Continuous Improvement Manager

The Continuous Improvement Manager reports into the Head of Business Improvement and is accountable for establishing and maintaining a culture of Continuous Improvement (CI) and embedding quality management principles across the company.

The role is responsible for delivering the CI strategy, working across all functions within the business to eliminate wasteful activity and establish sustainable working practices. Working directly with different teams in different functions and with stakeholdersat all levels, the role is responsible for building awareness of and capability in CI to motivate teams, departments and individuals. The role looks to integrate and develop new ways of working, define problems and seek solutions in order to implement CI anddeliver ROI.

**What you will be doing as a Continuous Improvement Manager**:

- Developing an overall vision and roadmap for CI within the business.
- Building awareness of CI and opportunities for improvement across all departments to foster a culture of CI across the business.
- Developing and implementing a company-wide CI program with measurable outcomes.
- Designing, running and coordinating training sessions and workshops.
- Translating techniques and methodology into actionable steps for business benefit.
- Winning engagement from senior managers as demonstrated through involvement in CI initiatives.
- Acting as a CI mentor to staff across the business.
- Liaising with senior management to ensure projects are being selected that align with business strategy and goals.
- Identifying, reporting and communicating risks, issues, challenges and successes across the business.
- Managing the individual performance, development, training and recruitment of CI Champions and direct reports to help build a high performing network who remove wasteful activity across the company.
- Allocating resources across departments/functions to ensure CI targets are consistently met.

**For this you’ll need**:

- Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt (required).
- Significant experience in business analysis / continuous improvement techniques e.g. Lean.
- Significant experience in project management and/or management experience, with a proven track record.
- Sound working knowledge of general business processes and typical organisation architecture.
- Proven track record across the areas of change management and continuous improvement culture.
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to build rapport and influence teams, including changing hearts and minds.
- Ability to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses on complex cross-functional matters.
- Ability to challenge the current status quo and influence both upwards and downwards.
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated.
- Experienced and skilled in presenting to a variety of stakeholders.

**Why work with us at IOP Publishing**:
**Purpose**: We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish;
**Culture**: We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticitywith a social conscience.

**Financial benefits**: a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), and a discretionary annual bonus scheme, £200 stipend payment on completion of probation period, and a range of other useful and cost-savingbenefits available through our benefits platform;
**Health and Wellbeing**: 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), a 35-hour working week,, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office incentral Bristol - modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind - for work and social time;
**Flexibility**: a flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs
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- we don’t need you in the office every day so we can consider applicants from further afield who can travel to Bristol likely once a week depending on when faceto face time is needed;
And last but not least, did we mention that we are unique : IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society and we gift-aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.

**To apply, please submit your CV through our careers site.