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SMS Program Leader

Geel, Belgium Permanent Posted on   Sep. 10, 2024 Closing on   Jan. 16, 2025
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SMS Program Leader

  • Location: Geel

About the job

  • Within Operational Excellence organization, focusing both on performance and standardization, the SMS Program Lead reports to the Head of Operational Excellence and Smart Factory
  • She / He will play a key role at the Geel site by driving performance & transformation initiatives to achieve the site’s strategy & ambition.

As an SMS Program Lead, you will play a pivotal role in transformational initiatives and driving continuous improvement principles (SMS, Lean) across the organization. 

Your mission encompasses deployment and monitoring of SMS 2.0, driving continuous improvement, diagnosing area site performance, developing improvement solutions, fostering a performance-oriented culture, and ensuring alignment with strategic goals, at all levels of the organization.

The SMS Program Lead will collaborate with the departments, areas management, shopfloor teams and process owners to initiate and implement performance improvement projects/initiatives.

You will be serving either as a project lead, coach, empowering other employees on site to drive change, applying the lean and continuous improvement principles consistently and effectively, assuring impactful and quantified performance improvement, as well as sustainability.

Main responsibilities:

  • Transformation & programs deployment and sustainment:
    • Drive performance & transformation initiatives (e.g., SMS 2.0 deployment, boosters, Factory 4.0 solutions, etc.), actively supporting impact quantification, ensuring impact delivery and sustainability.
    • Ensure inclusion of the effective use of Digital to transform site operations.
  • Continuous improvement:
    • Work with business leaders to identify process gaps that will be captured in continuous improvement plans and facilitated by the continuous improvement teams for impactful results.
    • Lead waste elimination to build teams’ skills at identifying and eliminating waste.
    • Support execution, CI (Continuous Improvement) standard deployment, problem solving, Operational Excellence (LEAN) methods…
  • Maturity of the Sanofi Manufacturing System (SMS) 2.0: ensure process confirmation and sustainment of SMS standards (planning, owner, follow up, prioritization).
  • Standardization:
    • Ensure alignment of site to Global SMS 2.0 standards, including continuous improvement to standards and maturity of standards, replicating best practices across departments, and sharing across the organization.
    • Ensure teams are utilizing the appropriate improvement methodology including training on tools and application as required.
  • Industrial culture
    • Drive a performance-oriented culture & instill a continuous improvement mindset throughout the organization.
    • Ensure alignment with strategic goals, at all levels of the organization.

About you

  • Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Business or Operations.
  • 5+ years manufacturing experience or LEAN industrial experience with good understanding of overall business operations knowledge and Good Manufacturing Practices.
    • Experience in leading complex and cross-functional initiatives.
    • Project Management and Change Management experience preferred.
  • Highly Proficient in MS Office Applications including Excel, PowerPoint & PowerBi.
  • Excellent Communication Skills both in English and Dutch (verbal, written and presentation)
  • Excellent Interpersonal and Influential Leadership Skills, and strong end-to-end Business Acumen. Demonstrates Leadership behavior for challenging status quo and driving Transformation. Ability to function within a diverse team, from shop floor to leadership. Ability to train and coach.
  • Ability to adapt within rapidly changing business environment.
  • Pragmatic, analytical and data driven with systematic problem-solving capabilities.

Why choose us?

This is a great opportunity to join the Operational Excellence & Transformation Team of Sanofi Geel.

Our team role is to drive simplification, standardization and digitization that will support the One Industrial Manufacturing and Supply Network Strategy toward competitive and sustainable growth.

You’ll work with talented and passionate colleagues in an environment offering plenty of opportunities for career development. Ready to get started?

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Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

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