Director, Business Process Optimization (Princeton)

Director Of Business Process Optimization

Joining Integra LifeSciences is a chance to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, our colleagues are challenging what's possible and making headway to innovate new treatment pathways to advance patient outcomes and set new standards of care.

Integra LifeSciences is a global medical technology leader headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1989, it develops innovative products for neurosurgery, reconstructive and general surgery, and regenerative wound care, including the first FDA-approved artificial skin. By combining advanced surgical tools with biological regenerative technologies, Integra empowers clinicians to deliver confident, efficient, and impactful patient care worldwide.

Integra Life Sciences is looking for a Director of Business Process Optimization that will lead strategic process improvement global initiatives across key enterprise value streams. This highly collaborative role partners with cross-functional leaders, vendors, and employees at all levels to identify and drive opportunities for business process efficiencies across the enterprise. The Director will be accountable for transitioning improvements from design to implementation, ensuring sustainable change through strong project management and organizational change management (OCM) practices. This position may manage multiple direct reports. Key responsibilities include :

• Optimize enterprise-wide end-to-end processes and supporting systems by applying Lean principles to drive operational excellence, scalability and alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Lead strategic assessments to identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities to improve processes and systems, ensuring alignment with cross-functional dependencies and enterprise goals.
• Leveraging Lean methodology and in partnership with IT / IS, oversee process improvement activities across prioritized opportunities, identifying and partnering with process owners and SMEs to ensure continuous improvement.
• Lead implementation efforts to ensure process changes are successfully adopted and sustained.
• Provide leadership across large, cross-functional matrix teams to achieve program and project objectives.
• Apply Six Sigma tools and methodologies, including Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen events, A3, Kanban boards, 5 Whys, and FMEA, to solve complex business challenges and enhance processes. Collaborate with business and technology partners and their teams to design and implement future-state processes.
• Build organizational capability in process excellence, identifying and mentoring process owners and key stakeholders in CI tools, techniques and methodologies to foster a culture of continuous improvement and strategic thinking.

Travel may be required up to 20%.

This role will report to the SVP of Enterprise Transformation & Program Management Office and be part of various extended leadership teams to help align the organization towards process optimization program commitments. This role will begin as an individual contributor role with potential to establish a team as the function matures.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Primary responsibilities are to :

Identify business processes with performance optimization potential

Monitor KPIs : measure performance improvements of new processes

Build process governance frameworks that drive ongoing accountability

Partner with executives to define our process excellence strategy

Serve as a trusted advisor on business process performance optimization

Deliver training and mentorship on process excellence topics

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and / or ability required for this position.

Preferred Qualifications :

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