Manufacturing and Operational Excellence Project Manager (Contract) at Atrium in US-MA-Boston

Job description

• Role/Title: VMC Operational Excellence Project Manager
• W2
• Full time on site in Boston
• 12 month contract

Responsibilities

• Operational Excellence and Process Improvement
• Lead process discovery and assessment activities across manufacturing and business operations.
• Develop SIPOCs, process maps, and Value Stream Maps.
• Apply Lean Six Sigma tools to identify waste, bottlenecks, rework, delays, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and future-state design to translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Facilitation and Stakeholder Engagement
• Plan and facilitate workshops that drive alignment, consensus, and decision-making across stakeholder groups.
• Manage competing perspectives and resolve process definition gaps to establish a shared understanding of current-state operations.
• Communicate findings, recommendations, risks, and progress updates to operational teams and leadership audiences.
• Own the data pull and visual assembly for recurring reporting (e.g. project updates).
• Maintain project tracking and status synthesis for daily check-ins and leadership updates.
• Serve as first responder on ad-hoc data and analysis requests from stakeholders.
• Design and build a standardized value stream data architecture with reusable schema definitions.
• Consolidate historical Value Stream Analysis (VSA) work into a single, quarriable baseline dataset.
• Build a standard benefits logic library, ROI calculator, and integrated Value Register that ties baseline to intervention to measured outcome.
• Build standard benefits logic library defining calculations for time savings, throughput improvement, cycle time reduction, rework reduction, and cost avoidance
• Develop ROI calculator tool enabling consistent, defensible benefit quantification
• Create integrated OpEx Value Register linking baseline → intervention → measured outcome → dollar value with supporting evidence
• Operational Excellence & Process Improvement
• Develop validated SIPOC diagrams, process maps, and Value Stream Maps for targeted business and manufacturing processes.
• Conduct process assessments that identify bottlenecks, waste, rework, delays, handoff issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and future-state design activities, resulting in actionable recommendations and prioritized improvement opportunities.
• Deliver executive-ready summaries that communicate key findings, recommendations, expected benefits, and implementation considerations.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Plan and facilitate cross-functional workshops, interviews, and process discovery sessions.
• Establish stakeholder alignment on current-state process definitions, key pain points, and future-state opportunities.
• Operational Support
• Ad-hoc data pulls, analysis and project update requests.
• (Optional) Build a small library of reusable slide layouts for recurring reporting formats.
• Value Stream Data Architecture + Benefits Framework
• Standardized value stream baseline schema with canonical definitions for cycle time, queue time, rework loops, gate timestamps, resource allocation, and yield
• Consolidated historical VSA dataset in standardized schema forming a single, comparable dataset across programs and time periods.
• Build Power BI monitoring dashboards to track TAT trends, flags regressions, and shows before/after for active improvement initiatives.
• Documented standard benefits logic with locked assumptions for each benefit type we commonly claim (time savings, throughput improvement, cycle time reduction, rework reduction, cost avoidance)
• Build a lightweight ROI calculator (one tool, select benefit type, plug in values, get a defensible number).
• Integrated Value System
• Build the OpEx Value Register: single source of truth logging every initiative with baseline, intervention, measured outcome, benefit type, calculated ROI, and linked evidence.
• Integrate the Value Register with the VSA dataset (shared identifiers, traceable chain from value stream state to intervention to outcome to dollar value).
• Scenario modeling capability using baseline dataset (e.g., "if we cut queue time at Gate X by 20%, what's the expected TAT impact?").
• Establish a repeatable workflow for exec-ready value stories that pulls from the Register and VSA data rather than rebuilding from scratch.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience independently leading Operational Excellence, Lean Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, or business process improvement initiatives.
• Hands-on experience developing SIPOC diagrams, process maps, and value stream maps.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, including experience leading cross-functional workshops, root cause analysis, and consensus-building activities.
• Strong analytical capability using Excel and at least one advanced analytics approach or tool, such as Python, SQL, Power BI, or a comparable platform, to analyze operational performance and quantify improvement opportunities.
• Experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing, including familiarity with GxP environments.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, or equivalent certification and applied experience.
• Experience developing business cases, ROI models, value registers, benefits-tracking frameworks, and value realization methodologies.
• Experience with advanced analytics, process visualization, or process-mapping tools such as Power BI, Snowflake, Visio, Miro, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.

Skills

Required

• Operational Excellence
• Lean Six Sigma
• Continuous Improvement
• Business process improvement
• SIPOC diagrams
• Process mapping
• Value stream mapping
• Facilitation
• Stakeholder management
• Cross-functional workshops
• Root cause analysis
• Consensus-building

Preferred

• GxP environments
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Business cases
• ROI models
• Value registers
• Benefits-tracking frameworks
• Value realization methodologies

Benefits

• $80 - $85/HR