Manager Operational Excellence, Sterilization Services Belgium, France, UK or Germany

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Sterigenics along with its affiliates, is a global leader in outsourced contract sterilization services, laboratory services, gamma technologies and medical isotopes, and the only vertically integrated sterilization company in the world. Operating out of 48 facilities in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, Sterigenics provides contract sterilization and ionization services for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and high-performance materials industries. Through Nelson Labs, it offers microbiological and analytical testing and consultancy to assist customers in developing and maintaining sterilization solutions in medical devices, tissue/implantable products, and pharmaceuticals and biologics fields. Its affiliate, Nordion (Canada) Inc., positions Sterigenics International as the world’s largest provider of Cobalt-60 used in the gamma sterilization process as well as medical isotopes used in the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases and cancers. Sterigenics International LLC and its affiliates serve more than 2,500 customers around the world and are owned by private equity firms Warburg Pincus and GTCR.

For over 50 years, Sterigenics has delivered safer, smarter and more productive contract sterilization solutions for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, using Ethylene Oxide (EO), Gamma and Electron Beam (E-Beam) irradiation. The company also provides process capabilities for Food Safety and High Performance Specialty Materials using Gamma and Electron Beam technologies. With its headquarters in Oakbrook, Illinois, the business employs over 1,700 people in 43 global locations across 13 countries, Sterigenics is able to offer more choices of location as well as the widest range of advanced technological solutions and support services to its customers. Sterigenics focuses on long-term partnerships with customers. By thoroughly understanding a customer’s needs, the company delivers the most appropriate and cost-effective solutions. From concept to market, Sterigenics customers can choose from a comprehensive range of solution-driven services in process design, testing, validation, regulatory support and routine operation from one quality accredited source.

Position Description

Reporting to the Director of Operational Excellence, the Operational Excellence Manager is responsible for the execution of strategic initiatives and capability building as part of the Operational Excellence program for Sterigenics. The position will work collaboratively with employees and the management team to implement operational improvements that focus on improving quality, productivity, labor, and cost saving efficiencies. This role will serve as a change agent for developing and encouraging a culture that is driven by safety, discipline, transparency, and accountability.

The Manager will assist in executing strategic performance analysis, gap assessment, opportunity identification and change implementation for critical processes across the organization, to deliver a scalable and sustainable best in class operations environment for the business. She or he will facilitate cross-functional initiatives for mapping process flow paths, gathering and analyzing process data to identify root cause problems, identifying areas of process improvements, and use of process techniques to develop solutions to improve and enable measurable results in process efficiency, customer satisfaction, product quality that drives higher productivity and an increase in profitable growth.

The manager will drive a Lean / Op Ex mindset and coach individuals and teams to higher levels of maturity in their way of thinking and applying Lean principles. He or she will support development of Lean leadership on multiple levels in the organization, from managers in our local facilities to senior Regional and Global Leadership Teams.

Location: Leuven, Belgium preferred

Key Accountabilities:

• Deploy the best practices across all business units, and geographies

• Identify opportunities that will benefit customers to drive standardization, automation and profitably

• Create, communicate and support strategies aimed at changing behaviors, without disrupting the legacy of success within the sites themselves. Understand inherent cultures, motivation and action • Act as a champion and change agent for driving positive culture change and improving operational efficiencies while deploying new techniques and tactics

• Develop and manage a monthly report of KPIs, identifying critical issues and action plans to attack problems.

• Provide external benchmarking, industry best practice identification, evaluation, and adoption plans

• Lead cross-training initiatives, aimed at broadening the overall knowledge of the business, while fostering team building, and improved individual growth and performance

• Develop, maintain and ensure regulatory compliance with procedures and metrics that impact quality, safety, process and productivity improvements throughout the company

Professional and Cultural Characteristics:

• Strong business acumen

• A “spark in the eyes” team player, cooperative, unselfish, thinks company-wide, not departmentally, who can work easily and synergistically with other functional departments

• Ability to effectively interpret and communicate details, into concise and understandable facts, numbers, and actionable items

• Must be a change agent, never satisfied with the status quo. Initiates action, overcomes obstacles, make progress and drive a process or project from start to finish as an individual or within a team to achieve acceptable results. Works with aggressiveness, tenacity, persistence, and intelligent forcefulness

• Uncompromising integrity, moral values, and ethics. Honest, truthful, straight forward

• Professional in appearance, demeanor, operating styles manifested in image, thoroughness, completeness, accuracy, polish, appropriateness, integrity, effectiveness. Performs at high standards

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of progressive experience, at a project level, in an individual contributor role, developing, initiating and supporting Operational Excellence initiatives in a global organization

• 5+ years of experience in a transactional or services business with an operational emphasis in Supply Chain optimization

• Preference toward highly regulated, manufacturing, medical or pharmaceutical industry experience

• Preference toward Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean, Six Sigma certifications

• Preference toward candidates with multi-site global experience, operating in different time zones & cultures

• Record of delivering quantifiable efficiencies/performance optimization and implementing change across multiple functional areas

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication skills with ability to secure alignment and influence without authority at senior-leader levels

• Excellent computer skills (MS products, MiniTab)

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status. Sterigenics U.S. LLC takes affirmative action in support of its policy to employ and advance in employment individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

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