Associate Director, Operational Excellence

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• You will provide OpEx strategy to manufacturing across the AbbVie network, managing the implementation of overall OpEx strategic programs.
• Drive the AbbVie Operational Excellence process across the network and identify synergies and common ground between AbbVie sites.
• Deploy KPI’s and data analytics to identify improvements.
• Drive large, cross-functional process excellence initiatives with demonstrable impacts on business results, driving cross functional alignment on OpEx Program outcomes and ensuring consistency of tools and alignment overall OpEx strategy
• Lead team discussions to resolve issues and ensure team alignment throughout program execution.
• Define OpEx Programs budget requirements and report monthly actuals, LBE
• Benchmark with other industries who are implementing Business or Operational Excellence.
• Enable the Operational Excellence strategy, lead stakeholder engagement and communication to senior leadership.
• Travel up to 15%

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Science or Engineering with demonstrated management skills working on OpEx projects in a multi-disciplined environment.
• 10 years of industry experience preferred, 5 or more years OpEx experience in a leadership capacity.
• Black Belt certification is preferred with minimum Green Belt certification.
• Strong data analytics and management skills, including the ability to interpret business needs, translate them into operational requirements and drive standardization and improvement towards those requirements
• Strong Operational Excellence and manufacturing background and knowledge of complex Lean & Six Sigma methodologies and to