Operational Excellence Regional Deployment Leader (EMEA/AP) (m/f/d)
On-siteStevenage, England, United Kingdom or Mechelen, Flanders, Belgium
Job Summary
Lead the regional DBS implementation roadmap across EMEA and AP Operations, partnering with Integrated Operations Leaders and Domain Directors to deploy DBS Essentials tools and Operational Excellence Playbooks. Define governance, resources, and operating mechanisms aligned to enterprise objectives, while challenging Lines of Business to execute high-impact improvement initiatives in safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity. Coach Operations leaders on leader standard work, daily visual management, and problem-solving discipline to embed DBS routines and drive SQDIP metric improvements. Champion AI, advanced analytics, and automation to accelerate DBS adoption and unlock step-change performance. Build regional CI capability through coaching practitioners and establishing learning mechanisms, leading change across diverse cultures and complex matrix environments with approximately 50% global travel.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Solid progressive leadership experience in delivering operational excellence, and continuous improvement, manufacturing, across a broad range of Manufacturing operations including quality and supply chain, quality, engineering, or related operations environments
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise or regional transformation and driving improvement across multi-site, multi-country operations in a complex global matrix organization
- Extensive experience in deploying Operational Excellence / Lean Manufacturing approaches to drive continuous improvement including policy deployment, leader standard work, daily visual management, value stream mapping, problem solving and kaizen process
- Experience implementing or maturing a structured business system, (such as DBS, the Danaher Business System, Toyota Production System, or comparable enterprise operating system to drive tangible year-on-year performance improvement
- Proven ability to influence and coach senior leaders, align stakeholders around priorities, and create accountability for strategy deployment, execution discipline, and sustained results
- Evidence of leading change and establishing a culture of continuous improvement across a diverse set of geographies and contexts
- Demonstrated ability to apply digital, AI, automation, and analytics-enabled approaches enhance Lean Manufacturing concepts and deliver outsized performance improvements
- Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity, connect improvement work to business strategy, and inspire teams at all organizational levels
- Highly motivated problem solver capable of strategic and tactical thinking
- Highly collaborative and adaptable leadership style, with experience working across cultures, functions, and geographies
- Willingness to travel to manufacturing sites globally, with a travel expectation of approximately ~50% travel
- Fluent English
- Fluent German and/or French and/or any other language
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced degree
- Fluent German and/or French and/or any other language
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