Continuous Improvement Deployment Manager (Warsaw)

Job description

This is a very exciting business transformation role with the objective to improve all business processes within one of the Top 3 fast moving consumer good retailers in Europe. Lean has become a strategic enabler for adaptation speed and sustainability.

As a CI Deployment Manager you will be responsible to deploy the continuous improvement strategy developed by the head quarter.  You will act as a mentor and coach for all sites in Poland in POLISH language. You will coach the local business to build a lean organization, mentoring lean projects, running lean workshops, managing the stakeholders and company politics on all levels.  For all the CI initiatives you will work closely with the CI Champion on store level. You will report to and align your activities and strategy localization with the CI Head Of within the head quarter in Germany.

Travel to different locations within Poland (50%) and sometimes to Germany will be required. 

An external party will provide lean training to the employees.

Requirements

• You have at least 8 years of experience running CI projects
• Ideally you have been into retail business or alternatively into SCM or Manufacturing
• You have conducted BPR to define new processes when needed
• You know how to support and coach overlapping projects running simultaneously
• You know to manage stakeholders on all levels including C-level
• You have a positive and enthusiastic mind set
• You are culturally sensitive

Skills

• University bachelor degree
• Black Belt certification
• Lean Master certification
• Advanced level in Project Management
• Change Management
• Communication Strategy
• Presentation skills and moderation of teams
• Process documentation tool (e.g. Visio, ARIS)
• Data analysis with Minitab
• You speak fluently Polish and good English