Operational Excellence Manager

Job Description Summary

Lead your team and drive projects and initiatives with high impact to the business, exploring methods and tools from Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, Design Thinking and Change Management. Create and share continuous improvement vision, working for operations and processes optimization in Latin America business. Demonstrate technologies and systems knowledge, as well as experience for developing metrics, promoting savings, increasing efficiency and sharing best practices across all business functions, bringing end-to-end visibility and approach to initiatives.

Job Description

How about becoming a maker of possible?

For more than 125 years, we've pursued our Purpose of advancing the world of health™. We relentlessly commit to a promising future by developing innovative technologies, services and solutions, helping the healthcare community improve safety and increase efficiency. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us at BD, from the manufacturing to marketing of our products, to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions to turn dreams into possibilities - For people today, tomorrow and beyond. Become a maker of possible with us!

• Work with executives and business leaders to develop project deployment strategy, implement change management approach, goals and priorities.
• Lead and support execution of complex short, mid and long terms projects for all functions in the region, managing resources, budget and timing to meet the annual strategic objectives.
• Lead local team and influence regional activities, developing people for opportunities in the Organization.
• Lead and support process development, deployment and improvement to enhance business capabilities to achieve desired functional performance.
• Manage projects portfolio to ensure strategic priorities are aligned with annual basis initiatives.
• Have a growth mindset to incorporate internal and external best practices (share and re-apply) to break paradigms in the identification of opportunity areas and solution definition.
• Contribute to the Global Excellence Team identifying opportunities for improvement and monitoring/reporting risks to Leadership Team in Latin America.
• Manage savings portfolio from all functions, coordinating meetings with local and regional teams, establishing execution plans and risks reports.
• Implement technology, systems and applications, sharing the best innovation practices and process improvement in all hubs in the region, using tools and reporting systems.
• Explore forums to share good practices between countries and external consultants to promote excellence and innovation, standardizing, integrating and developing continuous improvement culture in the Organization.

• Team management experience with demonstrated proficiency on leading others.
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions effectively and create focus.
• Self-motivated and ability to motivate others to achieve results.
• Strong oral, writing and presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills such as self-initiation.
• Business acumen or experience in Supply Chain functions.
• Ability to simplify strategy into actions with a strong focus on execution.
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.
• Certification as Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma or Design Thinking with proven proficiency on its execution.
• Experience as Project Manager with analytics and execution control skills.
• Successfully led continuous improvement projects resulting in meaningful process improvements or savings.
• Ability to manage small to mid-size project teams including hosting of workshops and Kaizen events, deploying toolsets such as VSM, Standard Work, VOC, QFD.
• Experience using statistical and Business Intelligence software tools, such as Tableau, Minitab, JMP, Power BI and other similar tools.
• Ability to build and promote organizational change management initiatives.

• Proficient with using advanced tools in standard Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).
• Ability to build and maintain solutions throughout Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate, Power App, Power BI).

• Experience on exploring Artificial Intelligence for workspace innovation.
• Portuguese native, fluent in English and Spanish.

• Experience managing projects or initiatives for continuous improvement and/or optimization of Supply Chain processes.
• Experience in supply chain operations: Planning, Customer Service, Warehouses, Transportation or Foreign Trade.
• SAP, Nodum and/or experience in other ERPs.
• Finance, Statistical, Engineering, Marketing or Business Administration background.
• Master's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent experience
• Prior Lean Six Sigma experience implementing Lean thinking in business processes.
• Agile methodologies proficiency.