Director, Operational Excellence Change Leader

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role:

As a member of the Site Leadership team the role will be expected to work as an enterprise leader to establish and execute the site strategy.   

From a functional standpoint, the Operational Excellence Leader will provide a Drive for Continuous Improvement – being consumed by an overriding need to do better; unsettle others’ acceptance of the status quo.

Enabling Others by Inspiring/energising them to achieve more than they thought they could; respecting and acknowledging the needs and contributions of other; Coaching and leading others in the implementation of Operational Excellence (OpEx) principles at the Speke site.  

This role will be responsible for completing the necessary training, owning the annual OpEx Programme (including the annual lean maturity assessment and PMO for the annual cost savings plan) engraining the concepts of OpEx philosophy into the organization, training appropriate individuals in OpEx concepts, partnering with leaders at the sites to continuously improve the OpEx culture.  

Your Responsibilities:


* Manage annual cost savings plan (% of operating expenses).

To include the PMO of the Transformation programme 



* Coach, Train and help instill key OpEx principles, tools and practices, throughout the site 



* Provide analysis of business results and metrics to ensure that targeted areas for improvement are realized.

Including the annual Site Lean Maturity Self Assessment.  



* Partner with 1.

business leaders to develop OpEx goals for the various departments and site; 2.

all levels of organization to develop employees’ ability to convert continuous improvement ideas into action and realized value.  



* Develop and implement OpEx management control system(s) throughout, utilizing monthly metrics as part of the foundation. 



* Participate in Change Agent and Change leader network across the global organization and identify replication opportunities.  

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):



* Ideally Black Belt but Minimum Gren Belt Trained: a sens...