Senior Statistician Global Business Excellence Job in Abbott Laboratories

Primary Job Function:

Provides strategic input to global BEx initiatives across Operations. Provides direction and hands-on support to the Business Excellence resources across EPD on the design and implementation of improvements at regions and sites, mainly based on the use of advanced statistical techniques. Manage all aspects of BEx statistical strategy, from start to finish, so that it can adequately support EPD growth and margin targets. Conducts and coordinates advanced statistical analyses to support decision making at the managerial level.

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Provides inputs to strategic, global business excellence strategies and initiatives across operations
• Provides direction and hands-on support to the Regional & local Business Excellence resources across EPD on the design and implementation of improvements
• Design, communicate and implement building of statistical capabilities across Operations to improve data management for respective processes within Quality, Manufacturing, Maintenance and other areas at the regional and global level.
• Identifies and plans improvement projects within the network to improve manufacturing processes at sites.
• Develop the project plan, launches large-scale and complex projects from start to finish, on time and within budget with minimal support, assures all aspect of the project are foreseen, anticipates potential issues and resolves them.
• Coordinates effective and efficient management of Operational / Business Excellence knowledge, tools and standards
• Coordinates the resources at sites to implement projects.
• Leads and supports Lean Six Sigma Initiatives for local and regional Business Excellence functions.
• Designs, trains on and implements advanced data analytics projects in Operations, in collaboration with other functions.
• Supports Specification setting and specification changes based on statistical evaluations.
• Supports the development of KPIs, their measurement and the maintenance of their data collection.

Position Accountability/Scope:

• Provides strategic input to global BEx initiatives across Operations, and implements them through advanced project management techniques by using advanced problem solving tools including statistical tools
• At any given time, the Global BEx Sr Statistician can work with any affiliate or business partner to assure projects are finished on time and within budget.
• The position acts as the key interface to all stakeholders, chairs project teams, coordinates internal and external resources (including consultants) provides clear roles and responsibilities for all team members and takes all necessary actions to ensure on time execution of all tasks assigned to team members.
• Accountable for developing and providing capability building on statistics within the network in collaboration with sites and regions.
• Accountable for developing and implementing the advanced data analytics strategy for Operations in collaboration with other EPD functions (e.g. IT, SMO).

Minimum Experience/Training Required:

• 10 - 15 years experience in Operations
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within complex organizations and collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders
• Good programming skills
• Ability to independently structure and analyze complex situations through statistical tools, ability to understand and go beyond data to draw conclusions
• Advanced root cause problem solving and ability to learn and improve business processes
• Proven communication skills including presentation to DVP level
• Knowledge on statistical exploration software (i.e. R, SAS JMP, MiniTab, SSPS or respective) is a must
• Good understanding of processes and communication skills to work with other functions
• Ability to interpret division strategy and develop programs and projects in support of that strategy which address challenges holistically.
• Master Black Belt