Sr. Manager, Continuous Improvement
8 months ago
Employment Information
Are you ready to work for a more active world?
At Bioventus, our business depends on developing our people. We invest in you and challenge you to be the best. We value our colleagues for their different perspectives and individual contributions, and our leaders listen. Our success rests on working together to achieve shared goals and rewards. Join a diverse team of global colleagues driven to help patients resume and enjoy active lives.
What you'll be doing
- Actively participate in operations, quality, supply chain, engineering, transactional flows, and transfer meeting forums to identify opportunities for improvement using CI toolset. Identify individuals and teams that could benefit from training/certification to improve business results and enhance career growth.
- Responsible for the management and execution of projects falling within the operational areas noted above.
- Provide direction and leadership on complex, high-impact initiations across all operations, quality, engineering, and supply chain processes.
- Accountable for Project execution through use of Project Management Office toolkit and regular reporting of progress and results to appropriate management teams .
- Provide and evaluate judgement based analysis of information, formulate improvement strategies and lead the development of a cost improvement roadmap for Bioventus.
- Responsible for deploying Operational Excellence standards and training across Bioventus operations, quality, engineering, and supply chain functions.
- Resolve cost, quality, performance issues by leading teams through the appropriate use of lean six sigma tools to ensure robust solutions are put in place.
- Work with Operations to identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce costs and improve performance for the customer.
- Ensure compliance is maintained for improvement projects, ensuring GMP requirements are met both pre and post execution of projects that impact validated state of production.
- Responsible for financial governance on approved initiatives.
- Work with vendors as needed to improve performance (cost, quality, delivery) of purchased products or services in conjunction with Supplier Quality and Procurement.
- Develop and sustain improvements through robust Change Management practices such as control plans, updated procedures, training and other tools necessary to ensure consistent compliance and execution.
What you'll bring to the table
- 10+ years of experience implementing lean and six sigma within medical device operations organizations, healthcare, and/or financial institutions. Certified by recognized organizations in Lean and Six Sigma tools.
- Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Business, Management, Operations, Engineering or other relevant field
- Demonstrated deep knowledge of continuous improvement tools include lean and six sigma concepts. Demonstrated success delivering world-class results and sustaining improvement as well as providing training to certify personnel in these tools.
Bioventus requires proof that new hires be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless you are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or religious belief that prevents you from being vaccinated where allowable under the law. Documentation is required to be uploaded within the first week of employment.
Are you the top talent we are looking for?
Bioventus is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of employees with a strong sense of belonging. We believe we are bettered by all forms of diversity and take pride in working with top talent from every walk of life. In the spirit of inclusivity, qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, disability, gender, veteran status, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.
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