Zentiva
Senior Executive I - Operations Excellence Specialist
India / Ankleshwar
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- 3 Oct 2026
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JOB TITLE
Senior Executive I - Operations Excellence Specialist
REQUIREMENTS
Education / Experience
Education: Diploma / Graduate/ Post Graduate in Pharmacy
Experience: At least 1 to 5 years in the Pharmaceutical plant.
Technical skills &
Competencies / Language
- Open-minded, open to changes, curious, flexible.
- Impulse ambitious Performance challenges.
- Rigorous in applying standards and Lean methodology.
- Ability to propose initiatives and action plans.
- Collaborate effectively with peers.
- General understanding of Performance vision and principles.
- Ability to understand the general scope and priorities.
- Ability to convince and lead teams.
- Ability to understand the general scope and priorities.
- Pragmatic, driven by Gemba’s and accurate.
JOB PURPOSE
Generic
- Support industrial performance: X matrix - create, maintain, track Monthly Transformation Review
- Support Lean activities , data analysis and KPI reporting.
- Support in improving processes, coordinate and drive initiatives to develop, implement and sustain cost reduction improvement, in reference to Zentiva Quality and HSE standards.
- Ensure that appropriate performance follow-up tools are implemented and consolidated in reference to corporate standards or to site requirements.
- Support in Managing the follow-up of the score card / monthly report and performance KPIs, analyze and ensure coordination of action plans regarding major deviations on OEE, Cash flow, Plant Cycle Time, Yields, Productivity.
- Be the window person for shopfloor performance initiatives.
- Ensure sustenance of established lean operating standards & their process confirmation.
- Ensure the follow-up of the performance results and adapt action plans accordingly.
- Support/ Initiate VSK i.e. Gemba Kaizen workshops & trainings.
- Propose & support initiatives to implement successful troubleshooting and debottlenecking of process flows.
- Make proposals to implement the best practices at site level.
- Support / Implement the strategy (Top down cascading) by activating the Lean & Performance site network.
Specific additions (if needed)
Not Applicable
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Improve processes, coordinate and drive initiatives to develop, implement and sustain cost reduction improvement, in reference to Zentiva Quality and HSE standards.
- Analyze organizational fit and impulse innovative organizational changes at Site level for production and Support
- Make sure that appropriate performance follow-up tools are implemented and consolidated in reference to
- corporate standards or to site requirements.
- Manage the follow-up of the score card / monthly report and performance KPIs, analyze and ensure coordination of action plans regarding major deviations on OEE, Productivity, Plant Cycle Time, Yields.
- Analyze and challenge all investment projects as far as performance analysis is concerned.
- Be the window person with Central Functions on performance projects.
Manager
Lean Programs:
- Coordinate the means and resources requirement for the optimization of the site performance.
- Cascade locally Lean Program based on the plants challenges and priorities (workshops, training …).
- Ensure the follow-up of the performance results and adapt action plans accordingly.
- Coach and support the Performance Leaders and Team Members.
- Play an active role in the inter-site lean network.
Methods:
Analyze discrepancies between standards and actuals and suggest appropriate action plans and follow-up
database in collaboration with Controlling.
Project Management
Contribute to the prioritization of site projects and the resolution of major issues.
Prospective Capacity Analysis:
Propose all initiatives to implement successful troubleshooting and debottlenecking of process flows related to equipment’s.
Benchmarking
- Build a network internally and externally to organize benchmark studies related to the best practices in our industry or close to our industry.
- Make proposals to implement the best practices at site level.
- Participate actively to the Company benchmark studies (e.g. Pobos )
Performance Mindset
Promote a performance mindset at all site levels through Lean events, standardization and simplification initiatives, collaborators priorities setting up and review, recognition system, learning organization…
Strategy Implementation
- Help in the site strategy definition – Bottom up relay of information to help the top management decision making
- Implement the strategy by activating the Lean & Performance site network
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