Senior Manager, Business Excellence

Role Summary

Senior Manager, Business Excellence at Santa Clara, CA.

Responsibilities

• Host, lead and/or support the Strategic Business Cycle and Performance Review Activities while deploying SC strategy. Facilitate G&O's creation and quarterly review at different levels and cross functionally.
• Lead the Supply Chain E2E Performance Management Reporting governance (SC scorecard and strategic project).
• Lead governance for Manufacturing performance management driving key decisions and improvement projects. Develop and/or improve tools for reporting and tracking.
• Works with other departments such as source, operations, deliver, finance, engineering, and quality to ensure alignment, planning and realization of continuous improvement initiatives.
• Responsible for leading, developing and implementing lean tools for process improvements.
• Work with plant leaders and functional leaders in identifying business opportunities to improve process quality, delivery and cost performance.
• In collaboration with finance and operation, develop a process to measure and analyze cost actions in a monthly basis, and review with manufacturing leadership staff.
• Support Functional projects impact calculations, reporting, and tracking.
• Drive E2E Capacity Assessment short and long term to deliver BP and LRFP commitments respectively.
• Lead Lean and Six Sigma Trainings and Certifications Program
• Drive continuous improvement and transformational results through end-to-end value streams.
• Performs other duties assigned as needed

Qualifications

Education

• A bachelor‚Äôs degree is required, in Industrial Engineering preferred. Advanced degree (MA, MS, MBA) an asset.

Experience And Skills

• Minimum of 12 years of experience working in or with a manufacturing environment with a minimum of 2 years of experience working in a Business / Process excellence environment
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment (i.e. FDA, ISO, etc.)
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Process Excellence/Six Sigma tools and Methodology.
• Experience as a practitioner of LEAN or DMAIIC/DMADV methodology.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Possess excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong decision making, problem solving skills, interpersonal and influencing skills.
• The ability to collaborate with all levels of management in a matrix environment
• Great communication skills at different levels of the organization, the ability to deliver results through others

Preferred

• Experience in developing and executing change management plans
• Direct experience in medical device industry is strongly preferred
• Experience with Statistical Process Control (SPC), process characterization, ANOVA, Design of Experiments (DOEs) and hypothesis testing preferred.
• Experience with process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (pFMEAs) and/or design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (dFMEAs)
• Experience and knowledge of Project Management tools and processes
• Process Excellence/Six Sigma Black Belt Certification or Master Black Belt Certification are preferred.
• Training of LEAN or DMAIIC/DMADV experience is an asset
• Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations or focused professional certification (e.g. APICS, ISM, Six Sigma, PMP, FPX, etc.)

Other

• 10% travel domestic