Senior Director - Business Excellence - Johnson & Johnson - New Brunswick

Job description
This position is specifically responsible for leading a team of Continuous Improvement experts in providing Business Excellence support to areas beyond manufacturing sites such as Product Management, Customer Management and Finance. The team is responsible for driving continuous improvement and LEAN deployment initiatives cross the E2E value network. This role can be based at any Global J&J site.
Serve as an active member of the Strategy Leadership team, including leading strategy development and deployment activities. Provide Business Excellence support to global initiatives. Conduct benchmarking initiatives both within and external to identify improvement opportunities. Build productive relationships with key research and consulting organizations.
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. Facilitate process group strategy deployment & development (incl. business cascade development) in alignment with the overall JJSC Strategy.

Proven ability to build an effective, globally-based, virtual team. Change agent capable of influencing without direct authority. Ability to build effective partnering relationships across functions. 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, including financial acumen. Consensus management skills. 10 years overall supply chain/healthcare business experience. BB/MBB certified - Proven overall PE knowledge in Six Sigma, Lean or DEX. Full understanding of performance management metrics and ability to tie them to the strategy. Insight and business acumen, outside-in 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. Ability to travel ~ 30%

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