Business Excellence Manager

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our North Chicago, IL location in the Core Lab Division. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

As the Business Excellence Manager, you'll be responsible for creating and leading the advancement of Operational Excellence principles and practices across the site through internal & external collaborations, delivering high impact sustainable business results.

What You’ll Work On

• This is not a remote opportunity.

• Must be able to travel up towards 20%

• Establish, coordinate, and provide leadership for the Business Excellence program within the plant. Responsible for assuring program and project integration with the Business Unit’s Business Strategy efforts and meet the guidelines, criteria and metrics established by the Business Unit Presidents.

• This individual will have a significant impact on both Plant and Operation budget and cost reduction goals. They will lead the most complex and highest impact projects available in the plant. This individual should be a current or future candidate for Department Manager as well as a prime candidate for the Business Excellence Program Manager position.

• Responsible for leading the site's Operational Excellence initiatives, including but not limited to the following: 5S Program, Gemba Program, Class A and Shingo methodology.

• Drive for transformational change by engaging personnel in the usage of Operational Excellence tools & methodologies thereby extending their usage.

• Deliver Lean Sigma projects according to the DMAIC process that will improve our ability to meet customer.

• expectations, improve quality, reduce cycle time, and reduce costs. Coordinate the improvements with senior.

• Management, appropriate project teams and Process Owners to ensure projects are integrated with the business strategy, other business processes and improvement projects.

• Support and promote other Operational Excellence practices for example Shingo should the business desire.

• Perform Internal and external benchmarking to measure success and identify improvement opportunities for the site.

• Lead t