Process Excellence

Job Summary:

As a certified Black Belt (or equivalent), you will act as the Process Excellence expert responsible for being a change catalyst, leading improvement teams and working projects across businesses as part of Covance's Process Excellence initiatives.
A.

Duties and Responsibilities:

X Individual Contributor
B.

People Responsibilities:

 No direct / indirect reports: However, it is critical to interact with all levels of internal staff, other business unit Process Excellence leads, and functional leaders, and clients.
C.

Essential Job Duties:

During this full time assignment, you will be:

• Leading process improvement teams and directing timely completion of projects that support critical goals and customer satisfaction requirements, and serve as the departmental point of contact for specific project initiatives and best practices.
• Working across all Labcorp functions with process owners, champions, and business leaders to facilitate setting priorities, developing agendas and designing objectives related to Labcorp Process Excellence.
• Training, mentoring, coaching, and challenging team members, process owners and project champions in the use of problem solving and process design tools, methodologies and techniques to drive continuous improvement and develop a Labcorp Process Excellence mindset.
• Developing and communicating business cases to support recommendations for change to current business practices and processes, and developing controls to monitor the progress associated with implementation of recommended changes.
• Partnering with multiple levels within the organization identifying and prioritizing opportunities to improve customer satisfaction, enhance productivity, drive growth, further employee engagement and performance. You will be partnering with business unit deployment champions, VP of Quality and other Business Process Improvement Leaders to ensure that best practices are shared across the organization.
• Demonstrating strong project management skills, including an ability to plan and execute projects that meet cost, resource and outcome expectations; manage complex and/or competing priorities effectively; and meet commitments in an accurate and timely manner.
  D. Scope
  
  Describe scope of position (global vs. regional vs. domestic,
  X Domestic – Location(s) within a single country or neighboring countries with similar
  cultures
  _____ Regional – Continental Region (e.g. Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, North America,
  Latin America, Middle East)
  _____ Global – All regions of the world
  Note: Primary scope includes a single region, but leading teams and sharing best practices spans global operations.


Indicate the scope of financial responsibilities (Revenue and/or Budget responsibilities (if applicable)
__________ Annual/Revenue
__________ Annual Operating Budget

E.

Principal Contacts and Scope of Communications:

It is critical to interact with all levels of internal staff, Executive Leadership, other business unit Process Excellence leads, and functional leaders, and clients.

Type of Communication:

Audience
Frequency
Strategic – Manage communications of great importance having long term implications
X Internal
_____ External
_____ Daily
_____ Weekly
X Monthly
_____ Annually
Negotiate – Come to agreement through discussion and compromise – short to medium impact
X Internal
_____ External
X Daily
_____ Weekly
_____ Monthly
_____ Annually
Influence – Effect change where persuasion is required – short term impact
X Internal
X External
X Daily
_____ Weekly
_____ Monthly
_____ Annually
Convey – Communicate information be statement, suggestion, gesture or appearance
X Internal
X External
X Daily
_____ Weekly
_____ Monthly
_____ Annually
F. Travel Requirements: __X Yes _______No
Identify the expected travel requirements of the position
Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

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