Operational Excellence Lead

Site OE and Capabilities Lead

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Operational Excellence Lead

This role leads all Operational Excellence and Capabilities activities, for the CH PS NA Myerstown site. The role leads a dynamic team and is accountable to spearhead the deployment and integration of the PSS (Product Supply System) program and capabilities built across all functions at the Myerstown site. The role is responsible for creating a functional and business vision and strategies to transform the organization from a PSS phase 0 to phase 4 site leading to top decile operational performance within the industry by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and sustainable excellence. The role requires a strategic mindset, strong leadership capabilities, and a focus on driving innovation, digitalization, and cost efficiency.

This role must provide strong leadership, coaching, and development for high performing teams with a culture based on the Bayer DSO principles. The role ensures the integration of PSS program with overall Factory of the Future site strategies (including automation, smart manufacturing, digitization, and digitally enabled workforce) and associated capabilities built for employees. The incumbent acts as a change agent, collaborating across all site functions to ensure that PSS principles, tools, and methodologies are effectively implemented and embedded into daily operations. The role is accountable for creating measurable value by accelerating the plant’s journey to world-class performance, ensuring that plant performance exceeds benchmark standards in product supply and operational outcomes.

The role embraces Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) principles and practices and follows the VACC approach to leadership (being a visionary, architect, catalyst, and coach). The role actively evolves the site operating model and fosters successful adoption of DSO.

Shape employee development, evaluation, and career path based on skills; build a diverse, inclusive talent pool where members share and support each other to build their expertise; recruit, hire, and onboard new employees, based on team requirements.

Establish, coach, and provide vision for site's Operational Excellence and Training functions team fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and professional development. Leverage agile work practices supporting the teams to align and adapt resources to highest enterprise priorities. Foster culture of transparency of priorities and metrics empowering every team and employee to take accountability to operate as high performing teams.

Lead, mentor, and coach the teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvements, learning and acceleration of PSS initiatives including being proactive in providing development experience to talents. Foster a collaborative and positive work environment where employees feel valued and engaged.

Identify capabilities and upskilling training needs and develop or source training programs to enhance the skills and knowledge of the team. Develop and maintain high performing teams with higher level of self-organization and proactive culture that accentuates continuous improvement principles.

Support teams to learn in rapid cycles and build capabilities needed to create value for customers and other stakeholders

Collaborate with cross functional team leads and develop a comprehensive site strategy (aka SSR) related to space utilization, new innovative manufacturing technologies, facility layout and expansion, integration with site and global/regional innovation programs, and building resiliency into the plant operating modules leading to a 5+ year site strategy. This strategy will align with the organization's overall business objectives, ensuring scalability, sustainability, and competitive advantage.

Lead the cross-functional collaboration in development of site KPIs, tools to monitor the site performance and monthly reporting.

Ensure the development and execution of robust Operational Excellence, Efficiencies and Continuous Improvement strategies for all functions in alignment with global PSS (Product Supply Systems) program.

Develop site PSS Phase progression plan with site Pillar Leaders, and site Function Leads, with support from Global OE team including a gap analysis of current capability across the pillars, compare to the next phase pillar requirements, and drive phase progress approach for site.

Develop and deploy continues improvement programs and processes towards zero loss mindset using LEAN methodologies and coach PSS Pillar leaders to deliv