Process Optimisation Lead

5 months ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Samworth Brothers Full time

**About The Role**:
Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

We have the opportunity for you to join our team as our Process Lead. This role is responsible for implementing, managing and continually improving processes and business systems across Samworth Brothers. Aligning them with the operating model, the role requires significant organisation skills and the ability to drive process improvement initiatives.

The role will lead and coordinate the work of team members providing training and support to business process owners. Utilise standard process improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma Value Stream mapping) to identify root causes of process issues and identify areas of process improvement. Maximise standardization and automation, closing any gaps in systems, processes, and user knowledge. Troubleshoot, analyse, and resolve complex problems “Grit in the Wheel”. Analysing utilization of systems landscape to maximise standardization and automation, closing any gaps in systems, processes, and user knowledge.

You will collaborate with the wider IT team to provide systematic change requests in line with the architecture principles. Managing stakeholders at all levels and engaging with SMEs to map processes and use data to identify opportunities and validate pain points. In this role you will be:

- Lead the design, implementation and management of processes.
- Ensure that responsibility and accountability of all processes are documented and understood.
- Ensure any changes transition seamlessly into the business environment with the support of a change manager.
- Provide training and communication on all aspects of the defined processes to the relevant business divisions, ensuring that the processes are fully understood.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Solid FMCG business understanding across multiple functions.
- Project management skills.
- Lead change management activities.
- Support organisational design and definition of roles and responsibilities.
- Experience in process improvement. Including ability to analyse problem solve.
- Experienced with process optimisation techniques such as Lean, Six Sigma or Systems Thinking.
- Proven record of utilising this skill set in a work environment.
- Ability to translate words to written processes.
- Previous experience in the area of process improvement or food manufacturing.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member - you'll be an integral part of our thriving family.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._



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