Operational Excellence Leader

**Looking for a Career for Good?** - Puratos is a global purpose-driven company focused on bringing people together through food innovation for good. We offer a full range of innovative food ingredients and services for the bakery, patisserie, and chocolate sectors, serving artisans, retailers, industrial and food service companies in over 100 countries around the world. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core values continue to propel our global ambitions. This coupled with our commitment to our communities is what makes working at Puratos so magical._ If you are a solution oriented and analytical thinker with a passion for leading and inspiring people, we invite you to experience the magic of being yourself and join us for “a career for good.” **OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE LEADER** **KEY TASKS** **Lead the OpX Implementation program - Deliver sustained results** - Co-build with Empowered Team site lead the site OpX Vision of Success, change - and communication plan. - Lead the analysis to identify opportunities and define implementation requirements (Change Readiness, Organization Design, Goal Alignment,) - Perform Loss & Waste Analysis / Loss deployment - Define and update the implementation plan with Milestone Plan & Steps To Milestone Plan (STMP) - Establish and sustain the process to follow-up (weekly Program Mgmt. Team - PMT, monthly Site Steerco, bi-monthly Milestone meeting), track & report progress & results and escalate support requirements to the Global OpX PMO. - Facilitate improvement initiatives through the most effective standard methodology e.g. Performance Improvement Projects (PIP), DMAIC, Kaizen Event, **Build Internal capabilities** - Co-lead the maturity status of a site to identify capability gaps, quantify improvements, and define implementation needs. - Support the implementation of the X-pillars common means: Loss & Waste Analysis, Performance benchmark, Business case definition, KPI Tree, Data Visual Management, Work Standards, SOP & Short Interval Control, Leader Standard Work & Gemba Coaching, Rational Problem Solving, Continuous Improvement, Lean Thinking & Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, OpX Means maturity status. - By assessing the Means implementation status on a regular base - By challenging the department responsible on assessment outcomes - By providing training on specific means/needs - By coaching the key persons in the organization - By continuously training new facilitators for future CI initiatives **Establish & sustain Management Operating System (MOS**) - Define Key Performance Indicators and targets for each process, with leading/results & lagging/managing indicators; - Define roles, responsibilities, and decision-rights for each process, e.g. RACI & RAPID; - Standardize management meetings and decision processes, with standardized Terms of Reference; - Establish and sustain the recurrent activities for the site-wide Management Operating System (MOS) - Establish Management of Change (MOC) process in order to ensure changes from improvements are implemented in a thoughtful way (not generating other risks/problems or negatively impacting our operational KPI’s) and to ensure material master data (for planning & costing) are updated. - Give support to the site mgmt. team to define, establish & improve their Leader Standard Work. Goal is to support and sustain all implemented processes and to be able to discover & have eliminated all kinds of barriers (through e.g. Gemba walks, 1 to 1 coaching,) - Co-lead the OpX Means maturity status evaluation. - Participate to the MOS Community of Practices sessions - Execute (or co-assist in) peer review assessments on other sites.> cross-site OpX pyramid assessments in order to cross-pollinate on best practices and implementation styles. **PROFILE**: - Academic degree: Master’s degree in science/Engineering. - Experience: Min 5 years of relevant experience in Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence ideally in the food industry. - Languages: local site language, English (reading/writing/speaking) - ICT: MS Office + Office 365 Communication and collaboration tools (MS Teams, SharePoint,) - Change management & influencing (ability to engage people & drive improvements without formal authority) - Effective communication & Emotional Intelligence (sharing best practices/results to empower the program). - Driver for continuous improvement (Challenge status quo) - Coaching & teaching skills - Lean Manufacturing methodologies knowledge & practical experience - Process & Project Management Skills - Well organized & focused on priorities (personal efficiency) - Strong analytical mind, attention for detail and accuracy - Conceptual thinking, interpretation of data and translating into pragmatic customer-oriented solutions