VP, Head of WBSO

Job Title - VP, Head of WBSO

Work Location - Remote

JOB SUMMARY: 

The WBSO VP is responsible for promoting and facilitating the successful implementation of the Wuxi Business System at Wuxi Biologics companies. allowing those sites to meet their Policy Deployment (PD) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets.   The WBSO VP helps to create WBS Sustainability both broadly across Wuxi Biologics and in a targeted fashion at mentored BUs / Sites.  Primary work will be in China with some support in Asia as needed.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist in achieving business unit Policy Deployment and Strategic Plan objectives


• Accelerate results in SQDC by leveraging WBS tools, mentoring and consulting skills, and change management process.


• Lead the adoption and use of the WBS Fundamentals throughout China in all functions


• Assist site / company leadership in the development of a WBS roadmap to meet PD/KPI requirements and WBS Sustainability


• Directly provide formal and informal WBS training and coaching at gemba


• Facilitate other WBS training sessions when appropriate (other trainers and consultants from Wuxi Biologics, Shingijutsu, or other)


• Regularly participate in PD reviews


• Continue to evolve WBS tools


• Ensure productive kaizen events


• Promote and facilitate diagnosis of workflow impediments and other wastes throughout the business, and provide expert counsel on appropriate tools to eliminate them


• Promote and facilitate associate development in various WBS tools, lean production, and kaizen leadership


• As Process Tool Owner for select WBS tools, promote the use and improvement of these tools and build a network of global CPs and ACPs to support Wuxi Biologics and BU needs.


• Benchmark and incorporate best practices

Most Important Competencies Required:

• Teamwork - must be able to lead a team(s) of Wuxi Biologics employees from multiple disciplines and/or companies


• Ability to influence others - must be able to inform, convince, and persuade others to action on key initiatives at all levels in the organization (up and down)


• Results orientation - must deliver sustainable results


• Technical excellence - must possess the technical skills necessary to be credible in DHR by peers and managers


• Communication—must be able to effectively communicate in both written and verbal forms


• Followership & Leadership – must understand how to leverage both to drive sustainable change


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JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Must be hands-on and detail-oriented but also able to see the big picture.  Need to be able to think strategically and view the business from a general management standpoint.  Must be very customer focused and have strong interpersonal and communications skills.  Will need to be a quick study who can rapidly adapt to Wuxi Biologics’s culture and gain the confidence of the Wuxi Biologics organization.  This person will be high energy and able to handle conflict.  Will be an independent worker, capable of operating in a fast-moving, ever changing environment and able to effectively deal with difficult situations.  This Leader must have a strong gemba-orientation (spend time and drive change at the ‘real place’ – where the ‘value happens’).

Education and/or Experience:

• 7+ years of Operations or Engineering experience


• BS or BA Degree in Business or Engineering required; Master’s Degree preferred

• Ability to accurately assess key business metrics and situations from a “general manager’s” point of view


• Ability to design, develop, and implement a WBS roadmap for an operating business or site


• Mastery of WBS Fundamentals and a variety of WBS Lean tools 


• Superior communications skills


• Very Good to Excellent English Skills (written and spoken)


• Excellent Chinese skills (written and spoken)


• Superior training skills and adult learning theory


• Superior consulting/influencing skills


• Familiarity with various manufacturing process technologies


• Hands-on experience implementing WBS in a line management role


• Exposure to and participation in a wide variety of training environments


• Good writing and administrative skills, including computer skills (word processing, graphics, spreadsheet, etc.)


• Demonstrated proficiency in time and project management

The job description does not intend to list all the duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. An employee holding this position would be required to perform other job-related duties/responsibilities based on their expertise and the company's business needs.