Operational Excellence Manager- Elandsfontein at Sulzer

Purpose of the job

Leading quality, planning and procurement teams to drive scale and efficiency and to deliver better outcomes for the organisation, through transformative, comprehensive, and self-sustaining Operational Excellence capabilities.

In this role you will be accountable for:

•  Identifying, prioritising and implementing initiatives to improve productivity, quality, service delivery, and/or reducing costs and complexity across the organisation
• Setting governance for continuous improvement, quality, planning and procurement programmes across multiple functions
• Leading the development, deployment, and measurement of cross-functional transformation programmes, directing programme management to support such initiatives
• Embedding a passion for operational excellence within operations programmes, with a focus on business transformation
• Identifying and capturing business needs / opportunities through communication with stakeholders
• Driving innovation with systems, processes and technology improvements
• Leading large complex programmes (supported by Operational Excellence team) to accelerate operational, productivity and service delivery performance
• Promoting the value of operational excellence across the organisation to create demand for the benefits and a strong continuous improvement culture
• Setting direction and providing effective, cost efficient and robust techniques to achieve improvements, resulting in high quality and innovative output
• Facilitating and driving the development of new ideas and concepts with minimal risk and disruption to core business processes / functions.
• Leading the organisation’s capital investment programme, ensuring strong business need, that ROI is developed and targets for growth and profitability are achieved
• Leading the development of robust and appropriate audit standards and compliance, ensuring effective execution of quality audits and appropriate and timely NCR action plans are closed
• Leading the organisation’s procurement strategies, targeting economies of scale and ensuring that costs are effectively managed, and that the performance of suppliers is maximised

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Senior management / leadership experience (in an operational organisation)
• Business Process Improvement
• Robotic Process Automation (desirable)
• Programme Management
• Six Sigma Black Belt / Lean Expert certification (desirable)
• Policy Deployment Processes
• Supply Chain / Service / Manufacturing experience (desirable)
• Leadership
• Safety leadership
• Continuous improvement focused
• Quality driven
• Results driven
• Relationship management
• Stakeholder management
• Influence
• Critical decision making
• Inclusive & collaborative
• Multi-level communication