Quality Excellence Manager - Sturgis, MI Plant

Quality Excellence Manager

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

This position works out of our Sturgis, MI location in the Abbott Nutrition division. Our Nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands including Similac, PediaSure, Pedialyte, Ensure, and Glucerna to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives. For over 70 years, Abbott's Sturgis, Mich., has been impacting its community while producing products that provide essential nutrition to millions of families around the world. Working here, you'll feel part of a family that is dedicated to making a difference and helping others.

What You'll Work On :

• Lead the development of new business approaches and concepts to maximize efficiencies and drive business performance.
• Lead and implement key strategic projects that will significantly improve margin and drive business outcomes for the site.
• Develops an implementation plan, conducts risk assessments, estimates and verifies financial benefits and develops contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events.
• Recognizes and removes barriers to project completion.
• Recognizes the broader implications of actions and proposals on the overall business.
• Have a practical knowledge of the manufacturing processes and equipment capabilities at the site of support.
• Establishes standard approaches for productivity, and quality metrics / measurements (KPIs) to ensure optimum efficiency and effectiveness and develop data visualization tools / dashboards to drive operational performance then drive this understanding throughout the site.
• Owns, communicates, educates and facilitates the site Continuous Improvement (CI) Projects / Objectives :
• Mentor / train key stakeholders in the use and practice of continuous improvement methodologies and tools. (Lean, value stream mapping, six-sigma, Kaizen, Focused Problem Solving).
• Assist in selecting, scoping, prioritizing, and executing CI projects.
• Estimate and verify financial benefits of CI projects.
• Acts as the change agent by helping employees learn, understand, adjust and grow within the continuous improvement culture.
• Assesses current processes and standard workflow and identifies process improvement opportunities utilizing organizational, analytical, Lean and six sigma problem solving methodologies.
• Thinks strategically to anticipate future issues and challenges and create appropriate plans now, using proactive approaches.
• Demonstrates analytical capability to find systemic issues to root cause, and create action plans to mitigate, close and / or eliminate.
• Drives the change management necessary to implement effective programs.
• Lead both direct employees and indirect teams of employees :
• Solicit the cooperation of a diverse group of disciplines and functions in a tactful and persuasive manner.
• Organize and lead cross functional teams and align team members to management's vision.

You'll be accountable for meeting our compliance standards including FDA, OSHA, and Abbott policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Pre-Employment Inquiries and Citizenship | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (eeoc.gov)

The base pay for this position is $97,300.00 $194,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.