Global Operational Excellence Director

The organisation

We are recruiting a Global Operational Excellence Director for our client in the technology manufacturing sector.

The position

As Global Operational Excellence Director, you will partner with business leadership to establish multi-year strategic roadmaps. These roadmaps will facilitate cultural transformation and achieve objectives for each of the targeted sites, building performance teams, supported by a continuous improvement structure and culture.

As a change agent, this position creates and implements plans that enhance employee engagement and help move strategy into action to continuously improve, sustain, and scale business process. You handle an active funnel of improvement projects for impact, and you drive higher proficiency and faster adoption of continuous improvement practices and behaviours by all employees. The team you lead is key to the operational and financial performance of the sites and value streams, you also lead and foster the continuous improvement organisation.

Focus areas:

• Optimising manufacturing output
• Continuous process improvement
• Defining and executing a production strategy
• Guiding set up new manufacturing facilities

Candidate profile

• Entrepreneurial and inspiring leader with operational management experience in multi-functional, multi-site and global manufacturing organisations
• Lean expert with extensive experience and a ‘hands-on’ track record of implementing successful TPS-based business systems
• Proven track record for developing, training, and coaching teams and leading cultural transformations in a big and diverse organisation
• Strong stakeholder development skills and ability to manage/influence across and up in the organisation without direct reporting responsibility
• Willing to travel up to 50% globally and visit HQ in the Netherlands regularly
• Good command of the English language. Dutch or other languages are considered a plus

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the link below.