Becton, Dickinson and Company

Sr. Manager, BD Excellence

Becton, Dickinson and Company • $110K — $130K *
Columbus, NE 68601In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or relevant field required.
  • Seven years' manufacturing leadership experience in a plant required.
  • Three years' experience operating a production system required.
  • Strong knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma systems, with green or black belt certification preferred.
  • Experience in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment required.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategy deployment ensuring alignment through KPIs.
  • Partner with leadership to develop and execute BD Excellence and Cost to Win plans.
  • Coach leadership on BD Excellence and foster a zero loss mindset.
  • Build capability in safety, quality, and reliability at the site.
  • Drive BD Excellence deployment and achieve CI objectives across resources.
  • Teach and guide on BD Excellence methodologies and facilitate Kaizen events.
  • Lead the Focused Improvement component team and oversee governance processes.

Benefits

  • Extensive training and development opportunities.
  • Supportive work environment that prioritizes safety and quality.
  • Flexible travel requirements, offering varied experiences.
  • Opportunity to influence and create a culture of operational excellence.
Full Job Description
Job Position Title:Senior Manager, BD Excellence

Function: BD Excellence Team

Location: Columbus West

Job Group/Grade: JG5

Position Summary:

Site BD Excellence Senior Manager will be passionate about creating a culture of operational and customer excellence, implementing change, and driving Continuous Improvement(CI) across the site through deploying BD Excellence program. Ensures compliance with BD quality systems, policies, procedures and best practices, and all local, state, federal and BD safety regulations, policies and procedures. Regular, punctual attendance is an essential job function. Ability to read and write and converse in English. Willing and able to uphold BD Values.

Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Lead strategy deployment (SD). Ensure strategic alignment through cascading Key Performance Indicators (KPIs') top down and bottom up. Support site leadership team in creating strategic vision of improvement goals, site master plan (deployment roadmap and maturity expectations based on prior ities). Support overnance process across relevant BD Excellence components.


  • Partner with plant Leadership team and Business Unit Managers/Leader to co-develop and execute the plant's implementation of the BD Excellence and Cost to Win plan/budget.


  • Coach the plant leadership team, with regards to BD Excellence, with focus on external and internal benchmarking. Develop and mentor zero loss mindset across critical areas to optimize quality, delivery and cost while improving safety.


  • Develop and grow capability through components and component teams to establish the fundamentals of excellence in safety, quality, and reliability. Coach and guide site to ensure focus of resources and time on priorities.


  • Coordinate BD Excellence components deployment. Continue to drive BD Excellence capability development through deployment of progressively advanced aspects of component methodologies. Achieve long term CI objectives through cross functional alignment of all resources toward shared goals.


  • Teach, coach, and demonstrate proficiency in BD Excellence concepts and systematic approach, including strategy development & deployment (SDD), core components, Zero Loss mindset and all related methodologies/tools. Lead and facilitate breakthrough Kaizen events.


  • Lead the Focused Improvement component team. Develop and grow problem solving capability at all levels. Drive collaboration w ith site leadership team to generate, sustain, and deliver a multi-year Cost to Win (CTW) portfolio, oversee governance processes, and optimization of the site loss landscape.


  • Coordinate activity of all component teams and focused improvement project teams to eliminate loss, according to strategic goals. Meet or exceed CtW (Cost to Win) goals through leading and/or supporting Focused Improvement team savings projects driven by loss awareness and maturing loss landscape. Create and manage CI budget.


  • Immediate supervisor of BD Excellence Manager.


  • Flexible and able to travel. Expected travel up to 25%.


  • Other duties as required to support the needs of the business.


Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or relevant field required.


Experience:

  • Seven years' manufacturing experience/leadership experience in a plant required.


  • Three years' experience operating a production system required. Certified or recognized as a Production System practitioner required.


  • Previous experience in implementing, and strong knowledge of, Lean and Six Sigma business systems required. Six sigma green or black belt certification preferred.


  • Experience of working in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment required.


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Demonstrated passion for safety, customer centricity and operational excellence.


  • Excellent understanding of the interaction between operational excellence and customer service


  • Strong track record in project or program management


  • Verbal and written communication skills with people at all levels - Advanced


  • Business acumen and ability to display the linkage between projects and desired business results - Proficient


  • Able to develop compelling business case for resource investment, aligned with CTW finance policies and guidelines - Proficient


  • Team player - proficient


  • Ability to influence without authority - Proficient


  • Leadership and Strategic thinking - Proficient


  • Working with highly matrixes organization/organizational savvy - Proficient


  • Building effective transversal team and network - Proficient


  • Managing complexity and diversity / Adaptability - Proficient


  • Financial Acumen - Proficient


  • Results Oriented - Proficient


  • Computer skills (MS Office) - Proficient


  • Communication and presentation skills required - Proficient


PCP Level: NA

Primary Work Location
USA NE - Columbus (West)

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Size
75,000 employees
Market Cap
$72 billion
Industry
Healthcare
Net Income
$1.6 billion
Founded
1897
5 Year Trend
+9.3%
Revenue
$18.2 billion
NASDAQ
BDX
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