Senior SME, Continuous Improvement

Job purpose:

The Master Black Belt (MBB) is widely recognized as a Lean Six Sigma ‘Senior Matter Expert’ in and outside their business area and has deep understanding and advanced knowledge of the DMAIC methodology, tools and techniques.

The MBB, in close collaboration with the senior leadership team members, will identify opportunities to deliver strategic imperatives. They will act as a key driver for the step changes on the Belgian site, developing sustainable capability within the business and realizing significant financial benefit.

The MBB uses their expertise to support business areas/functions with the identification, sequencing and scoping of improvement opportunities in unfamiliar situations, to support the delivery of strategic imperatives and financial impact by reduction of variability and simplification of processes through the Lean Six Sigma methodology. They will lead the resolution of the most complex level of problem solves in Belgium and will form part of a small number of MBB’s in Vaccines available to support the highest level of escalations via the Global Operations and Quality Leadership Team.

The MBB is the ‘guardian’ of the DMAIC methodology and supports the building and strengthening of the Lean and Six Sigma ecosystem across GIO/Q Belgium (circa 400 people), a critical component of the GPS acceleration.

The MBB coaches, develops and strengthens Green & Black Belt capabilities in GIO/Q Belgium to ensure Lean Six Sigma opportunities are executed in the most effective and efficient way.

The MBB builds and maintains a global network in the Belgian Vaccines Organisation and broader CI community, and actively connects with the CI Central team to ensure alignment with the Global Standards.

The MBB embeds Lean Six Sigma principles in their daily work and actively demonstrates a real CI mindset. They uses their excellent influencing and negotiation skills at all levels of the organisation to support the Change Management required to have sustainable impact and results

Your responsibilities:

Support and coach Senior Leaders and CI Team Members during the preparation and application of the Strategy Deployment Process (Hoshin):

Convert Operational Strategy and Goals into Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC) initiatives to deliver business requirements

Deliver balanced scorecard aspirations while developing Lean Six Sigma capabilities across GIO/Q Belgium

Support and coach Senior Leaders and CI Team Members with the identification of both financial and non-financial benefits associated with Lean Six Sigma improvement projects

Ensure the timely delivery of project results that meet or exceed agreed metrics or goals

Structure identified business issues and challenges

Conduct in-depth data analyses (including data collection and synthesis) to generate key insights for projects or Lean deployment strategies.

Lead rapid resolution of complex business problems using structured DMAIC problem solving

Accelerate the deployment of the Belt Ecosystem:

Support GB/BB candidates with the completion of their project charters

Mentor and coach GB/BB candidates during their certification projects

Properly prepare GB/BB candidates for the Tollgate Reviews organized by the Central CI Team.

Support active Belts with scoping, sequencing, tool selection and more complex statistical analyses

Actively participate to Lean Six Sigma Capability Building and Knowledge Sharing

Act as ‘Guardian’ of the Lean Six Sigma methodology in GIO/Q Belgium and regularly connect with the Central Team to ensure application of the actual Standards

Accelerate the GSK Production System (GPS) in line with Lean Six Sigma industry trends to deliver best in class performance

Participate and contribute to the different CI Communities by sharing best practices and lessons learned, and by actively presenting and creating content

Enable appropriate Change Management on all required levels to ensure sustainable impact of Lean and DMAIC projects:

Act as a CI role-model and actively promote GPS and DMAIC problem solving

Apply proper stakeholder management and ensure appropriate Sponsorship of DMAIC projects

Comfortably operate in a multicultural environment

Effectively communicate with all levels in the organization

Additional information:

This role reports into the Head of Continuous Improvement Belgium Operations

Level of role: Director

Business travel requirements: limited (less than 10%)

Expected presence onsite: 3 days/week

Primary location: Wavre, Belgium

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent

Minimum 8 years of experience in a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt role in a manufacturing environment or industries such as Pharma, Consumer, Food, Automotive and FMCG

Master Black Belt Certified

Ability to lead and drive change, matrix leadership

Ability to lead and drive improvement initiatives and / or cultural change year on year resulting in both financial and non-financial benefit and behavioural change

Ability to influence senior leadership and defend informed recommendations

Ability to simplify complex processes, applying innovative thinking

Fluency in spoken and written French (must have).

Preferred Qualifications:

Highly advanced Lean Six Sigma skills demonstrated in previous projects

Solid understanding of supply chain processes and interfaces in a bio-pharma environment

Demonstrated ability to work effectively across a matrix environment and to navigate with limited supervision to deliver on business results

Diagnostic capability to identify improvement opportunities for Lean Six Sigma GB & BB projects

Coaching skills

Influencing and communication / presentation skills

Strong business acumen

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Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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