**_What Deployment Leader contributes to Cardinal Health_**
Operational Excellence is responsible for identifying and executing against performance improvement opportunities, enabling successful transformations across the enterprise, and using contemporary process improvement techniques while building people capabilities.
Deployment Leader is responsible for executing the strategic goals for operational excellence within a business segment, unit, or function including the selection and development of resources, managing the project pipeline, and ensuring ongoing communication about progress against goals.
**Location: Tijuana or Juarex, MEX; Alajuela, CR; Santo Domingo, DR; El Paso, TX or Anasco, PR.**
- Act as change agent to bring about significant improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Cash targets, meeting stakeholder commitment, driven by significant improvements in Lean maturity
- Leads discussion and implementation of strategic improvement opportunities by prioritization
- Assesses current business performance and opportunities to deploy and balance operational excellence resources to global manufacturing sites
- Works with multiple cross functional teams, business practitioners, and/or senior leaders and take actions to synthesize findings, implement improvement recommendations, and lead initiatives
- In partnership with business leaders and other lean resources, increase the organization's lean maturity using the standard OpEx maturity assessment
- Understands and can assess financial methodologies with short and long range cost reduction strategies
- Utilizes broad and deep Operational Excellence, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Global Supply Chain knowledge to implement industry accepted business practices, policies, and procedures
- Maintain Kaizen Events Roadmap & VIP Hopper for manufacturing sites
- Mentors Black Belt projects and Kaizens
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Qualifications_**
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering,, Supply Chain or related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
- Advance to fluent proficiency in English (and spanish)
- 12+ years experience in Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations or related field to include:
- 5+ years experience in Kaizen processes, implementations, and continuous improvement recommendations
- Change agent, able to make the case for lean, demonstrate immediate impact and drive cultural change.
- Highly collaborative; comfortable with constructive conflict and debate normally associated with change.
- Critical thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities.
- Impactful communicator and influencer from the shop floor to the boardroom
- Travel >75%
Highly preferred qualifications
- 3+ years experience as a manufacturing/operations manager strongly recommended
- 5+ years of project management experience strongly recommended
- Certification as a Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt strongly recommended
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What is expected of you and others at this level_**
- Works on or may lead highly complex projects of large scope
- Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
- Projects are typically cross-functional, global and have significant and long-term impact
- Provides solutions which set precedent and replicate best practices both from within and outside of Cardinal Health
- Govern and monitor the effectiveness of management metrics; recommend and implement changes as needed to ensure business objectives are met
- Accountable to ensure organization-wide achievements of annual goals
- Independently defines project, establishes budget, identifies participants and mitigates risk
- Provides leadership to directors, managers and experienced professional staff; may also manage front line supervisors
- Manages an organizational budget
- Develops and implements policies and procedures to achieve organizational goals
- Assists in the development of functional strategy
- Decisions have an extended impact on work processes, outcomes, and customers
- Interacts with internal and/or external leaders, including senior management
- Persuades others into agreement in sensitive situations while maintaining positive relationships
- Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law._
