Director, Compass Implementation

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Our Operational Excellence team is responsible for the safe, sustainable, and cost-effective construction, operation and maintenance of world-class facilities that enable the discovery, development and delivery of innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. Operational Excellence leads strategic initiatives for GTS and enables its strategy and business operational objectives. Here, you’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, pursue innovative ideas, and advance professionally alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry.

Position Summary:

The Director, Compass Implementation Lead will be responsible to drive the adoption and execution of the BMS operating system vision and strategy in line with business expectations. Oversees and collaborates with sites, functions and the greater Operational Excellence (OpEx) network on developing and implementing strategies that drive a continuous Improvement culture. This position is a key contributor to development and execution of continuous improvement initiatives, strategic scorecards and dashboards, best practices in business processes, operational excellence principles and systems development and deployment. To achieve this, it will be critical that this position work with leaders across GPS to meet business objectives and build the foundations to drive continuous, sustainable, flawless execution and performance improvement

Key Responsibilities:

• Coach sites and site leaders in the development and execution of COMPASS Roadmaps leveraging the BMS operating system to deliver results and mature Operational Excellence culture
• Apply Continuous Improvement and Lean tools to consistently improve performance, reduce waste and drive productivity across GPS sites and functions
• Support and influence changes to operations and processes; support movement to an organizational ‘Lead with Data’ mindset and fact-based decision-making culture
• Contextualize critical business issues and value levers, work to embed an objective and unbiased point of view into the business conversation with stakeholders, using the ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, concise, and actionable manner
• Build customized organizational capability plans that meet the needs of the OpU
• Develop a comprehensive data collection, performance reporting and review mechanism
• Design/architect analytics solutions including data transformation, data visualization, statistical analysis, modeling platforms, data manipulation software and visualization tools
• Establish and maintain clear and ambitious SMART KPIs to ensure that organization objectives in the areas of safety, quality, service, cost and efficiency are met
• Business Process Improvement - Define, optimize and maintain end to end business processes
• Lead workshops, Kaizen, DMAIC, PDCA and Lean Six Sigma Projects
• Partner with leadership to identify high impact opportunities, execute process improvements and drive initiatives across the organization
• Identify and eliminate process inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and waste to enhance productivity and reduce costs
• Deployment of Governance Systems & Visual Management Systems
• Root cause problem solving
• Optimization of Labor, Facility, and Space Utilization
• Identification of meaningful Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Continuous Improvement Education, Training, Project