking).
• Proven track record in facilitating cross functional discussions, targeted workshops and Kaizens to achieve strategic & operational objectives.
• General knowledge of Hoshin and breakthrough planning.
• Demonstrates expertise in business transformation projects using program management principles and tools, and has a track record of success leading and influencing at the mid to senior leadership level without direct authority in driving change,
• Captures, quantifies, and reapplies best-in-class practices within a regional function such as laboratories, Logistics or Patient Services.
• Acts as a change agent to guide teams toward success.
• Works with local team members to identify and prioritize continuous improvement opportunities for a regional functional business.
  
  Works with functional and site leaders as a “thought leader” to create future state improvement roadmaps with clear executable plans that are in line with the business strategies and improvement needs.
• Contributes toward building a grass-roots culture of continuous improvement, use of big data analytics techniques, system thinking, and…