Business Excellence Director

Employment type:Regular

Employment time:Full-time

Percentage of time the position involves travel:0%

Percentage of time the position allows for working off-site:0%

Job category:General and Operations Manager

Job industry:Manufacturing - Other

Description

Job Description

We are looking for a  Business Excellence Director  based in Timisoara who will be responsible for continuously driving a culture of excellence in the organization, coaching and enabling waste removal activities using lean and six sigma approaches and tools and guiding actions to a sustainable conclusion!

We are looking forsomeone who demonstrates:

• Intense collaboration
• Passionate customer focus
• Thoughtful, fast, disciplined execution
• Tenacious commitment to continuous improvement
• Relentless drive to win

Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do:

• Establish and execute strategic plans for Lean organization to maximize its value added, to exceed operational goals and to create a competitive advantage in the business;
• Take aggressive action to drive financial performance in the areas of productivity, purchase price, and facility variances;
• Develop and execute a Lean and six sigma strategy that supports the site’s overall market driven business model in line with the GBE A3;
• Utilize Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) techniques, initiate process improvements, cycle time reductions, cost reductions and other activities aimed at reducing/eliminating non-value-added activities in the process;
• Best Practice (BP) identification and yokoten;
• Lead Facilitator Kaizen project IKW and EKW, provide Kaizen application expertise at the Gemba;
• Coach, share and ensure usage of lean tools;
• Impact the long-term direction and financial or operational success of the site;
• Educate, train and align the team towards the Kaizen Workshop goals;
• Special project/segment/customer priorities to formulate and propose strategy of Lean Transformation;

Here is some of what you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience and training;
• A minimum of 10 years of management experience; 
• A minimum of 8 years experience in Business Excellence/ Lean role;
• Lean and Six Sigma Black Belt;
• Fluent in English;
• Able to utilize tools to monitor cost and cost trends, continuously striving to improve value; 
• Possesses strong business acumen and proven ability to improve key financial results;
• Strong innovation skills and creativity;
• Effective interpersonal skills with ability to negotiate and influence for positive outcomes;

Here are a few of our preferred experiences:

• A Master’s or MBA degree is preferred

 

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