Associate Manager, Continuous Improvement R2r

Who we Want :

• Leader. Provide overall management and leadership to team of HR professionals.
• Problem Solver. Analyzes root causes of work environment issues; manages interventions and solutions in collaboration and cooperation with key stakeholders. Demonstrated conflict resolution skills.
• Consultant. Strong facilitation, consulting, relationship-building, influence, negotiation skills, and project management skills.
• Analytically driven and oriented. Demonstrated business and analytical ability with a proven ability to build relationships and influence different groups.

What you will do : The Continuous Improvement Associate manager has a critical role to set the strategy for continuous improvement and build the roadmap for its implementation within the Costa Rican / European Finance Shared Service Centre.

Provide support to finance areas to growing its continuous improvement capability by deploying strategies to instill the CI mindset across different professional levels (analysts, supervisors, managers and senior managers)

Education & desire trainings :

• Minimum of a B.S. in Industrial Engineering or similar disciplines.
• Fluent spoken and written English. Any other language is a plus
• Knowledgeable in Minitab, R and other statistical software
• Green Belt / Black Belt certified
• Experience in improvements in Finance
• Experience in R2R
• PMP / Agile Certified is a plus
• Data Analytics is a plus
• Knowledge in Power Bi

Qualifications & experience :

• Over 5 years in the field of continuous improvement driving projects through Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
• Capable to manage stakeholders at different levels of the organization, identify customer requirements (CTQ) in projects, management communication. Excellent negotiation skills to interact with stakeholders.
• Experience deploying Process Excellence models (Shingo or similar) in Service Center environments; Assist with change strategy development and the implementation into the organization.
• Provided training in Continuous Improvement methodologies and tools.
• Experience in the A3 thinking
• Experience in leading improvement workshops (Kaizen Events) from opportunity, analysis (FMEA, Value stream mapping), root cause analysis, brainstorming for solution and implementation.
• Familiar with deployment on RPA OR Automation strategies and its relationship to a CI framework. Support on change management. Experience creating process flow diagrams and technical specifications for RPA projects.

Know someone at Stryker? : About Stryker : Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.