Job purpose:

• The Master Black Belt (MBB) is widely recognized as a Lean Six Sigma ‘Senior Matter Expert’ in and outside their business area and has deep understanding and advanced knowledge of the DMAIC methodology, tools and techniques.

• The MBB, in close collaboration with the senior leadership team members, will identify opportunities to deliver strategic imperatives. They will act as a key driver for the step changes on the Belgian site, developing sustainable capability within the business and realizing significant financial benefit.

• The MBB uses their expertise to support business areas/functions with the identification, sequencing and scoping of improvement opportunities in unfamiliar situations, to support the delivery of strategic imperatives and financial impact by reduction of variability and simplification of processes through the Lean Six Sigma methodology. They will lead the resolution of the most complex level of problem solves in Belgium and will form part of a small number of MBB’s in Vaccines available to support the highest level of escalations via the Global Operations and Quality Leadership Team.

• The MBB is the ‘guardian’ of the DMAIC methodology and supports the building and strengthening of the Lean and Six Sigma ecosystem across GIO/Q Belgium (circa 400 people), a critical component of the GPS acceleration.

• The MBB coaches, develops and strengthens Green & Black Belt capabilities in GIO/Q Belgium to ensure Lean Six Sigma opportunities are executed in the most effective and efficient way.

• The MBB builds and maintains a global network in the Belgian Vaccines Organisation and broader CI community, and actively connects with the CI Central team to ensure alignment with the Global Standards.

• The MBB embeds Lean Six Sigma principles in their daily work and actively demonstrates a real CI mindset. They uses their excellent influencing and negotiation skills at all levels of the organisation to support the Change Management required to have sustainable impact and results

Your responsibilities:

• Support and coach Senior Leaders and CI Team Members during the preparation and application of the Strategy Deployment Process (Hoshin):

• Convert Operational Strategy and Goals into Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC) initiatives to deliver business requirements

• Deliver balanced scorecard aspirations while developing Lean Six Sigma capabilities across GIO/Q Belgium

• Support and coach Senior Leaders and CI Team Members with the identification of both financial and non-financial benefits associated with Lean Six Sigma improvement projects

• Ensure the timely delivery of project results that meet or exceed agreed metrics or goals

• Structure identified business issues and challenges

• Conduct in-depth data analyses (including data collection and synthesis) to generate key insights for projects or Lean deployment strategies.

• Lead rapid resolution of complex business problems using structured DMAIC problem solving

• Accelerate the deployment of the Belt Ecosystem:

• Support GB/BB candidates with the completion of their project charters

• Mentor and coach GB/BB candidates during their certification projects

• Properly prepare GB/BB candidates for the Tollgate Reviews organized by the Central CI Team.

• Support active Belts with scoping, sequencing, tool selection and more complex statistical analyses

• Actively participate to Lean Six Sigma Capability Building and Knowledge Sharing

• Act as ‘Guardian’ of the Lean Six Sigma methodology in GIO/Q Belgium and regularly connect with the Central Team to ensure application of the actual Standards

• Accelerate the GSK Production System (GPS) in line with Lean Six Sigma industry trends to deliver best in class performance

• Participate and contribute to the different CI Communities by sharing best practices and lessons learned, and by actively presenting and creating content

• Enable appropriate Change Management on all required levels to ensure sustainable impact of Lean and DMAIC projects:

• Act as a CI role-model and actively promote GPS and DMAIC problem solving

• Apply proper stakeholder management and ensure appropriate Sponsorship of DMAIC projects

• Comfortably operate in a multicultural environment

• Effectively communicate with all levels in the organization

Additional information:

• This role reports into the Head of Continuous Improvement Belgium Operations

• Level of role: Director

• Business travel requirements: limited (less than 10%)

• Expected presence onsite: 3 days/week

• Primary location: Wavre, Belgium

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Minimum Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent

• Minimum 8 years of experience in a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt role in a manufacturing environment or industries such as Pharma, Consumer, Food, Automotive and FMCG

• Master Black Belt Certified

• Ability to lead and drive change, matrix leadership

• Ability to lead and drive improvement initiatives and / or cultural change year on year resulting in both financial and non-financial benefit and behavioural change

• Ability to influence senior leadership and defend informed recommendations

• Ability to simplify complex processes, applying innovative thinking

• Fluency in spoken and written French (must have).

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Highly advanced Lean Six Sigma skills demonstrated in previous projects

• Solid understanding of supply chain processes and interfaces in a bio-pharma environment

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across a matrix environment and to navigate with limited supervision to deliver on business results

• Diagnostic capability to identify improvement opportunities for Lean Six Sigma GB & BB projects

• Coaching skills 

• Influencing and communication / presentation skills

• Strong business acumen

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If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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