Grand Rapids APICS Job Board: Perrigo Lean Sigma Corporate Black BeltDate: 3/4/2010
Company: Perrigo Company
Address: 515 Eastern Avenue
City State Zip: Allegan, MI 49010 Title: Perrigo Lean Sigma Corporate Black Belt
Openings: 2
Location: Allegan
StartDate: Flexible
Salary: Based on Experience Qualifications: A bachelors degree is required; Masters Degree is highly preferred.
Lean Six Sigma or Six Sigma Black Belt certification is required.
At least 6-8 years of experience in leading process improvements with demonstrated measurable results in a pharmaceutical or other regulated industry is required.
Familiarity and experience using MS Office required; experience with statistical software tools, and proficiency using SAP is highly preferred.
The drive and ability to collaborate, influence, build relationships and improve business process is required; the ability to create and maintain strong cross functional relationships is also required.
Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills and uses these to drive change through influence and collaboration. Duties: About Perrigo
Perrigo Company is a leading global healthcare supplier that develops, manufactures and distributes over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription pharmaceuticals (Rx), nutritional products, active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and consumer products. Perrigo Company is the world's largest manufacturer of OTC pharmaceutical products for the store brand market with over $2 billion in annual sales. The Company's primary markets and locations of manufacturing facilities are the United States, Israel, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
Perrigo produces more than 44 billion tablets annually, is the largest producer of liquid antacid and the second largest producer of acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Over the last 15 years, consumers have saved more than $10 billion by purchasing Perrigo products instead of the name brand.
Job Description
If you are a problem solver who gets results and continuously drives improvement, Perrigo is looking for you, to play the role of a Lean Sigma Corporate Black Belt.
As a Perrigo Lean Sigma Corporate Black Belt and a member of the Global Continuous Improvement Program Office (CIPO) it is your job to collaborate with management to create and maintain a continuous improvement and customer focused culture. Typically this is a developmental position with a 2-3 year commitment within the CIPO and transition to other areas at that time. You will work to align and prioritize multiple projects to fit within senior leaderships vision, strategy and plans. This customer focused role facilitates process improvements, change management and develops employees Lean Sigma skills by teaching and mentoring them on Lean and Six Sigma principles, concepts, methodologies and tools. Completed projects will be evaluated based on analysis of the overall value/process stream and confirmation that efforts result in true bottom line gains versus functional optimizations.
The Lean Sigma Corporate Black Belt will lead Lean Sigma continuous improvement projects and kaizens that deliver significant business results by defining, prioritizing and addressing business issues and needs through collecting and analyzing appropriate data, identifying root causes, driving to solution and monitoring and measuring to ensure sustainability. Black belts proactively challenge the system and support the evolution to a culture that is relentless about improvement. The ability to communicate with all levels of employees across cultures and the ability to maintain strong business relationships with business partners, sponsors and process owners is key.
Some travel will be required both domestically and internationally. Typical work hours will be Mon-Fri 8am 5 pm; however, data collection and training will require shift work as necessary.
If this sounds like a fit for you please apply at www.perrigo.jobs. We are looking forward to getting to know you!
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Contact: Perrigo Company
Address: 515 Eastern Avenue
Phone: 269-673-8451
Fax:
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