Site Head, Operational Excellence

Company: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Location: Irvine
Posted on: June 6, 2021

Job Description:

Company Info

If you're like people at Teva, you dare to be different. We're making well-being a way of life for our customers and our colleagues. Join us in helping to make healthcare more accessible to more patients, while supporting one of the most innovative teams in the industry.

Teva's Irvine, CA production site is one of our complex manufacturing and supply chain operations.

We are strengthening and adding to our critical teams with great talent and capabilities. Teva, a global organization, with a brand of evolving success. Be part of it!

We offer a competitive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription coverage starting on the first day. We also offer Disability and Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, 6% match on the 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Tuition Assistance.

Teva is a global pharmaceutical leader and the world's largest generic medicines producer, committed to improving health and increasing access to quality health solutions worldwide. Our employees are at the core of our success, with colleagues in over 80 countries delivering the world's largest medicine cabinet to 200 million people every day. We offer a uniquely diverse portfolio of products and solutions for patients and we've built a promising pipeline centered around our core therapeutic areas. We are continually developing patient-centric solutions and significantly growing both our generic and specialty medicines business through investment in research and development, marketing, business development and innovation. This is how we improve health and enable people to live better, healthier lives. Join us on our journey of growth!

Job Description

As part of site leadership team, You will deliver value by insuring productivity and efficiency improvements that lead to the improvement of Site KPIs. This is achieved by driving change through the implementation of the global Teva Production System standards and coaching local management and team members to achieve sustainable step change in the Site's operational performance on all dimensions: Safety, Quality, Service, and Cost Competitiveness, while engaging and empowering people.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and implement site-wide OPEX Transformation Strategy, Master Plan, and Governance in alignment with Regional Strategy and KPIs
• Deploy Teva Production System, with a focus on, best in class systems, tools and processes, employee engagement and empowerment, a mindset and culture of continuous improvement and creating our new way of working
• Design the roadmap and targets for OPEX performance that integrates core processes, ongoing improvements and execution of the Site strategy
• Manage and insure alignment of site OPEX initiatives with Site KPIs to sustain focused continuous improvement
• Manage and report financial and operational impact benefits on a site level.
• Facilitates and partners with site groups to conduct OPEX assessments and xx
• Implement new operational improvement activities, while leveraging key OPEX practices from across network
• Ensure the Site has the right skills and capabilities to deliver on the transformation and Teva Production System--Coach, train and facilitate line management and change agents, including knowledge sharing of best practices

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in a related engineering/technical or scientific discipline preferred
• MBA or relevant Masters desirable
• Black Belt (BB) certification is desirable but not required

Key Requirements:

• Minimum 6+ years of recent, practical Lean-Sigma/Continuous Improvement (CI) application experience in manufacturing and/or process environments (e.g., Pharmaceutical/API, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Medical Device)
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams to diagnose, design and implement solutions to create step change improvement
• Operations/production management experience preferred
• Track record of tangible improvements, with evidence of successful implementation of continuous improvement programs resulting in improved site operational performance
• Experience building lean knowledge and implementing methodologies across a manufacturing site to xx continuous improvement culture
• Project management, facilitation and change management leadership skills/experience

Sub Function

Operational Excellence

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Teva Pharmaceuticals is committed to equal opportunity in employment. It is Teva's global policy that equal employment opportunity be provided without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, veteran status, national or ethnic origin or any other legally recognized status entitled to protection under applicable laws.

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Nearest Major Market: Irvine California

Nearest Secondary Market: Los Angeles

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