Job DescriptionSuccess Profile
- BD Excellence capability building programs are consistently deployed and adopted across global businesses and functions.
- Leaders demonstrate increased proficiency and engagement with BD Excellence tools, methodologies, and operating principles.
- Capability maturity, adoption metrics, and operational performance indicators show measurable year-over-year improvement.
- Global deployment approaches enable scalability while maintaining consistency and governance standards.
- Stakeholders view the BD Excellence Office as a trusted partner for coaching, deployment, and organizational effectiveness.
- Success is achieved through strong leadership in highly matrixed, complex, and globally distributed environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the enterprise strategy for BD Excellence capability development and global deployment.
- Provide hands-on tiger team expertise, embedding into high priority teams and initiatives to rapidly scale BD Excellence capabilities whilst personally providing BD Excellence expertise to drive to faster outcomes.
- Partner with BDELs, business leaders, and regional teams to accelerate maturity and adoption of BD Excellence practices.
- Partner with BDELs around the globe to design custom learning, coaching, certification, and capability-building plans, identifying support needs and accountability
- Lead deployment governance, standards, assessments, and measurement systems across the enterprise.
- Drive executive engagement and leadership development related to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Establish and monitor KPIs that measure adoption, capability growth, business impact, and value realization.
- Facilitate sharing of best practices, lessons learned, and deployment methodologies globally.
- Identify capability gaps and implement solutions to strengthen organizational effectiveness and performance.
Skills and Competencies
- Execution Excellence: Drives disciplined deployment and sustained adoption of enterprise initiatives.
- Functional Expertise: Deep expertise in continuous improvement, operational excellence, capability development, and change management.
- Stakeholder Leadership: Builds trusted partnerships across executive, functional, and regional leadership teams.
- Influence Without Authority: Aligns diverse stakeholders around common objectives and enterprise outcomes.
- Operational Rigor: Implements governance, standards, and deployment processes that ensure consistency and accountability.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Uses metrics and analytics to drive prioritization, capability investments, and performance improvements.
- Strategic Communication: Delivers compelling messages for executive audiences and large-scale organizational engagement.
- Change Leadership: Leads adoption, behavior change, and organizational transformation initiatives.
- Global Collaboration: Effectively operates across cultures, regions, and matrixed organizational structures.
Education, Qualifications, and ExperienceEducation
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Life Sciences, Operations Management, Organizational Development, or related discipline required.
- MBA, Master’s degree, or equivalent advanced education preferred.
Experience
- 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in operational excellence, capability development, transformation, business excellence, or related fields.
- Significant experience leading enterprise-wide deployment and organizational change initiatives.
- Proven success within global, matrixed organizations and cross-functional environments.
- Demonstrated track record delivering measurable business outcomes through capability building and operational improvement programs.
Qualifications
- Expert-level knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies and deployment frameworks.
- Strong business and financial acumen with ability to connect capability investments to business value.
- Experience establishing governance models, performance systems, and maturity assessments.
- Exceptional leadership, coaching, facilitation, and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale organizational change and culture transformation.
Additional Information
Travel Requirements: Approximately 70% domestic and international travel based on business and deployment needs.
At BD, we are committed to supporting our associates’ well-being, development, and success through a performance-based culture. For this position, BD offers a competitive compensation package along with the following benefits specific to this role:
Annual Bonus
Potential Discretionary LTI Bonus
Potential reimbursement of vehicle use/mileage
Potential reimbursement of phone use
Health and Well-being Benefits
Medical coverage
Health Savings Accounts
Flexible Spending Accounts
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Hospital Care Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
Accidental Injury Insurance
Life and AD&D insurance
Short-term disability coverage
Long-term disability insurance
Long-term care with life insurance
Other Well-being Resources
Anxiety management program
Wellness incentives
Sleep improvement program
Diabetes management program
Virtual physical therapy
Emotional/mental health support programs
Weight management programs
Gastrointestinal health program
Substance use management program
Musculoskeletal surgery, cancer treatment, and bariatric surgery benefit
Retirement and Financial Well-being
BD 401(k) Plan
BD Deferred Compensation and Restoration Plan
529 College Savings Plan
Financial counseling
Baxter Credit Union (BCU)
Daily Pay
College financial aid and application guidance
Life Balance Programs
Paid time off (PTO), including all required State leaves
Educational assistance/tuition reimbursement
MetLife Legal Plan
Group auto and home insurance
Pet insurance
Commuter benefits
Discounts on products and services
Academic Achievement Scholarship
Service Recognition Awards
Employer matching donation
Workplace accommodations
Other Life Balance Programs
Adoption assistance
Backup day care and eldercare
Support for neurodivergent adults, children, and caregivers
Caregiving assistance for elderly and special needs individuals
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Paid Parental Leave
Support for fertility, birthing, postpartum, and age-related hormonal changes
Leave Programs
Bereavement leaves
Military leave
Personal leave
Family and Medical Leave (FML)
Jury and Witness Duty Leave
Required Skills
Optional Skills
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Primary Work LocationUSA NJ - Franklin Lakes
Additional Locations
Work Shift
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Our salary or hourly rate ranges reward associates fairly and competitively. We regularly review these ranges and factors, such as location, contribute to the range displayed.
Our pay is based on the role and the necessary skills and education to perform it successfully. The salary or hourly rate offered is determined by the role's specific requirements, including any applicable step rate pay system at the work location. Salary or hourly pay ranges are influenced by labor laws and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements applicable to the work location which may also affect the workplace arrangement of the role.
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