Corteva Agriscience Looking for Six Sigma Black Belt (IT) at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

The Quality, Productivity and Effectiveness (QPE) team proactively and holistically helps guide the organization through quality, portfolio, and vendor management initiatives.

As the QPE Black Belt, you will leverage Lean, PMP, and Six Sigma methodologies to develop process improvements, drive increased IT and Business productivity, and enhance and sustain operational excellence throughout IT offerings. Focus will be on driving continuous and breakthrough improvement in IT efficiency and effectiveness in support of achieving best-in-class IT products and services. Programs will be in disparate geographic locations and require strong communication skills to coordinate teams across the portfolio.

Leads the development of organizational quality initiative program for Corteva IT; using project mentoring, quality tool training and governance.

Promotes the business value of quality program as an enabler of productivity, which drives the organization’s top and bottom lines.

Act as Black Belt coach for team and organization.

Measure, monitor, and maintain the team’s ability to meet or exceed quality KPI’s.

Act as a change agent/coach to instill and sustain change.

Demonstrated translation of quality methodologies into frameworks and work practices.

Develop and share best practices among the organization.

Experienced process improvement practitioner with a focus on driving organizational efficiencies in cycle time and cost reduction.

Leads company wide quality projects to reduce defects and improve efficiencies for Corteva products.

Execute complex process improvement initiatives.

Leads the creation and maturing of the quality practice into an internal management consultancy.

Identify and present new project opportunities to leadership.

Leads defects investigations through root cause analysis.

Report and communicate results from efforts to stakeholders at all levels.

Ensures control and training plans are in place and executed to sustain change.

Utilize process improvement principles and tools to achieve significant improvement results.

Qualifications

Requires BS/BA degree from an accredited college or university preferable in a technical discipline.

Black Belt/Green Belt certification or equivalent experience.

Certification programs in Lean Six Sigma, Agile, ITIL, Quality Improvement associate, quality auditor, and quality engineer.

10+ years of Information Technology and/or Quality experience.

5+ years of experience managing large, global quality Six Sigma projects.

Experience with core IT service concepts and strategy.

Experience managing conflict, escalations, negotiating compromise and influencing others and problem solving.

Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, and ITIL frameworks.

Strong Quantitative and problem-solving ability: Ability to conceptualize complex problems and develop an analytical road map for them.

Demonstrates the ability to facilitate meetings to generate ideas and make key decisions.

Creates a team environment of accountability and commitment for reaching project goals

Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

Strong leadership skills.

Self-driven, problem solver.

Excellent analytical and technical skills.

Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Excellent planning and organizational skills.

Ability to successfully manage cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders and varying levels of management.

Experience as a leader and mentor for project teams in a matrixed environment.