Senior Value Stream Manager
**Main Purpose of Job**:
- Leading the sustaining activities of their value streams regarding people, safety, quality, production, financials & operational excellence.
- Actively supporting sustaining and new launches activities regarding engineering, planning, procurement, deliveries & maintenance.
- Promoting outstanding work environment within their value streams, ensuring communication, respect, recognition, inclusion & dialogue are at the operations bases.
- Developing proactive & perdurable interrelationships between the value streams and other functional support departments, assuring the value streams are compliant with established policies and procedures set forth by the company.
- Performing as the main customer interface with Viant, delivering a world class customer service experience.
**Responsibilities**:
- Manage direct and indirect resources to accomplish business goals.
- Maintain morale and employee relations. Promptly recognize milestones completion, quality related achievements & go beyond attitudes.
- Develop, sustain & enhance working networks within and between departments.
- Promote a safe work environment by sponsoring continuous improvement initiatives around EHS.
- Ensure next level (downstream) routinely performance and development reviews by setting and maintaining individual and group sessions based on established objectives & desirable career paths.
- Coach and develop direct resources to help achieve IDPs.
- Coach and develop direct and indirect resources to help achieve IDPs.
- Lead value stream members while seeking excellence in all quality & compliance related metrics and goals.
- Ensure value stream business units profitability by hitting or exceeding financial projections; manage all required improvements towards materials usage, labor efficiency, overhead expenses & sales achievement.
- Promote & lead value improvement projects (VIPs) and OpEx initiatives to enhance profitability.
- Manage production upstream planning & programming to ensure reaching business goals
- Act as the liaison between the value stream team, the company & the customer.
- Support Business Development on liability negotiations with customers when agreements have been broken or any condition has been dismissed.
- Support Business Development initiatives with current or potential customers.
- Develop and deploy performance/reporting improvement ideas & tools for value streams under responsibility.
- Develop and deploy performance/reporting improvement ideas & tools through all value streams and departments.
- Support new launches as required.
- Provide business status reports to customer and upper management (local/PLT). Generate appropriate content for such review.
- Provide business status reports to customer and upper management (local and corporate). Generate appropriate content for such review.
Knowledge / Education
- Bachelor´s Degree in Engineering or Business related field.
- Basic knowledge in Microsoft Excel (Format, basic formulas, etc).
- Intermediate knowledge in Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, Advance formulas, macros etc).
- Advanced knowledge in production management (lean tools, line balance (applicable for assembly VSTs), product costing, MUV, labor efficiency, etc)
- Basic knowledge in applicable safety procedures.
- Bilingual English/Spanish - Advanced intermediate English level (B2 minimum)
- Intermediate knowledge in supply chain planning (Forecast, supply & demand, MRP, purchasing lead times, manufacturing lead times, level loading, BOMs)
- Intermediate knowledge on finance (MUV, P&L statement, PPV)
Job Experience
- At least 6 years in a production management role (i.e. Operations Superintendent, Value Stream Manager I, Value Stream Manager II)
- At least 6 years of experience in people management (Production supervisors, VST members) with demonstrated results of development initiatives (i.e. IDP, turnover, promotions, corrective action plans, terminations).
- Demonstrated partnership with peers to achieve business results.
- Experience within the medical device manufacturing field or in any other regulated industry
- Demonstrated successful customer interaction experience (Customer feedback, KPIs management, etc).
- Demonstrated successful interaction experience with difficult customers (Customer feedback, KPIs management, etc).
- Demonstrated experience with customers with at least 2 different customer representative.
- Experience executing successful ramps for new product introduction launches.
- Demonstrated experience interacting with commercial team.
Viant provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Viant complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimin