Director, Business Excellence

Job Title

Job Description

Director, Business Excellence (Plymouth, MN)

As a member of the Image Guided Therapy Devices (IGT-D) Business Excellence Team, you will deploy continuous improvement (Lean) activities, prioritizing and driving performance improvements that will have the biggest overall impact on the business results and on delivering operational excellence to customers.

Your role:

• Support the strategic planning process (Hoshin), operationalizing the strategic initiatives and safeguarding their successful deployment.
• Influence management team members and their teams to improve their ways of working and deliver results through training and facilitation of Lean Practices. Train and coach the organization’s leaders to embrace Lean Leadership as their primary way to lead people, and support the business in their CI competence development, determining knowledge and competence gaps.
• Lead change and move the organization to outperform customer and internal expectations by improving quality, cost, cycle times, delivery and simplifying ways-of-working.
• As a business partner, share the responsibility to achieve financial commitments and overall objectives by establishing a mature Performance Management and Continuous Improvement (CI) capability across the organization, leveraging Philips Excellence methodologies such as: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, Project Management, Change Management and their sustainable implementation.
• Build strong relationships within the strategic IGTD Plymouth, MN site to influence leaders and impact the global business.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired a minimum of 10 years’ relevant working experience in a global technology company, preferably in the Medical Devices industry. Leadership experience in business functions (e.g. R&D, Operations, Service) is a plus.
• Your skills include:
  • A proven track record in Lean/Continuous Improvement and Change Management.
  • You know how to motivate and engage people and possess great networking skills and the ability to enthuse colleagues for Lean culture. You can work with every level of the organization, from work floor to executives.
  • The ability to drive change with a sense of urgency and bias for action.
  • The ability to constructively challenge, create consensus for change, and coach fellow leaders.
• You have a Bachelor’s degree, with a Master’s degree a plus.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position. 
• You are a team player, passionate for results and people. Effective in different cultural environments.
• Travel required, estimated less than 25%.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

• Learn more about our business.
• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.
• Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Plymouth, MN is $139,650 to $239,400.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.    

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here. 

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. 

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Plymouth, MN.

This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran and maintains a drug-free workplace.