External Manufacturing Operations Lead

What we do

At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we’re the house of iconic brands - including NEUTROGENA®, AVEENO®, TYLENOL®, LISTERINE®, JOHNSON’S® and BAND-AID® that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent.

Who We Are

Our global team is ~ 22,000 brilliant people with a workplace culture where every voice matters, and every contribution is appreciated.  We are passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage – and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future–and yours. For more information, click here.

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What you will do

 The External Manufacturing (EM) Operations Lead is responsible for leading continuous improvement processes and programs across multiple Self Care External Manufacturing sites. This role will work with key business partners across the organization (Quality Assurance, Process Excellence, Manufacturing, Technical Operations, Enterprise Project Management, Planning, and Procurement) with high level of visibility to leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with department leaders, establish strategies and programs across departments and integrate within the sites' overall strategies, goals, and objectives.  

• Continually assess performance of multiple sites across the EM network, recognize gaps to standard, and implement actions to resolve. 

• Drive execution of multiple projects within strategic programs to achieve clear and impactful business results.

• Develop project schedules, identify cross-functional deliverables and detailed timelines, and manage project priorities and cross-project dependencies.

• Proactively identify project risks, execution issues and opportunities; develop and deliver viable risk mitigation and contingency plans by engaging teams in balanced debate and leveraging risk management expertise and tools (identification, clear communication, mitigation plans). 

• Work with business leaders and project leaders to ensure program and site goals are achieved.

• Hold teams and site leaders accountable to business process standards.

• Support diagnostics and assessments of site processes and collaborate with site leaders to build and implement associated action plans. 

• Work closely with key stakeholders to transform the culture by embedding a continuous improvement mentality and best in class capability-building initiatives.

• Manage site needs for the business, such as supporting ERP on-boarding, overseeing project budgets, creating purchase requisitions, facilitating site change controls including coordinating deliverable execution; support Quality Assurance with site investigations, and other needs, as required.

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS Engineering, Business, or other technical degree. MA/MS/MBA desirable.

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in Supply Chain/Operations, Quality, External or Internal Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain Sourcing, and/or Supply Planning is required.

• Detailed understanding of project management methodologies, tools and techniques

• Must have competency for balancing and prioritizing multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously.

• A self-starter with strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence, partner and communicate across functional levels is required.

• The ability to think analytically and strategically to understand sophisticated, complex, or ambiguous problems or issues is required.

• Adhere to GMP compliance and procedures.

• Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Manufacturing or Packaging, Projects/Operations in a GMP environment.

• Experience supporting life cycle for pharmaceutical, device, and/or cosmetic products.

• Experience dealing with external manufacturers, suppliers and contract services is highly preferred.

• Experience coordinating investigations associated with plant related non-conformances and implementing corrective/preventative actions.

• Experience reviewing and/or writing technical documentation such as change controls and protocols/technical reports, etc.

• Experience with ERP systems, such as SAP.

• Experience with systems and tools supporting analysis and reporting including Tableau/Power BI dashboard development.

• Knowledge of Process Excellence (PE) and LEAN methodologies and tools (DMAIC, Voice of Customer, FMEA, Design of Experiments, fishbone, 5 whys, Kaizen, etc.).

What’s in it for you

This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

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