Lead- Business Excellence- Ankleshwar (Manufacturing Site)

Job Purpose:

The role holder's primary responsibility is to drive business excellence projects identified by the organization to focus on improving quality, cost, delivery, safety, and morale seamlessly converge, creating an environment of optimal productivity and continuous growth. To drive continuous improvement and initiate process improvement activities, involve in analysis, planning, implementation, documentation, and support of operation process improvement projects. To also execute concepts such as Lean, 6 sigma etc to build operational excellence.

Role & Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning:

• Provide framework for manufacturing excellence in order to establish a strategic vision for the technical function. Define the scope of manufacturing excellence initiatives with President Operations / Plant heads to finalize priorities for the function.
• Provide analytical inputs on key manufacturing performance indicators such as capacity utilization, cost effectiveness, efficiency, monthly production targets for key bottleneck dosage forms, etc
• Closely work with the leadership team to improve plant performance and optimize cash flow to support business growth by applying Manufacturing Excellence Methodologies

Operational/ Functional Excellence:

• Work closely with cross functional teams in identifying Savings and Efficiency improvement projects under categories line Lean, Six sigma, Technology roadmap, Material sourcing etc. Coordinate closely with project leaders, ensure project schedule adherence, validate project savings, Generate monthly savings report in alignment with finance.
• Aim towards reducing waste and costs and improve quality with a focus on continuous improvement and optimization of business processes and systems to achieve better results.
• Drive the plant 5S implementation roadmap & Motivate and drive towards Kaizen system across all the functions
• Improve operational efficiencies & process capabilities using lean principles and six sigma techniques
• Lead identification of resource requirements, timelines and dependencies in order to finalize project plan

Process Excellence:

• Build value stream mappings and enable the team to use Lean tools and DMAIC methodology in improvement projects.
• Lead the implementation of manufacturing excellence programs by collaborating with Site Heads, monitoring project progress, resolving bottlenecks and providing key technical inputs to ensure streamlined implementation and realization of envisaged benefits.
• Monitor project progress against plan and resolve critical bottlenecks by providing technical inputs on complex issues and coordinating with key stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence of quality, regulatory and safety norms. All changes to be routed through appropriate change process.

Tracking & Monitoring:

• Monitor and ensure that teams are actively applying the Lean Process and Six-Sigma in a correct manner to solve chronic problems, remove waste and to plan new products.
• Monitor the progress and ensure that the manufacturing facility is aligning projects with the business objectives and strategic plans.
• Evaluate and analyse best practices in the industry for suitability in the organizations context.

Performance Management:

• As a Six Sigma coach, provide expert advice and assistance to Green Belts. Train, support, develop and coach plant leadership teams from statistics to change management and to process design strategies.
• Train & monitor the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in service operations and meeting of individual, team and organization targets.
• Lead development of a set of supporting systems such as training courses and workshops and plan a detailed schedule and create a high performing team.
• Drive a culture of excellence across the team & technical functions by ensuring capability building and driving a focus on key methodologies to position the organizations manufacturing capability as a core competency and competitive advantage in the market.

Preferred candidate profile

Minimum Education Qualification:

Certifications / Skills Required:

Minimum Experience (in Years) :

• At least 10-15 years of extensive experience in Operational Excellence roles in a large manufacturing multinational unit with best practices
• Deep understanding of Continuous improvement methodologies (Lean / Six Sigma / Kaizen / Operational Excellence OpEx).
• Well versed in process data analysis using Data analytic and visualization tools.

Interested candidates please share your updated profiles on shweta.chaskar@cohizon.com

Regards,

Shweta

Cohizon Life Sciences Ltd.