Senior Manager Lean Six Sigma Lead

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Supply Chain Manufacturing

Job Sub Function:

Manufacturing Process Improvement

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Geel, Antwerp, Belgium, Latina, Italy, Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland

Job Description:

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/

J&J Innovative Medicine is seeking an accomplished leader with a proven track record of driving performance improvement initiatives. The candidate will assume the role of Senior Manager Lean Six Sigma Lead based in Europe and ideally, will be a certified Master Black Belt, reporting to the Dir. JJOS Capability Lead.

This role is strategically dual in focus. A key responsibility is to provide comprehensive training, mentoring, and guidance to the Supply Chain community on Lean and Six Sigma tools and methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Equally important is leading the execution of business improvement projects aligned with JJOS principles. The successful candidate will leverage and, ideally, master the JJOS delivery methodology to ensure scalable, sustainable improvements that enhance both customer satisfaction and overall business value.

Both aspects are crucial to advancing the JJOS evolution, driving value creation, and embedding a disciplined approach to operational excellence across the organization.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Delivers on site and virtual training in both basic/advanced Lean and Six Sigma concepts with focus on transactional and manufacturing applications.
• Coaches and develops Black Belts to execute Lean Six Sigma projects successfully, with the goal of attaining certification.
• Supports the segments JJOS and Lean Journey through curriculum development, champion engagements, charter development, best practice sharing, and benchmarking, to enable program success.
• Leads JJOS deployment interventions such as diagnostics, workshops and kaizen events to bring together cross-functional teams to identify, scope, and prioritize projects that achieve targeted uncovered performance improvement opportunities.
• Builds capability, coaches and mentors local teams on preparing and executing projects for a reliable and sustainable value generation
• Drives a culture of customer focus, data-driven decision-making, ownership of processes and operational metrics and continuous improvement, formulating guidelines which promote leadership and collaboration.
• Engages champions, process owners, team members and stakeholders to deliver performance improvement using JJOS Delivery Methodology and leveraging Lean Six Sigma tools, methods, and concepts, while providing leadership and advice on these technical areas.
• Evaluates participants to measure their progress in achieving course objectives and informs students and managers of their progress monthly.
• Establish and sustain intimate knowledge of Lean enterprise concepts, tools, and applications through training and research, together with liaising with JJOS principles

Education

• University/Bachelors or equivalent degree in Science or Engineering is required. A Master degree is preferred. .

Experience and skills

Required:

• Min. 8 years of related experience in Supply Chain (Plan, Make or Deliver) with cross functional experience is required.
• At least 7 years of direct experience in a process improvement role, engaged in facilitating teams and providing project analysis; experience in running large scale projects.
• Track record of delivering business improvement projects at Black Belt Level.
• Hands-on experience of JJOS delivery methodology, leading diagnostics and work streams, and generating successfully the targeted business value
• Experience in training and coaching people
• Experience in change management, stakeholder management, and influencing people without authority.
• Experience in managing Lean Six Sigma projects and driving results.
• Can connect with conviction at all levels (both written and verbally).
• Can solve problems by applying structured root cause problem solving tools and mentor others to apply them.
• Demonstrated ability to get things done through influence versus line responsibility.

Preferred:

• Active certified Black Belt or Master Black Belt Certified
• JJOS delivery methodology expertise / JJOS qualified
• Demonstrate professional leadership with the proven ability to build business relationships.
• Autonomously drives and finds creative ways to implement Lean concepts and culture.
• Knowledgeable of P&L and financial analysis of project evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and lead groups.
• Proactively identifies issues and looks for ways to resolve them, within the team.
• Ability to identify and scope Lean-related business challenges, conduct fact-based analyses and problem solving, and develop actionable recommendations.

Language Requirements: fluent in English is required, other language(s) preferred.

Travel Requirements: 30%

Location: any European location will be considered