Operational Excellence Associate Specialist

AbbVie • Barceloneta, PR

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About The Position

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok . Purpose The Operational Excellence Associate Specialist will drive and facilitate business process improvement by applying lean six sigma and improvement tools to support business strategic plans. The incumbent will provide data analysis from manufacturing operations to guide decisions in key strategic projects and performance improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Engineering, Business Administration or related field.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in both English and Spanish.
• Innovative thinking, where new and untested solutions are proposed.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Capable of handling multiple priorities with problem solving skills.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge in software such as Excel and Power Bi.

Nice To Haves

• Industrial Engineering background is highly desired.
• Knowledge and experience managing Lean Six Sigma tools, and experience performing time studies is desired.
• Two (2) years of experience supporting projects and operational excellence initiatives with site cross functional teams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support key performance indicators (KPI's) reporting and drive initiatives for improvement according to performance drivers associated with Perfect Index (e.g., effective collection of data, co-ordination of site activities to deliver top tier performance)
• Champion of data analysis, problem solving culture that uses lean manufacturing methodologies, DMAIC, Value Stream Maps and/or Kaizen to investigate issues and performance drivers to establish robust action plans.
• Lead strategy sessions to support business review, cost improvement and performance driven initiatives.
• Present recommendations and progress reports to leadership team.
• Promotes a learning and improvement culture to support strategic projects and business improvement opportunities.
• Lead process improvement initiatives and identify vulnerabilities within the operational tasks to identify improvement initiative as part of Human Performance result.
• Support Change Management initiatives across Site operations.
• Conform to EHS management system requirements and compliance obligations, promote continuous improvement, and consider EHS aspects during the design and change process.
• Comply with all EHS procedures and policies including incident reporting, use of PPE, waste management and disposal, and any other program applicable according to the position duties.

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level