Senior Manager, Operational Excellence, Cell Therapy

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At Bristol Myers Squibb we are reimagining the future of cell therapy. With our bold ambition, backed by a best-in-the-industry team and long-term commitment, we are leading the way to unlock the full promise of cell therapy as we strive to put more patients on the path to a cure. If you are ready to challenge yourself, accelerate your career, and give new hope to patients, there’s no better place than here at BMS with our Cell Therapy team.

The Senior Manager, Operational Excellence, Cell Therapy is responsible for performing functions to apply techniques and principles that will improve the end-to-end operations and supply chain processes that will deliver best in class safety, quality, productivity and cost across the Cell Therapy value streams. This position is intended for someone with organizational curiosity and will think beyond the current status quo. Using lean/six sigma techniques, the person in this role will drive improvements both individually and through cross functional teams for cell therapy products for both global clinical trials and commercial supply.

The Senior Operational Excellence Manager will require knowledge and experience with the Toyota Production System as well as Policy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri) implementation. In addition, this role will be responsible for documenting value stream and process maps, and monitoring/improving key performance indicators to ensure business goals are achieved.

Shifts Available:

M – F, Standard Working Hours

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Build the Operational Excellence Structure and Governance for the Devens Facility.
• Develop Policy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri), Value Stream Maps, Visual Management Systems and other key lean tools.
• Grow the Operations Excellence maturity level in the organization.
• Analyze and identify process improvement opportunities and partner with key stakeholders to scope and ensure alignment with strategic priorities.
• Evaluate and establish processes and systems with the goal of improving product quality, throughput/capacity reduce costs, and/or reduce lead-time and cycle times.
• Utilize business intelligence tools (e.g tableau,) and conducting advanced analytics to improve key performance metrics to achieve future desired operational capability and growth.
• Utilize simulations software (e.g Arena, Promodel) to create models to identify resources needed to support operations and identify opportunities to improve overall resource utilization and capacity.
• Identifies required resources including personnel, tooling, equipment, facilities, work-in-process and production.
• Create and maintain capacity models, simulation models, and proactively drive capacity solutions.
• Establishes work measurement programs and analyzes work samples to develop labor standards.
• Analyzes work force utilization, facility layout, and operational data such as production costs, process flow, headcount and production schedules, to determine efficient utilization of worker and equipment.
• Support project teams, prepare project schedules, coordinate the execution of technical projects and develop presentations to disseminate results to project stakeholders and senior management.
• Implement methods for improving efficiency and reducing waste of raw materials and utilities.
• Design and facilitate kaizen/workshops to understand current processes, conduct route cause analysis investigation, design f