Summary of the Position:

To support the Senior Manager, LEAN by using LEAN tools and techniques to drive efficiency, effectiveness and optimization into the US Walgreens products, vendor manufacturing operations, and WBA Asia sourcing internal operations. 

To support the development of a culture of continuous improvement by providing technical learning, and facilitation to cross functional teams over the course of driving daily operations enhancement in HR, Finance, IT, Supply Chain, and Quality.

Responsibilities & Specific Accountabilities include:

• Support the deployment of LEAN strategy, which underpins WBA culture of continuous improvement and embeds end-to-end improvement from sourcing, logistics, and to retail operations
• Take communication ownership for the cross functional LEAN network to ensure that good practice is shared across local Asia Sourcing teams, massive vendor base in the region, and with Global Sourcing & Supplies colleagues in UK and US
• Work with teams to establish a robust understanding of "fitness for purpose" to ensure that products and supporting processes are simplified with less wastage
• Maintain high visibility of supplier performance and drive improvements and vigilance in terms of supplier conformance to Ethical requirements
• Lead or facilitate business process change initiatives, ensuring cross functional colleagues actively contribute in the improvement event, through the skill of change management and broad knowledge of functional operations process (HR, FIN, IT, logistics, quality, and etc.)
• Deliver a thorough LEAN induction to new joiners in cooperation with HR
• Periodic technical training and on-job coaching to internal employees to support improved ways of working and deployment of LEAN tools and techniques
• Work with Senior Manager of LEAN to deliver LEAN Expert workshop, and facilitate certification program of LEAN Expert
• Provide training workshop for massive vendor base within Asia region
• Support dialogue across cross-functional teams in HK to ensure that we leverage our increasing LEAN knowledge for better and efficient internal processes
  
  

Key Position Requirements:

• University graduate in operations, industrial engineering, business and procurement discipline
• Minimum 5 years full-time LEAN practical experience in a product development/manufacturing/sourcing environment, with a track record of deploying LEAN tools and techniques to drive value stream improvements
• Six Sigma training and certification to Black Belt level
• LEAN training and certification as Champion, Navigator, Captain, and etc.
• Experience of change management and facilitation, including the cultural aspects of change
• Good communication & influencing skills with ability to influence cross functional colleagues (outside traditional reporting lines) and external third party vendors 
• Excellent data analysis, reporting and presentation skill, attention to detail
• Energized, Ability to see the big picture and identify opportunities
• Proficient in English, Mandarin and Cantonese

The role requires a mixture of project management, training, coaching, facilitating others working on projects and routinely requires constructive challenge of the status quo. It’s typical change agent role that requires exceptional change management skill across all levels of internal organization and massive supplier factories in Asia region.

For more information about us, please visit http://walgreensbootsalliance.com, http://www.boots.com/and http://www.walgreens.com/

Interested parties, please send your CV with expected salary and availability.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Information collected will be treated in strict confidence and be used for recruitment related purpose only. All personal data of unsuccessful applicants will be retained for 6 months for future recruitment purpose and will then be destroyed.