Program Manager, Operations Excellence

Company Description

About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Identify opportunities to reduce operating costs, increase efficiencies, and reduce errors. Lead Continuous Improvement events providing mentoring and leadership to sponsors and participants Structure and lead cross-function projects to address identified opportunities achieving demonstrable results. Assist with training and mentoring personnel on Business Excellence tools. Establish and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders. Responsible for all aspects of project coordination, communication, and execution. Set and manage expectations with stakeholders. Develop project plans to achieve successful project delivery within budget, scope and schedule. Clearly execute the functional responsibilities for a project providing oversight and guidance to achieve the project deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Executes data-driven analysis of opportunities and risks, and identifies and quantifies impacts and recommendations to the business or manufacturing site
• Demonstrates leadership in setting and aligning project direction while managing stakeholder relationships and expectations
• Ability to effectively execute and manage improvement projects leveraging Lean Six Sigma (LSS) tools
• Identifies and executes continuous improvement efforts to meet service, quality and cost objectives
• Supports and motivates teams to ensure timely and successful delivery of projects
• Provide training and coaching to sponsors and Kaizen leaders, if needed