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Job ID: JOB-13520
Global Lean Leader – Senior Manager Global role with 30% travel and can be based in Ireland, US, Lithuania, Denmark or India

The Company

A company who has been serving healthcare professionals and patients for over decades — making a difference in the journey of life for people throughout the global community. Superb culture that will give you the opportunity to join a company that is well on their lean journey and will give you all that’s within you by working with teams globally.

The Opportunity The Senior Manager Global Lean Leader will provide strong leadership for global continuous improvement function to create, implement and sustain a strong Lean Production System while ensuring the delivery of key Quality, Service & Cost Objectives. This is a transformational role as part of the continuous improvement global team to support both plant and distribution locations to ensure the overall lean production system and culture advance and sustain for the client. The role is both hands on doing, coaching, mentoring but also having the ability to create and deploy a strategic roadmap to get client to a world class operation. Responsibilities:

• Critical Support to help create, drive and implement the overall Continuous Improvement (CI) Strategy for Global Operations, including global standardization of the CI lean framework and the client Production System, in order to drive business results.
• Educate and coach the organization on the culture of continuous improvement and necessary behavioural development, including a culture of continually challenging the status quo, autonomous teams and leadership structures. Includes sharing of best practices.
• Hands on teaching and deployment required at local site location from Leadership to operator associates.
• Take responsibility for Global Operations strategic initiative projects as appropriate to further drive operation excellence and CI.
• Other duties and tasks as assigned. Work Experience Requirements Number of Overall Years Necessary: 8-12
• 8 – 12 years of professional experience in a progressive manufacturing environment with a proven record of performance management, including supervisory level experience for a minimum of 3 years
• Strong track record of having worked in a world class Lean/Six-Sigma manufacturing environment.
• Experience creating and working within a lean manufacturing production system (Shingo or associated award recognition a plus) Education Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Engineering or other related field required
• Project Management experience Specialized Skills/Technical Knowledge:
• Black Belt Certification preferred with knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma methodologies required.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and execution of global projects.
• Demonstrated ability to influence a cross-functional team and challenge the status quo/change agent in order to deliver business results.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, strong work ethic, attention to detail and organizational/multi-tasking skills.
• Strong facilitation skills, change management experience and project management.
• Knowledge of ERP Systems preferred.
• Experience in equipment and process validation preferred.
• Experience in automation systems and manufacturing technology preferred.
• Experience in hourly system/data analytics (big data) preferred
• Strong in Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel

For further information on this Senior manager Global Lean Leader role which can be based in Ireland, US, Lithuania, Denmark or India but will have a global requirement across these locations (30% travel) please contact Caroline Kingston on caroline@hero.ie or 086-8395531

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