Job Description Summary

This position represents a fantastic opportunity for a talented, highly motivated, and positive individual to become a proactive member of BD’s global Operational Excellence (OPEX) community.

Reporting directly to the Plant Manager, the BD Excellence Senior Manager will be passionate about creating a culture of operational and customer excellence, implementing change, and driving Continuous Improvement (CI) across the network through the BD Excellence program.

This strong operational excellence and continuous improvement identity will be created through the systematic application of LEAN production and CI principles, methodologies, and associated tools, to ensure sustainable optimization of performance in the areas of quality, delivery, and cost, whilst improving safety.

This position also reports indirectly (dotted line) to the BD Excellence Business Unit Leader, who will provide additional oversight and guidance to the incumbent, during the execution of his/her work.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

Reporting directly to the Plant Manager, the Senior Manager, BD Excellence will be passionate about creating a culture of operational and customer excellence, implementing change, and driving Continuous Improvement (CI) across the network through the BD Excellence program.

This strong operational excellence and continuous improvement identity will be created through the systematic application of LEAN production and CI principles, methodologies, and associated tools, to ensure sustainable optimization of performance in the areas of quality, delivery, and cost, whilst improving safety.
 
This position also reports indirectly (dotted line) to the BD Excellence Business Unit Leader, who will provide additional oversight and guidance to the incumbent, during the execution of their work.

Main Responsibilities

Key tasks and strategic accountability:

• Lead strategy development and deployment (SDD).  Ensure strategic alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators (K.P.I.s’) top down and bottom up.  Support site leadership team in creating strategic vision of improvement goals, site master plan (deployment roadmap and maturity expectations based on priorities) and governance process across relevant BD Excellence components.

• Partner with plant Leadership team and Business Unit Managers / Leader to co-develop and achieve the plant’s implementation of the BD Excellence and Cost to Win plan /budget.

• Coach the plant leadership team, with regards to BD Excellence, with focus on external and internal benchmarking.  Develop and mentor zero loss mentality across critical areas to optimize quality, delivery and cost while improving safety. 

• Develop and grow capability through components and component teams to establish the fundamentals of excellence in safety, quality, and reliability.  Coach and guide site to ensure focus of resources and time on priorities.

• Coordinate BD Excellence components deployment.  Continue to drive BD Excellence capability development through deployment of progressively advanced aspects of component methodologies.  Achieve long term CI objectives through multi-functional alignment of all resources toward shared goals.

• Teach, coach, and demonstrate proficiency in BD Excellence concepts and systematic approach, including strategy development & deployment (SDD), core components, Zero Loss mentality and all related methodologies / tools.  Lead and facilitate breakthrough Kaizen events.

• Lead the Focused Improvement component team.  Develop and grow problem solving capability at all levels.  Support collaboration within the site leadership team to generate, sustain, and deliver a multi-year Cost to Win (CTW) portfolio, oversee optimization of the site loss landscape.

• Coordinate activity of component teams and focused improvement project teams to eliminate loss, according to strategic goals.  Meet or exceed operational (factory-loss) CtW (Cost to Win) goals through leading and /or supporting Focused Improvement team savings projects driven