Requistion ID: 83148

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

Bringing out the best in people

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.

Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to:

Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.

Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.

Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.

Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.

We are looking for a Regional Lean Leader (m/f/d) to build and sustain Lean Enterprise capability across a regional network of manufacturing, distribution, and back-office sites. In this role, you will partner closely with site leadership to identify improvement opportunities and deploy the Lean Enterprise System (LES), supported by a network of Lean Ambassadors.

You will drive measurable improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Cost, and Productivity (SQDICP), with a strong emphasis on lead-time improvement and waste reduction in a regulated medical device environment.

Tasks

• Deploy and standardize the Lean Enterprise System (LES) across multiple sites
• Partner with Site Leaders and OpEx/CI teams to assess current state, develop Lean roadmaps, and ensure long-term sustainment
• Build Lean capability through training, coaching, and mentoring of leaders, engineers, supervisors, and Lean Ambassadors
• Facilitate kaizen events and structured problem-solving initiatives
• Establish KPI governance and ensure transparency and sustainment of improvements
• Enable cross-site best-practice sharing and replication
• Partner with Finance to validate and sustain savings
• Ensure all improvements comply with quality, regulatory, and change-control requirement

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in Manufacturing Continuous Improvement / Operational Excellence
• Multi-site experience preferred; site management experience is a plus
• Lean and/or Six Sigma certification (Green Belt / Black Belt preferred)

• A hands-on personality with a strong “can-do” mentality

• Ability to lead through influence, coach leaders, and drive sustainable change
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Fluency in English (C1) und German (C1)
• Willingness to travel 40-50%

Job Details:

• Permanet, fulltime
• Eingruppierung: AT
• Gesellschaft: SDS, Bensheim
• HR Kontakt: Andrea Schmitt

Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in Dentsply Sirona.

If you need assistance with completing the online application due to a disability, please send an accommodation request to careers@dentsplysirona.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Request” in the subject.