Director of Envista Business System

Job Description:

Envista is a global family of Four operating companies and more than 30 trusted dental brands, united by a shared purpose: to partner with professionals to improve lives. Envista helps its partners deliver the best possible patient care through industry-leading products, solutions, and technology. Envista separated from Danaher as an independent entity in 2019, bringing its proven Business System methodology, an experienced leadership team, and a strong culture grounded in Continuous Improvement, Innovation, and deep Customer focus. Envista is now one of the largest global dental products companies, with significant market positions in some of the industry's most attractive segments. Our comprehensive portfolio spans innovative dental implants and treatment options, orthodontics, and digital imaging technologies.

The EBS office is critical to drive a culture of continuous improvement and accelerate company growth and profitability. The EBS office is responsible for promoting and facilitating the successful implementation of the Envista Business system and enabling a problem-solving culture that drives improved performance to deliver results.  Optimizes organizational performance by enhancing the alignment and efficiency of business processes by ensuring continuous, sustained improvement across the enterprise through the implementation of Envista Business System tools and methodologies. Includes focus areas like Innovation, Growth, and Lean.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion the implementation and evolution of the Envista Business System (EBS) across European teams, embedding continuous improvement as a cultural norm.

• Partner with operating companies (OpCos) and functional leaders to identify, prioritize, and execute high-impact improvement initiatives aligned with strategic goals.

• Facilitate kaizen events, workshops, and training sessions to build EBS capabilities and drive measurable performance improvements.

• Serve as a subject matter expert and coach for EBS tools and methodologies, including Lean, Innovation, and Growth frameworks.

• Lead cross-functional problem-solving efforts to address operational inefficiencies and unlock growth opportunities.

• Collaborate with global EBS leaders to ensure consistency in deployment and alignment with enterprise-wide priorities and tools.

• Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the impact of EBS initiatives and inform continuous refinement.

• Facilitate other EBS training sessions (EBSL bootcamps, eLA, ENLO’s) while continuing to evolve the EBS tool set.  Ensure impactful kaizen events at GEMBA mentoring site leads and Opco’s

• Drive the evolution of the EBS toolkit while evaluating and approving candidates for CP and ACP

• Support the development and certification of EBS Leaders (EBSLs) and other change agents within the region.

• Promote a mindset of accountability, ownership, and excellence through daily management systems and visual performance tracking.

• Act as a cultural ambassador for EBS, fostering an inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives and innovation.

• Promote and facilitate associate development in EBS fundamentals, lean, and growth as needed

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Job Requirements:

• Results oriented - must deliver results

• Independent worker, capable of operating in a fast moving, ever-changing environment, and able to navigate through conflicting priorities

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in managing and leading continuous improvement efforts across various functions

• Bachelors degree in engineering or business with 10+ years of experience or Master degree

• Excellent communication skills (writing, reading, speaking, listening)

• Strong Influential interpersonal and communication skills across

• Able to manage up and across the organization

• Extensive experience and knowledge of driving cross-functional improvements using EBS, or other continuous improvement tools

• Able to think strategically and view the business from a general management standpoint

Operating Company:

Envista is a global family of more than 30 trusted dental brands, united by a shared purpose: to partner with professionals to improve lives. Envista helps its partners deliver the best possible patient care through industry-leading products, solutions, and technology. Our comprehensive portfolio, including dental implants and treatment options, orthodontics, and digital imaging technologies, covers an estimated 90% of dentists’ clinical needs for diagnosing, treating, and preventing dental conditions as well as improving the aesthetics of the human smile.

Envista and its family of companies (Envista) will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.  Envista will consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes submitted by vendors such as search firms, staffing agencies, professional recruiters, fee-based referral services and recruiting agencies (Agency) to have been referred by the Agency free of charge and Envista will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt such unsolicited resumes.  An Agency must obtain advance written approval from Envista's internal Talent Acquisition or Human Resources team to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract approved by the Global Talent Acquisition leader and in response to a specific job opening.  Envista will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement and written approval in place.