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Job Description

Overview of the role.

The BD Excellence Senior Director Europe will be responsible to drive the adoption and execution of the BD Excellence vision and strategy in Europe to support structured growth and innovation across various business and functional areas.

You will be a key partner in our journey to BD Excellence, acting as reference and advisor to the Europe Leadership Team (ELT) and will support the leadership team in owning the Continuous Improvement process, with emphasis on visual management, problem solving and KAIZEN, assisting in deploying of strategic plans, ensuring alignment through cascading indicators top-down and bottom-up, taking the lead on delivering and coaching BD Excellence across the Europe BUs and Functions.

This is a phenomenal opportunity for a dynamic and ground-breaking leader with strong commercial experience and expertise in business operations, process optimization, and organisational change, and highly capable of getting results in a matrix organization.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Leadership Influence and Organizational Transformation

• Serve as a trusted partner to the Europe Leadership Team, influencing business performance, organizational capability, and long-term growth.
• Represent Europe within the Global BD Excellence community, shaping enterprise standards and sharing protocols.

BD Excellence Strategy Development and Deployment:

• Serve as the principal BD Excellence advisor to the EVP President Europe and Europe Leadership Team, partnering to shape strategic priorities, resource allocation decisions, and business performance improvements across the region.
• Act as the steward of Europe Strategic Deployment, ensuring critical growth, profitability, customer, and transformation objectives are translated into executable plans with clear accountability, governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Challenge, influence, and coach senior leaders to apply BD Excellence principles in strategic decision-making, organizational design, and business planning processes.
• Facilitate leadership forums by challenging assumptions, surfacing organizational risks, and ensuring decisions are based on data, customer impact, and enterprise priorities.
• Partner with Business Unit, Functional, and Regional leaders to identify systemic barriers to execution and lead cross-functional interventions that unlock growth, improve organizational effectiveness, and strengthen strategic alignment.
• Lead the design and facilitation of executive strategy deployment workshops, operational reviews, and transformation initiatives, ensuring priorities are properly funded, resourced, and embedded into business operations.
• Drive adoption of an open, fact-based management culture, promoting visibility of performance challenges and accelerating enterprise problem-solving across Europe.

Enterprise Transformation and Continuous Improvement

• Lead implementation of enterprise-wide BD Excellence initiatives across Europe
• Sponsor major transformation programs that improve growth, profitability, customer experience, and organizational effectiveness
• Establish mechanisms to find opportunities, prioritize improvement initiatives, and ensure sustainable adoption and benefits realization
• Drive innovation, digitalization, and continuous improvement methodologies across Business Units and Functions

Cultivate BD Excellence culture and Capability Development:

• Build organizational capability and leadership ownership of BD Excellence across Europe, ensuring sustainable adoption and business impact
• Coach and develop leaders to embed continuous improvement, accountability, and customer-centric thinking into day-to-day operations
• Foster a culture of transparency, problem-solving, and continuous improvement across Business Units and Functions
• Develop the next generation of BD Excellence leaders and strengthen succession and capability pipelines across the region

Education

University bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or a related field is required.

MBA or equivalent business experience preferred.

LEAN Six Sigma/KAIZEN certification, with proficient knowledge of Process and LEAN techniques in a commercial setting.

Experiences

• Relevant career in Sales and Marketing Leadership roles.
• Broad Commercial Experience with a consistent track record of driving processes to achieve results, ideally with experience as a sales rep, sales leader, and in commercial operations.
• Preferably successful experience in the medical devices, clinical diagnostics and capital equipment markets. 
• Significant career experience in an organization where a business system is part of the culture and the core tools of visual management, problem solving, KAIZEN are embedded in all aspects of the business.
• Change champion. Ability to drive culture and change. BD Excellence is still fairly new to BD and Europe and this individual will need to drive the change management journey
• Ability to gain followership and get results.
• Positive attitude and ability to work closely with entire leadership team to motivate change, continuous improvement, and engagement throughout the organization
• Entrepreneurial approach. Individual who can drive progress with limited oversight.
•  Committed individual who is highly proactive at solving problems and obtaining results.
• True love of continuous improvement, measuring results, and problem solving Demonstrated success in driving business impact through CI and Kaizen initiatives, particularly in a commercial organization and under fast-changing environment.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong understanding of the Europe regulation, market and business environment and BD commercial and operation excellence Principle, frameworks and methodologies.
• Successful in a highly matrixed organization and capable of overcoming ambiguity in large-scale organizational change efforts.
• View the business from a broad perspective while adapting to fast-changing environments, demonstrating flexible planning and follow-through skills. Ensure the focus of resources and time on priorities.

In addition, this person should also possess:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build a coalition of support from partners and successfully motivate change in matrix environment with multiple partners.
• Ability to translate strategic direction into execution – action orientation and drive for results coupled with a true “hands on” attitude 
• Dynamic and engaging presence capable of inspiring others and operate with strong personal integrity.
• Systems thinking approach for effective problem solving required.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required, c.50-70%.

Required Leadership Capabilities and Competencies

Deliver results that matter

• Demonstrates firm determination and resolve, embraces new insights, adjusts as needed and consistently delivers priorities in the right way.

Start and end with the customer

• We deliver experiences and solutions customers value by trying new things, taking risks, challenging the norm and driving innovation in products and processes.

Find and solve problems where the work happens

• We challenge the status quo to identify problems and make real-time improvements at Gemba. We don’t settle – we always seek to improve.

Learn and improve every day

• We continuously set the standard. We relentlessly improve our ideas, products, solutions, services and processes to drive the transformation of healthcare globally. We are curious and never stop learning.

Job location is Eysins, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Relocation support will be provided for the right individual.

Why Join Us?

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.

We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.

To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers.

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