Continuous Improvement Manager

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Hays Full time

Your new company
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of Scotland's leading institutions and help them continue to build their reputation for innovation, research and sustainability.Headquartered in Edinburgh, they have a global reach with partnerships across many countries. They currently employ more than 3000 full-time staff with over 12000 direct users.

In recent years, they have continued to make significant investments in new business systems and applications. They are currently in the later stages of major new HR, Payroll and Procurement system implementations.
As such, a brand new Business Systems Team has been created to ensure that maximum benefit is achieved and the applications continue to develop new functionality and features that meet the business needs moving forward.

Your new role

In your role as Continuous Improvement Manager (Business Systems), you will play a key role in the function of the new team. Working with colleagues across the organisation, you will prioritise and deliver a stream of continuous improvement projects covered by the new ERP system (Oracle Fusion), including Finance, HR, Payroll and Procurement. Your role will be varied and you will utilise a range of business analysis and project management experience in order to get the best from the new systems.

What you'll need to succeed

You will have a track record working with corporate business systems and/or enterprise SAAS solutions. You'll bring excellent communication and collaboration skills and be confident working across a large organisation with stakelholders at all levels. Key areas of the role:
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Working with enterprise business applications (Finance/HR/Procurement)
  • Project Management of software
  • Business Analysis
  • Working in regulated environments
  • Agile
  • Supplier management

What you'll get in return

This is an exciting opportunity to use your technical background and develop new and highly sought after skills within a market-leading ERP system (Oracle Fusion). As part of the total benefits package, you will receive a pension contribution of more than 15% and 40 days of annual leave.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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