Operations Excellence Director

3 weeks ago


Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom CK Group Full time
Job Overview

CK Group is a leading global manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and vaccines. We are currently seeking an experienced Continuous Improvement Manager to join our senior management team in the UK. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in continuous improvement, leadership, and strategic thinking.

About the Role

This permanent role offers a competitive salary plus bonus, car allowance or company car (after successful probation), pension, health and other benefits. As part of our senior leadership team, you will identify and formalise the Continuous Improvement strategy and associated projects with site director and global team. You will also support short to long-term priorities and key decisions related to site continuity and development while ensuring efficient implementation of business performance excellence tools and methods.

Main Responsibilities

• Leads high-impact continuous improvement projects
• Adopt and roll out various CI methods to find opportunities for improvement as well as losses, which can be further investigated to determine root causes
• Develop strategies - Act as an internal consultant and develop short and long-term strategies
• Define and standardise problem-solving methodologies and support implementation and development of staff
• Serve as a coach to coordinate workshops and team training's, openly sharing guidance and technical expertise
• Supervise on continuous improvement principles and Lean organisation principles
• Guide and support annual strategic project management process (building, scheduling, monitoring, closure)

Requirements

• Successful track record with skills and experience gained in a similar position(s), at a similar level, coupled with Pharmaceutical experience
• Experience of project management and particularly lean or six sigma (Green belt minimum), plus evidence of tools and methods of continuous improvement, problem solving, root cause analysis
• Strong leadership/team management skills and experience
• Strategic thinker with the ability to influence at all levels
• Collaborative and solutions-focused with a 'can do' attitude
• Creatively challenges the status quo to find new ways of working, making improvements to processes

Benefits

A competitive salary of £65,000 per annum, plus bonus, car allowance or company car, pension, health and other benefits.

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