Head of Business Transformation

2 weeks ago

Cwmbran, United Kingdom Safran Full time

**Job description**:
Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world

In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.

This role has responsibility for leading two key areas of transformational change for SEATS GB.

The first area is focused on Business Transformation, which involves ensuring our 3-year transformational plan is well aligned with business functions. The scope of Business Transformation plan is broad, cross-functional and throughout all levels of the organisation and will require priority opportunities with high level of organisational impact / benefit to be identified within the budget framework. The role includes the management of risk and driving opportunities to identify change initiatives ensuring compliance risks are addressed and mitigated.

Key responsibilites:

- Provide leadership of the Transformation Programme, which articulates a clear and compelling vision of change through the use of evidence based business cases including sound financial analysis and resource implications.
- Provide effective change management leadership and support so that the change vision is delivered using innovative solutions.
- Ensure excellent and robust governance arrangements across all transformation programmes and projects
- Ensure that the Transformation Programme is resourced effectively through business engagement and alignment
- Ownership of the business improvement process and able to lead, facilitate and coach the organization and leadership team in creating and implementing annual and strategic improvement journeys.
- Developing and leading a team of Improvement Leads to engage, coach and support the business in implementing this journey.
- Owning the training and coaching of Lean Improvement Tools and engaging the Leadership team in personally leading and creating a culture of Kaizen Improvement Events that empower the workforce to engage in improvement activities
- Leading project teams to deliver significant business improvements through the deployment of CI tools in line with the business Balanced Scorecard

**Complementary description**:
Our in-house design studio co-creates the most innovative experiences in the sky with our airline customers and partners. Our dedicated engineering, production and in-service support facilities are integral to delivering a high-end quality product that we keep flying throughout the life of programme. We are fully supported by a wide team of support functions, from HR to Finance, to Business Development and Planning and Logistics, our team is built to give Safran Seats an end-to-end capability in house in the UK.

We focus on:
Our people

These are our four People Fundamentals that underpin everything we do at Safran:

- We believe in and fostering the conditions for diversity and inclusion to thrive
- We develop our colleagues skills and build opportunities so you can shape our future
- We create a trustworthy work place to support you, as you dare to act and innovate
- We encourage collaboration and mutual support between you and your colleagues so you'll be supported every step of the way

Sustainability

Our people are at the heart of our success, as we work together to achieve our mission: contributing to a safer and more sustainable aviation. We are tackling the biggest challenges in aerospace, with a commitment to work to decarbonise the industry by 2050.

Global Mobility

As part of the Safran Group, across our businesses we are market leaders in aerospace, defence and space; there is always potential for future mobility in the UK and internationally.

**Job requirements**:
Business transformation experience and knowledge - Essential
Lean Sigma Master Black Belt Certification - Essential
Problem Solving 8D - Essential
QRQC knowledge - Essential
One Safran Workshop knowledge -Essential
Training experience - Essential

**Specificity of the job**:
Required to travel occasionally in the UK and internationally

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defence and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transp

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