Continuous Improvement Specialist

Continuous Improvement Specialist

The Home Care business within BD is unique in that it can manufacture products for consumers in the home and service them through our medical distribution subsidiary, Liberator Medical. This business unit engages with a variety of stakeholders that range from B2B2C and leverages omni-channels to drive awareness, engagement, conversion, and retention of our customers.

We are seeking a Continuous Improvement Specialist (CIS) to oversee all aspects of process improvement opportunities throughout Liberator Medical. In this role, you will manage Kaizen, Greenbelt and Blackbelt projects while collaborating with key stakeholders across the organization. The CIS will identify areas of process opportunities across operations, revenue cycle management, administration, and technology and develop a framework and training programs to adopt BD excellence at Liberator Medical.

Responsibilities :

• Serve as a change champion and key partner in new technology implementations and roll outs supporting the process mapping and cross functional collaboration to streamline workflow and eliminate inefficiencies.
• Ability to identify process bottlenecks and inefficiencies in addition to being skilled in root cause analysis identification and comfortable with data-driven decision making.
• Be an expert that can teach and execute in the BD Excellence fundamentals of Problem Solving, Kaizen and Continuous Improvement applications. Identify and facilitate continuous improvement (Kaizen) events to achieve and sustain improvement results.
• Partner with Urology & Critical Care (UCC) BD Excellence leadership to develop tools and training to expand the adoption of BD Excellence and leverage future opportunities.
• Support the key initiatives via BD Excellence, including financial performance and process flow optimization. Establish key performance indicators and action plans to drive rigor, prioritization and ownership.

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At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. Remote or field-based positions will have different workplace arrangements which will be indicated in the job posting.

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