Continuous Improvement Manager (Medical Devices)

Location: Roosendaal, Netherlands; onsite, full-time role.

Base salary: €90,000–€120,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global is an independent, employee-owned healthcare company that develops, manufactures, and markets medical products and services worldwide.

What you will do

• Redesign receiving, storage, replenishment, picking, value-added services, labeling, shipping, and supporting warehouse processes.
• Apply Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, Kaizen, value stream mapping, root-cause analysis, and standard work to solve complex operational problems.
• Improve labor productivity, throughput, capacity, material flow, cost, quality, service, and the utilization of automation and infrastructure.
• Build and manage a continuous improvement roadmap, leading initiatives from problem definition through implementation and sustainment.
• Use operational data, observations, time studies, KPIs, and performance analysis to establish improvement priorities and business cases.
• Coach managers, supervisors, and frontline employees while partnering with Operations, Quality, Engineering, IT, Maintenance, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Transportation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 8–12 years of experience in continuous improvement, Lean, operational excellence, or process improvement within distribution, fulfillment, logistics, manufacturing, or similarly complex operations.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification required.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale improvement initiatives with measurable productivity, cost, quality, capacity, or service gains.
• Strong experience with DMAIC, Kaizen, value stream mapping, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams and driving sustainable organizational change.

Nice to have

• Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management, Business, or a related field.
• Experience in highly automated distribution, warehouse, manufacturing, or regulated environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a collaborative, innovative, and values-driven environment.
• Join the Site Leadership Team and contribute to the operational excellence and productivity agenda.
• Support a mission focused on making life more rewarding and dignified for people using healthcare products and services.
• Operate in an employee-owned organization committed to an inclusive workplace.