Senior Manager, Digital Process Optimization

Integra LifeSciences is a global medical technology leader in neurosurgery and regenerative medicine driven by our purpose of restoring patients’ lives. The company offers a broad portfolio of products and innovative solutions for dural access and repair, cerebral spinal fluid management and neuro-critical care. Its regenerative tissue technologies include products that address soft tissue, peripheral nerve and tendon repairs and for the treatment of acute and chronic wounds, burns, as well as for plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Founded in 1989 by Richard E. Caruso, the company is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Today, Integra LifeSciences has grown immensely, with more than 4200 employees worldwide as well as offices, manufacturing and research facilities in Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and the Americas.

Changing lives. Building Careers.

Joining us is a chance to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, our colleagues are challenging what’s possible and making headway to innovate new treatment pathways to advance patient outcomes and set new standards of care.

Integra LifeSciences is a global medical technology leader headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1989, it develops innovative products for neurosurgery, reconstructive and general surgery, and regenerative wound care, including the first FDA-approved artificial skin. By combining advanced surgical tools with biologic regenerative technologies, Integra empowers clinicians to deliver confident, efficient, and impactful patient care worldwide.

Integra Life Sciences is looking for a Senior Manager, Digital Process Optimization with a proven track record of driving enterprise-wide metrics improvements by leaning out processes through the effective deployment of emerging digital technologies that create step-function improvements in high impact process domains. This role would collaborate across functions, identifying processes with significant productivity improvement potential and that directly empower our employee’s efficiency and ability to drive better outcomes for our patients and company performance.

This role will be responsible for driving operational excellence, partnering with business leaders and lean experts to deploy process improvements across the organization, and ensuring sustainable processes meet short and long-term business objectives. This role exists to help the Enterprise Transformation Management Office realize end-to-end process improvements. This role evaluates process, and accountability gaps and designs new ways of working to meet desired business performance and outcomes underpinned by digital tools that can quantify improvements.

The ideal candidate will combine advanced technical expertise in Lean Six Sigma with strong leadership, coaching, and change management skills. The candidate exhibits strong business acumen, communication skills, understanding of corporate finance, and how to write business cases for IT projects and quantify return on investment (ROI).

Travel may be required up to 20%.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Primary responsibilities are to:

Strategic Program Execution & Oversight

• Lead enterprise-level Lean Six Sigma deployments within the IT portfolio.
• Ensure projects deliver measurable financial and operational benefits.
• Standardize best practices and tools for continuous improvement.

Process Management & Governance

• Monitor KPIs to measure process performance and outcomes.
• Build process governance frameworks that drive ongoing accountability.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decisions.

Leadership Alignment & Communication

• Partner with executives to define our process excellence strategy.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on digital-enabled performance optimization.
• Deliver training and mentorship on process excellence topics.

DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required for his position.

• Education : Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical or Business field, master’s degree desirable
• Preferred Certifications: Process Excellence / Six Sigma / Lean / Organizational Change Management / PMP / ITIL / Business Analyst Training / Green or Black Belt
• Experience :
  • 5+ years of industry experience in Life Sciences, Pharma, MedTech, or Biotech in an information technology, business management, supply chain, or commercial operations role.
  • 5+ years of experience leading process improvement initiatives.
  • 5+ years of experience working in, or supporting digital strategy and transformation
  • Extensive experience continuously improving business processes (e.g., Lean, process excellence, value stream mapping).
  • Preferred: Management Consulting experience; executive presentation skills, MedTech regulatory environment.

Additional details:

This is a hybrid role, and the ideal candidate will be based out of Princeton, NJ. The hybrid schedule requires in-office presence on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays.

Integra LifeSciences is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of race, marital status, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status.

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