Manager Operational Excellence

Duties And Responsibilities

• Deploy best practices across all business units, and regions.
• Identify opportunities that will benefit customers to drive standardization, automation and profitably.
• Create, communicate and support strategies aimed at changing behaviors, without disrupting the legacy of success within the sites themselves.
• Understand inherent cultures, motivation and action.
• Act as a champion and change agent for driving positive culture change and improving operational efficiencies while deploying new techniques and tactics.
• Develop and manage a monthly report of KPIs, identifying critical issues and action plans to attack problems.
• Provide external benchmarking, industry best practice identification, evaluation, and adoption plans.
• Lead cross-training initiatives, aimed at broadening the overall knowledge of the business, while fostering team building, and improved individual growth and performance.
• Develop, maintain and ensure regulatory compliance with procedures and metrics that impact quality, safety, process and productivity improvements throughout the company.

Professional And Cultural Characteristics

• Strong business acumen.
• A “spark in the eyes” team player, cooperative, unselfish, thinks company-wide, not departmentally, who can work easily and synergistically with other functional departments.
• Ability to effectively interpret and communicate details, into concise and understandable facts, numbers, and actionable items.
• Must be a change agent, never satisfied with the status quo. Initiates action, overcomes obstacles, make progress and drive a process or project from start to finish as an individual or within a team to achieve acceptable results.
• Works with aggressiveness, tenacity, persistence, and intelligent forcefulness.
• Uncompromising integrity, moral values, and ethics. Honest, truthful, straight forward.
• Professional in appearance, demeanor, operating styles manifested in image, thoroughness, completeness, accuracy, polish, appropriateness, integrity, effectiveness. Performs at high standards.

Education Required

Minimum BA or BS (or international equivalent).

Experience And Skills Required

• Ideal candidate should have 3-5 years hands on practicing Lean, Six Sigma experience.
• 5-10 years of progressive experience, at a project level, in an individual contributor role, developing, initiating and supporting Operational Excellence initiatives in a global organization.
• 5-10 years of experience in a transactional or services business with an operational emphasis in Supply Chain optimization.
• Preference toward Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean, Six Sigma certifications.
• Preference toward candidates with multi-site global experience, operating in different time zones & cultures.
• Record of delivering quantifiable efficiencies/performance optimization and implementing change across multiple functional areas.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to secure alignment and influence without authority at senior-leader levels.
• Excellent computer skills (MS products, MiniTab).
• Must be able to travel 25-50% to various locations as needed and have a valid passport.

About the role

Sotera Health is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab sing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. The company is committed to ensuring the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year through its 64 facilities worldwide and over 3,000 employees dedicated to safety and quality.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have 3-5 years hands on practicing Lean, Six Sigma experience, 5-10 years of progressive experience in an individual contributor role, and 5-10 years of experience in a transactional or services business with an operational emphasis in Supply Chain optimization. Preference is given to Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean, Six Sigma certifications, and multi-site global experience.

Skills

• Strong business acumen.
• Ability to effectively interpret and communicate details, into concise and understandable facts, numbers, and actionable items.
• Change agent, never satisfied with the status quo. Initiates action, overcomes obstacles, make progress and drive a process or project from start to finish as an individual or within a team to achieve acceptable results.
• Aggressiveness, tenacity, persistence, and intelligent forcefulness.
• Honesty, truthfulness, and straightforwardness.
• Professional appearance, demeanor, operating styles manifested in image, thoroughness, completeness, accuracy, polish, appropriateness, integrity, effectiveness. Performs at high standards.

Benefits

None specified in the job posting.

Pay

Not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

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