Reliability & Rapid Response Sr Manager

Reliability & Rapid Response Senior Manager Location

North America, United States, New Jersey, Summit – Hybrid

Reliability Director – Skin Health

The Reliability & Rapid Response Senior Manager will organize large or strategically important programs and activities for the North America Supply Chain business unit. The role focuses on developing short‑ and long‑term programs, managing goals and initiatives, driving reliability & agility, leading high‑risk projects, and proactive risk sensing and issue prevention.

• Develop new programs to support the strategic direction of the organization and drive business unit agility efforts.
• Develop an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement. Write program funding proposals to guarantee uninterrupted delivery of services.
• Ensure goals are met in areas including customer satisfaction, safety, agility, quality and team member performance. Manage changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved.
• Proactively identify risk through various risk sensing techniques and develop detailed mitigation plans with robust contingency.
• Partner with leadership to ensure communication is timely, roadblocks are quickly addressed, resource gaps are identified and resolved, risks are mitigated, and partners are aligned across multiple levels.
• Manage stakeholder communications ensuring project issues and decisions on services are addressed.
• Develop strategy with the overall E2E Program & Process team. Present and collaborate with cross‑functional senior leadership, exercising the highest level of integrity in the performed tasks.
• Partner with Plan, Make and Source to drive agility throughout our supply chain; focusing on utilizing continuous improvement tools to drive down lead times and strategic upside capabilities and optimize its complex global supply chain by managing shared manufacturing assets and capacity with other geographies, collaborating with third‑party manufacturers and logistics providers, and creating the capability to manage a systemwide inventory.
• Develop and implement the Agility Strategy throughout NA as part of our Customer Reliability efforts, offering a range of supply chain solutions to help reduce costs and improve profitability through new configuration/design of supply chains to service unpredictable demand for a wide variety of variants.
• Lead the NA Supply Chain capabilities development needed to achieve the desired level of agility within the organization.

• Bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree (Master’s) is preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience is required.
• Independent self‑starter with strong oral and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to partner and communicate across functional levels, and to influence without authority within a matrix reporting structure.
• Proven experience in program, process, or project management is required.
• Certified PMP or FPX trained is an asset.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or Process Excellence oriented training is required; certification is preferred.
• Ability to strike a balance between big‑picture planning and detailed execution is required.
• Flexibility, agility and ability to quickly adjust on the fly to new demands; with a keen sense of urgency is required.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to work in cross‑functional projects with tight deadlines is required.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects & tasks and successfully deliver results in the face of competing business interests is required.
• Strong understanding of supply chain, planning, technology, and product development preferred.
• Strong drive for results and continuous improvement is required.

Annual base salary ranges: $ – $.

• Competitive Benefit Package*
• Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Volunteer Time & More!
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Kenvuer Impact Networks
• This list could vary based on location/region
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