Operational Excellence Strategist

5 days ago


Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland Clerkin Connect Full time

About the Role

Clerkin Connect is partnering with a leading transport sector organisation to recruit an Operational Excellence Strategist. This exciting opportunity is part of the organisation's transformation programme, aimed at driving operational excellence across the business.

As a key member of the team, the Operational Excellence Strategist will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering Lean strategies, collaborating with stakeholders to implement process improvements, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement throughout the organisation.

This role offers the opportunity to work on complex and impactful change projects, supporting the business in achieving its strategic goals.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Acting as a Lean expert within the Continuous Improvement team, responsible for defining and implementing the Continuous Improvement (CI) operations framework for consecutive CI tracks.
  • Working closely with key stakeholders to support implementation across the CI track in scope, using a business partner approach.
  • Creating and implementing short- and medium-term process improvement plans.
  • Ensuring project/workstream design meets functional requirements and is achievable for the organisation.
  • Following up with the business after the track has been completed.
  • Applying Lean Six Sigma expertise with strong capability and experience in developing implementation strategies for complex, multidisciplinary parts of organisations.
  • Supporting the creation of a culture of continuous improvement by rolling out implementation frameworks and associated education.
  • Installing CI processes within assigned tracks and supporting their further development.
  • Ensuring CI champions develop strong skills in CI methods and tools, anchoring CI within the organisation.
  • Participating in cultural change initiatives, such as sharing CI success stories, executing workshops, supporting town halls, and promoting the new CI approach.
  • Travelling as required to attend meetings, workshops, or other related activities across various locations.

Requirements:

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
  • Expert in Lean Six Sigma with demonstrable experience leading the implementation of complex operational changes or CI tracks.
  • Proven track record of successfully influencing leaders during past change projects.
  • Experience contributing to and shaping applicable industry best practices.
  • Desirable: Experience operating across multiple countries and cultures.
  • Strong leadership skills, with the ability to create and communicate an inspiring vision while influencing and persuading stakeholders.
  • Effective stakeholder management, balancing and finding compromises between differing views.
  • Strong business partnering and influencing capabilities with excellent commercial awareness.
  • Proven problem-solving skills and understanding of broader business contexts.
  • Ability to adapt to rapidly changing environments and work under pressure.
  • Innovation skills, including transforming industry trends into practical, cost-effective, secure, scalable, and supportable solutions.
  • Proven coaching abilities.
  • Fluent written and spoken English.

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