Manager Operational Excellence MTO

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Job Function:
Supply Chain Manufacturing
Job Sub Function:
Manufacturing Process Improvement
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

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J&J is expanding our manufacturing capacity with $2 billion investment to support strong portfolio growth and continue delivering breakthrough innovation and transformational medicines for patients. The new facility will expand production of innovative biologic medicines in areas including oncology, immunology, and neuroscience. J&J's significant supply chain investment ensures a resilient and reliable future supply of medicines to meet accelerating demand for our current portfolio of medicines and our future innovations.

The Operational Excellence Manager is responsible for working with business partners to identify improvement opportunities and assess, develop and implement improvement project plans across the site. Also supports the deployment of the Continuous Improvement programs and ensures projects and initiatives meet customer and company requirements by providing technical and business program leadership.

This role supports the Business Partners to act as a change agent in driving continued operational excellence in the organization. The person will be responsible for the establishment and implementation of standard processes to ensure performance targets are met as it relates to Continuous Improvement. The Operational Excellence Manager will employ process excellence methodologies to create value to the customer and drive 'Right the First Time' mentality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supports project leads and project teams in developing program schedules and tactical implementation plans to meet overall program targets. Responsible for providing leadership in the tactical approach, deployment & execution of Process Excellence (Six Sigma, Lean & Design Excellence) in partnership with production leadership & the PE team.
• Evaluates potential business impact for improvement projects and advises on their implementation.
• Responsible to Maps site capabilities, identifies gaps, and delivers reliability improvements for all strategic brands
• Leads the CIP pipeline process, yearly site CIP targets, support business planning/financial cycles, handle the site cost improvement portfolio in Planisware, and the CIP site KPI
• Leads the performance management cadence, execution & prepares site performance review decks for external platform reporting.
• Performs key OPEX Strategic Initiatives and programs such as Smart Change Over & OEE Program, Golden Batch, Waste to Excellence/Yield, ZBB, Ideation Workshops for GP Improvement, etc.
• Training and certification of YB, GB and BBs at the site. Provides coaching & mentoring to candidates for Project Management and Lean/Six Sigma certifications
• Supports Idea generation programs, Kaizen and Internal/External benchmark
• Develop team resources through project planning, resource allocation and prioritization, recruitment, and budget preparation
• Change management and stakeholder management for the team.
• Manage individual initiatives to deliver CIPs and process improvements. Collaborate with business partners to implement targeted improvements in production areas to improve operational efficiencies. Perform data analysis to identify areas of improvement and to ensure the right focus
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple, concurrent priorities many needing immediate resolution

Qualifications

Education:

• A minimum Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Science; required
• Advanced degree, such an MSC or an MBA ; preferred

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• A minimum 8 years of relevant work experience
• Minimum of 5 Years of Operations/GET/MSAT/Planning/Project Management experience
• Minimum 3 years experience in a continuous…