Associate Director, Operational Excellence

The Role:

ElevateBio is looking for a dynamic and engaging contributor for the Global Basecamp Team.  The Associate Director, Operational Excellence is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for their area and general business processes. 

ElevateBio Basecamp is taking advantage of some important opportunities to better serve patients by growing our operations. To be successful, we need to build and implement sustainable principles and change management methodologies in order to effectively improve the way we run operations and internalize appropriate behaviors and mindsets.

We need a guide, someone who understands complex manufacturing systems, who has the commitment, drive, and persistence to help ElevateBio Basecamp adopt the appropriate best practices to achieve success..

You have a minimum of ten years' experience optimizing manufacturing value streams and have the gravitas to gain the respect of our people. You are influential, able to build robust, honest relationships with people, respectfully challenge and get people to change how they do things. You relish coaching people in the tools and techniques to analyze and improve operations as well as in leading with people at the center.

You will be an important member of the Basecamp Global Team, partnering with all functional departments to align on priorities and specific targets (i.e. safety, quality, delivery, cost & people). This is a highly collaborative and influencing role, as this individual will frequently require support of cross-functional team members. This role will create our operational excellence offering and grow the team through robust business rationale.

How you will contribute:

Optimize the Basecamps's value streams, aligned with the Basecamp's important few priorities to deliver on our Basecamp Must Haves:

• Develop systems to measure operational performance, make opportunities visible, focus on the most important and drive business impacting outcomes.
• Lead key projects that transform the way we operate
• Coach, guide and educate operations leaders in industrial/manufacturing engineering tools and techniques, building on Elevate’s lean management system
• Develop your team into operations leaders of tomorrow
• Lead and manage the site's root-cause problem solving training and qualification program
• Collaborate with your peers across the Basecamp and the broader Elevate organization
• Contribute to Basecamp's strategy deployment process
• Proven record of delivering business-impacting results
• Demonstrated understanding of complex manufacturing systems, improving capacity and yield
• Solid understanding and demonstrated application of lean to deliver tangible outcomes
• Clear structured-, logical-, analytical- and critical-thinking.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills.
  
  

Requirements

• Typically requires bachelor's degree, preferably in science, engineering, or other related technical field.
• 8+ years of related experience with 3+ years of management experience for supervisory roles.
• Strong preference for qualifications and experience in industrial engineering or manufacturing engineering
• Experience as a value stream leader a distinct advantage
• Experience training and coaching industrial engineering, operational excellence and/or lean an advantage
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing or FDA regulated operations an advantage
• Experience in process industry an advantage
• Experience and qualifications in lean and six sigma an advantage