Operations Process Excellence SME
Date: Dec 18, 2024
Location: Athlone, L, IE
Company: Teleflex
About Teleflex Incorporated
As a global provider of medical technologies, Teleflex is driven by our purpose to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. Through our vision to become the most trusted partner in healthcare, we offer a diverse portfolio with solutions in the therapy areas of anesthesia, emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and radiology, surgical, vascular access, and urology. We believe that the potential of great people, purpose-driven innovation, and world-class products can shape the future direction of healthcare.
Teleflex is the home of Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, QuikClot™, LMA™, Pilling™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ – trusted brands united by a common sense of purpose.
At Teleflex, we are empowering the future of healthcare. For more information, please visit teleflex.com.
Position Summary
This is a key position in the Global Operations Command Centre. The command centre is responsible for the development and delivery of best-in-class system optimization and standard work practices. The team also supports in defining the business requirements for analytics and insights in support of Global Supply Chain strategies and decision-making processes.
With ongoing collaboration between the Business, IT and Project teams, this position will provide guidance on the optimum system setup for automation and planning objective. The role also involves defining and documenting end to end Supply Chain processes, driving continuous improvement initiatives and acting as a subject matter expert in all areas of supply chain.
Principal Responsibilities
• Customer focused with a view to ensuring supply chain support of customer facing functions
• Support Global Operations Command Centre Analytics team in gathering business requirements for reporting and metrics
• Act as business representative for the IT function, determine and understand business requirements and translate this into technical requirements for IT, focus in areas of order commits, regulatory product versions and supply chain available to promise optimisation
• Act as a subject matter expert in end-to-end supply chain including inputs, processes and outputs, as well as tools and data to support exceptions management scenarios and support in root cause analysis
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and partner with other functions across the company to drive projects from idea to completion
• Ensure global consistency of new systems and processes
• Build knowledge repositories and drive innovation/creativity throughout supply chain
• Drive weekly/monthly/quarterly metric and business pulse reviews to support business in determining key issues, optimized quick win solutions and project status updates
• Analyse business fundamentals, operational performance, and relative benchmarking positions to recommend solutions to business problems
• Act as project point of contact for operations in cross functional and global projects
Education / Experience Requirements
• ERP / Planning Systems knowledge
• CRM/OTC experience
• Experience of 5+ years in a complex supply chain or order to cash position with regional or Global exposure
• Experience with managing significant change or business transformation
• Can lead, inspire and develop a regional team to innovate and deliver in a complex matrixed organisation.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision
• Ability to translate complex situations into simple solutions
• Applies systems-thinking approach to lead solution development
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively across multiple organisation levels
• Has excellent influencing, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills
• Proven ability to drive change and continuous process improvement
• 5 years minimum of industry experience
• Understanding of medical device regulatory requirements
• Experience with data analytic tools such as Power Query, Tableau a bonus
• International experience working cross border, cross time zone, and cross functional
Specialized Skills / Other Requirements
• Professional and positive approach
• Diligent with attention to detail
• Good organizational skills
• Ability to cope under pressure
• Collaborates well
• Ability to multi-task
• Self-motivated & self-sufficient
• Effective communicator at all levels
• Team player, and able to work on own initiative
• Assertive, flexible & adaptable
Key Relationships / Interfaces
• Global Operations Senior Leadership Team
• Plant Managers, Program Managers, IT Community
• Stakeholders across the Global Supply Chain and support functions.
• Manufacturing Leadership and middle management
• Customer Service teams
• Quality & Regulatory teams
Travel Required - 20% Working Environment: 3 days a week based in the Athlone Office / 2 days Remote.
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Teleflex is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to age, gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion and/or membership of the traveller community.
If you require accommodation and support to apply for a position, please contact us at talent.emea@teleflex.com.
Diversity fosters innovative thinking and entrepreneurship and that’s what we are about at Teleflex. We trust and value our people and their diversity and we make it fun to work here. We are on a journey to ensure our workplaces mirror the patients we serve and the communities we operate in. Our approach is simple, we embrace everyone and want them to feel they belong here. We are building a culture where all employees can bring their best and unique selves to work. If that appeals to you, we would love to hear from you. Come join a company where diversity is sought out and inclusivity is how we progress.
At Teleflex, we follow a comprehensive hiring process. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from agency recruiters or 3rd party firms. We do not make unsolicited job offers. We do not ask for money or require equipment purchase up-front.
Teleflex, the Teleflex logo, Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, QuikClot™, LMA™, Pilling™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Teleflex Incorporated or its affiliates, in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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