Associate Manager - Operational Excellence

• Train and coach site leadership teams and other stakeholders with focus on the site leader, quality leader and OPEX leader.
• Leverage prioritized projects to deliver improved business performance & increasing skills of site resources.
• Improve key site processes including operations, quality, planning and other support functions to enable end to end flow.
• Manage and leverage external coaches to accelerate people development of site resources.
• Partner with other OPEX Director and team members to ensure standardization.
• Apply change management methods to ensure effective execution of OPEX and to promote a culture and mindset of operational excellence and continuous improvement across operations with increasing external focus and embedding it into our daily work.
• Responsible for driving OE initiatives at block level.
• Coordinate with block in-charge for implementation of all OE initiatives.

Key Skills:

• Good knowledge in QMS (Quality Management Systems) with an exposure to Regulatory Audits such as USFDA, MHRA etc.
• Good experience of GMP, ICH, FDA regulatory requirements, handling customer questionnaires, customer quality agreements and secrecy agreements etc.
• Must be Six Sigma Black Belt Certified and Lean Black belt trained.
• Candidate should have successful track record in implementing Continuous Improvement tools and methodologies such as Six Sigma (DMAIC), Lean, VSM, Kaizen, TQM, TPM, Kanban /5-S/Visual Workplace, Poke Yoke etc. in API Pharmaceutical Industry.
• Strong aptitude with MS Office knowledge MS Excel & PowerPoint, Quality, Operational Excellence and Six Sigma.