Director Business Excellence Job Vacancy at Johnson&Johnson Africa

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Job Title:Director Business Excellence-000004J5

Description

The Global Strategy & Business Excellence Team within JSC currently has an open position for a Director Business Excellence.
This position is specifically responsible to initially provide Business Excellence support to areas related to Quality. The position will drive continuous improvement and LEAN deployment initiatives cross the value chain and will participate in the LEAN beyond the Plants initiative, one of the work streams of the JSC LEAN operating system.

    Drive LEAN deployment & continuous improvement initiatives in support of Quality.
    Provide global Business Excellence support to global initiatives such as LEAN beyond the Plants.
    Challenge the status quo and identifying business improvement opportunities.
    Envision and develop future strategic direction for business improvement.
    Lead/mentor or coach teams in designing/optimizing key processes through the use of improvement methodologies.
    Build organizational capability in deployment of improvement methodologies.
    Identify & drive adoption of proven practices to continuously improve results & processes.
    Lead/mentor or coach improvement projects having impact on the KPI's set by the business.
    Support leadership teams of/within process groups to further increase their effectiveness.
    Collaborate with HR to embed change management processes in business practices to enable cultural change.

Qualifications


    Change agent capable of influencing without direct authority
    Ability to build effective partnering relationships
    Familiarity with all aspects of the area supported, knows how value is created in the business, understanding the key levers for driving breakthrough improvement.
    Understanding of overall business environment
    Consensus management skills
    Minimum 10 years Business Experience
    Experience in pharmaceutical industry in domains of Quality, Manufacturing  or support functions is an asset
    Proven overall PE experience in Six Sigma, Lean or DEX (BB/MBB certified)
    Full understanding of metrics and ability to tie them to the strategy.
    Insight and business acumen, outside orientation and networking capability.
    Challenge business thinking and confront areas where improvement and breakthrough is possible.
    Driving business improvements and ensuring that projects and programs are implemented well.
    Ability to give direction on the use of technical, business and PE concepts to improve business results.
    Ability to facilitate an effective leadership team.
    Strong process thinker. Ability to oversee the linkage between strategy, dashboards and business processes.
    Demonstrated global Leadership skills/competencies.
    Software skills needed to perform in the job
    Fluency in English to perform effectively in the job

Primary Location Beerse, Raritan
Other Locations  JSC sites

Travel: 25%


Primary Location
 Europe/Middle East/Africa-Belgium-Antwerp-Beerse
Other Locations
 Europe/Middle East/Africa, North America-United States-New Jersey-Raritan, North America-United States
Organization
 Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (7555)

Travel
 Yes, 25% of the time

Job Function
 Process Excellence
How to Apply;
http://careers.jnj.com/region