AIS Heartbeat Lean, Senior Director

Job Description Summary The AIS Heartbeat Lean, Senior Director is a high-impact, enterprise-level role responsible for leading critical Lean transformation initiatives across the Advanced Imaging Solutions (AIS) Segment. Reporting to the AIS Executive Lean Leader, this role serves as a strategic deployment leader, mobilized against the most critical business challenges, performance gaps, and strategic priorities. This leader operates across innovation, commercial, integrated supply chain, and service to diagnose issues, stabilize performance, and deliver measurable business outcomes. Success in this role requires deep Lean expertise, strong business acumen, and the ability to lead cross-functional transformation efforts in complex, fast-paced, global environments. The AIS Heartbeat Lean, Senior Director partners with senior executives, sub-segment leaders, and site leadership teams to accelerate results by driving Kaizen, building capability, and embedding the Heartbeat Business System into how the business operates. This role is accountable for delivering measurable improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Cash, while modeling and reinforcing Lean culture across the AIS organization. The AIS Heartbeat Lean, Senior Director will lead a team of AIS Heartbeat Lean practioners to support the AIS business. Job Description Key Responsibilities: Enterprise Transformation Delivery Deploy into highest-priority business challenges to drive rapid performance stabilization and breakthrough results Lead end-to-end transformation initiatives from diagnostics through sustained execution Deliver measurable improvements across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Cash Problem Solving & Performance Gap Closure Diagnose performance gaps through deep genba engagement and data-driven analysis Lead structured problem solving (A3, root cause) to eliminate systemic issues Ensure clear ownership, actions, and follow-through tied to business KPIs Kaizen & Flow Acceleration Desi