Director of Operational Excellence and Transformation

6 days ago

Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland Merck Gruppe - MSD Sharp & Dohme Full time

Job Description

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Operational Excellence leader to join our integrated production system, used for how we design, manage, and continuously improve our operations and supporting business processes, enabled through the development of our people.

The Operational Excellence leader will work with leaders and sites in their region. Approximately 50% of the time will be spent on the floor providing direct, hands-on support of activities, while 25% will be spent coaching leaders.

Due to the nature of the work and diversity of sites, expected travel will be 50-75%.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Partner with and consult Functional leaders, Plant Managers and their leadership teams to develop plans and execute performance improvement activities supporting short, mid to long term plans based on state-of-the-art GMPS improvement methods and standards.
  2. Influence and link improvement objectives to the highest division priorities always targeting longer term sustainable performance even though short term improvements are important.
  3. Develop Lean management and people development processes and plans with the objective of enabling the supported area to efficiently operate the continuous improvement system as supposed to simply tools, in a self-reliant way.
  4. Manage end-to-end processes and projects to drive results and realize intended business benefit, short term but importantly long term and year over year.
  5. Utilize various tools, techniques to diagnose, analyze and improve business processes.
  6. Provide teaching and coaching to effectively transfer Lean skills into the organization for the development of Lean Leaders.
  7. Manage teams to mitigate risk, allocate resources, and drive on time completion of initiatives.
  8. Build trust and develop new relationships with internal and external clients to effectively collaborate and achieve successful outcomes at a regional/global level.
  9. Proactively recognize and mitigate barriers to cross-functional initiatives and act as an intermediary across divisional, geographical, and cultural boundaries.
  10. Proactively work to develop and demonstrate a culture of continuous improvement and challenge the status quo.
  11. Mentor others on effective communication and active listening techniques to fully understand client/customer needs and expectations.
  12. Lead value deep process analysis, process observation and capacity analysis through value stream mapping to measure stagnation of inventory and information, waste, non-value added and losses identification and can lead kaizen to increase capacity and improve process performance.
  13. Apply DMAIC methodology and statistical analysis to solve complex problems with multiple independent variables.

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