BD Excellence Director META

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BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of Med Tech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

The BD Excellence Director META will lead the adoption and implementation of the BD Excellence vision and strategic plan within META. This role supports structured growth and innovation across multiple business and functional areas. This role is a key partner in our journey to BD Excellence and acts as a reference and advisor to the META Leadership Team. It supports the leadership team in leading the Continuous Improvement process, focusing on visual management, problem solving, and kaizen.

The role also helps deploy strategic plans by ensuring alignment through cascading important metrics from top to bottom and bottom to top. This is a great opportunity for a dynamic and transformational leader with strong commercial experience and expertise in business operations, process optimization, and organizational change, and highly capable of getting results in a matrix organization.

• Own the development and coordination of the BD Excellence vision and strategy in META to foster focused growth and innovation across various business and functional domains. Concentrate mainly on implementing the BD Excellence commercial tools and processes that enhance exceptional sales efficiency.
• Support the leadership team in deploying strategic plans, ensuring alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators top-down and bottom-up.
• Support the President META and META Leadership Team in driving key initiatives through BD Excellence, including revenue growth, Gross Profit Improvement and Operational Profit.
• Develop and facilitate continuous improvement (Kaizen) events to achieve and sustain improvement results.
• Partner with the global BD Excellence Central Leadership Team to facilitate best-practice sharing, driving efficiency and impact in the strong execution of BD Excellence tools and processes.
• Drive BD Excellence programs and initiatives to achieve long‑term continuous improvement objectives through top‑down alignments and cross‑BU / Function resources.
• Challenge existing paradigms, encourage and promote internal and external standard process;
  Drive collaboration within Business Units and Functions to accept new insights and achieve sustainable business improvements.
• Lead digitalization and innovation efforts at organization level to improve the business and operation excellence and customer experience.
• Develop and grow capability through cross‑Business Units/Functions teams to establish the fundamentals of excellence from all aspects, e.g. business development, customer service, channel manager and commercial operation.
• Be an authority (can instruct and implement) in the BD Excellence fundamentals of Visual Management (VM)/ Daily Management (DM), Problem Solving Process (PSP), Kaizen and Funnel Management.
• Drive culture of continuous improvement by encouraging associates to identify inefficiencies and suggest improvements. Develop an environment where associates feel valued and empowered to give feedback and make change.
• Use methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, or Kaizen to structure these efforts.

University bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or a related field is required.

MBA or equivalent business experience preferred.

• Relevant career with a progression in Sales and Marketing Leadership roles.
• Consistent Commercial Experience with a proven track record of driving processes to achieve results, ideally with experience as a sales rep, sales leader, and in commercial operations.
• Preferably expertise in the medical devices, clinical diagnostics and capital equipment markets.
• Sophisticated knowledge of Process and Lean techniques in a commercial setting.
• Significant career experience in an organization where a business…