Master Black Belt, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Franklin Lakes, NJ   

• Motivate leaders to establish a sense of urgency for engraining continuous improvement principles, aligning their organization, and building the infrastructure to achieve breakthrough results
• Collaborate with leaders to create and understand a case for action to integrate Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement (CI) tools and techniques into their business processes
• Encourage an align leaders by communicating a case for action, providing leader education, and defining what commitment looks like (roles, expectations, implications, etc.)
• Develop CI deployment plans that are integrated and aligned to key business objectives and include customer, business, and employee measures of success.
• Build a sustainable infrastructure to support the integration of Six Sigma and CI. 
• Assist organizations to identify core and enabling business processes, determine customer requirements, measure and assess their performance, and enable them to be flawlessly executed
• Identify organizational core and enabling processes, identify process owners, and key performance measures
• Use various tools and techniques to identify and prioritize customer needs and expectations, including the VOC, Kano, QFD, focus groups, customer surveys, etc.  Define and describe the concept of CTQs.
• Assist leadership in establishing performance dashboards and methods to collect, analyze, report and review data and ensure accuracy, timeliness and consistency of performance data interpretation and enable sound decision making.
• Work with leadership to prioritize, resource, and manage opportunities for improvements
• Assist organizations to deliver validated business benefit by selecting and completing the highest strategic business impact projects
• Develop and manage multiple Black/Green Belts. Provide one-on-one project review & mentoring in application of CI methodology and tools.
• Enable the team leader to perform multiple execution activities to accomplish the project objectives while balancing the projects competing demands, scope, time and cost.
• Monitor and evaluate teams in relation to established goals and objectives and determine when, why, and how to reward teams and celebrate their success.
• Incorporate the continuous improvement tools and techniques throughout the organization by communicating and leveraging best practices, educating associates and leaders, executing and monitoring deployment, and recognizing and rewarding success

• Provide support for on-going development, execution, and maintenance of Corporate Six Sigma policies and practices.
• Willingness to travel 20%-30%

• Bachelors Degree required--Masters Degree with emphasis in Business preferred
• Certified Master Black Belt required
• Minimum of 5 years experience in areas of Six Sigma, Lean, DFSS, and consulting required
• Describe the relationship between CI methodologies, define and distinguish between these methods and apply them in various situations
• Define and describe concepts/tools such as the Six Sigma DMAIC model, Pareto charts, cause and effect diagrams, flowcharts, control charts, check sheets, scatter diagrams, histograms, root cause analysis, PDCA, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), statistical process control (SPC), etc.
• Define and describe concepts such as value chain, flow, pull, perfection, etc., and tools commonly used to eliminate waste, including kaizen, 5S, error-proofing, value-stream mapping, etc.
• Define and describe concepts such as Robust Design, Taguchi’s Loss Function Model to drive out flaws of a product or process during the design stage and tools commonly used in DFSS such as, Quality Functional Deployment, design scorecards, simulation, prototype, Pugh diagram, etc.
• Define and describe the validation concepts, definitions, and terminology associated with GMPs and the philosophy and key principles of validation such as Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification, Performance Qualification, etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills including communications, facilitation, consulting, coaching, and influencing.
• Ability to work effectively with Senior Management
• Demonstrated ability to teach, mentor and coach Black Belts and Champions
• Demonstrated project management excellence. Track record of results.
• Excellent team facilitation/leadership skills. Teamwork/collaborative style.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation skills
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks
• Proficiency with key PC software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Minitab)