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VP, Operational Excellence – Supply Chain Mgmt

Location: Dublin, OH

Company: Cardinal Health, Inc.

 

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a Fortune 18 health care services company that improves the cost-effectiveness of health care. As the business behind health care, Cardinal Health helps pharmacies, hospitals and ambulatory care sites focus on patient care while reducing costs, improving efficiency and quality, and increasing profitability. As one of the largest health care companies in the world, Cardinal Health is an essential link in the health care supply chain, providing pharmaceuticals and medical products to more than 40,000 locations each day. The company is also a leading manufacturer of medical and surgical products, including gloves, surgical apparel and fluid management products. In addition, the company supports the growing diagnostic industry by supplying medical products to clinical laboratories and operating the nation's largest network of radiopharmacies that dispense products to aid in the early diagnosis and treatment of disease. Cardinal Health employs more than 30,000 people worldwide. More information about the company may be found at cardinalhealth.com.

What Operational Excellence contributes to Cardinal Health
Operational Excellence is responsible for working with our business leaders to identify and execute against strategically driven performance improvement opportunities, supporting successful implementations within the enterprise, and building people capabilities within Cardinal Health, using contemporary performance improvement tools.

Accountabilities:

  • Reports to the SVP, Operational Excellence
  • Performs deployment activities within the Pharmaceutical business and, on a broader level, assist with championing / leading the deployment of Operational Excellence within Cardinal Health
  • Implements Lean Six Sigma across the enterprise
  • Provides recommended actions and mentoring to Segment Executives, Directors and Leaders to promote integration of Lean Six Sigma into their day to day operations with the appropriate level of rigor related to, project reviews, data driven decisions, project prioritization, and project management
  • Assesses, designs, deploys and interprets performance metrics related to customer loyalty, operational excellence, and employee engagement
  • Assists the business units with selection, implementation and verification of measures reported into the Cardinal Health balanced scorecard
  • Assists with conducting market research to identify customer and supplier quality expectations in the broad range of Cardinal’s products and services
  • Identifies and publishes appropriate customer satisfaction benchmarks / goals to demonstrate results
  • Provides training, mentoring and support to Deployment Leaders, Project Sponsors, Black Belts, Green Belts, and Kaizen Leaders throughout the organization

Qualifications: Qfication

  • Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree preferred
  • 10-15 years work experience
  • 6 years of management experience strongly recommended
  • 5 years experience in Inventory Management, Supply Chain, and/or Sourcing
  • Certification as a Lean Master or Master Black Belt required
  • Excellent leadership and communications skills

 

Please apply on-line at www.cardinal.com/careers and reference Requisition Number 09005767.

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