CI Leader Central & Nordics
Xylem
- Sundbyberg, Stockholm
- Permanent
- Heltid
- Partner with Business and Functional Leaders to facilitate idea generation and build a pipeline of regional improvement and transformational opportunities.
- Lead the strategy deployment process and ensure alignment across the organization and regions for key priorities as well as coordination/alignment between Europe priorities, TLIPs and regional strategic initiatives/projects
- Ensure effective definition and implementation of process and financial metrics (including hard and soft savings) to validate results and tracking performance, efficiency improvements and revenue generation efforts.
- Facilitate and drive the use of CI practices, processes and tools applied to commercial, transactional and service activities.
- Facilitate a roadmap for standardization of lean processes and alignment towards cross regional common IT tools/platforms, integrating digital and innovative solutions into the processes.
- Drive benefits, productivity and support delivery schedules as a result of implementation of CI initiatives
- Direct involvement in specific projects and identification of regional synergy opportunities.
- Facilitate Kaizen events and lead improvement projects related to strategic and regional priorities.
- Facilitate, train and coach leaders and employees in the use of CI/Lean Six-Sigma tools to approach problems and projects.
- Lead workshops, training, coaching and change management with business leaders and employees to build CI culture and mindset.
- Act as subject matter expert on CI, Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
- Drive visibility across the organization of key improvement initiatives and their status and progress
- Responsibility for building, managing, monitoring and improving project portfolios using best PMO practices including ideation, prioritization, development, implementation and sustainment of projects.
- Ensure projects are integrated and aligned with business activities, improvement goals, business strategy and coordinated appropriate project/process owners to accomplish goals.
- Ensure governance, alignment and resourcing, best practices, knowledge sharing and project manager competence and maturity in project management methodologies.
- Collaborate with project stakeholders to meet time, quality and scope requirements.
- Supporting leaders to deliver on project objectives and overseeing the execution of CI and transformational projects.
- Develop reporting, procedures, processes, governance and tools, and implement a monitoring process.
- Continuous Improvement and sustainable Problem solving mindset
- Teamwork and Cross-boundary collaboration
- Outcome driven results orientation
- Enabling data informed decision making
- Engagement and Influence
- Planning & process orientation
- People development, coaching and interpersonal leadership skills
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Engineering or Business
- Green Belt, Black Belt certification preferred
- 5+ years of proven experience in leading continuous improvement/lean in an industrial or transactional environment
- Strong business acumen and financial literacy
- Proven project management and leadership abilities in a matrix team environment
- Demonstrated experience driving large scale process improvements with result showing improved business result, increased productivity, waste elimination and improved lead/cycle times.
- Demonstrated experience of leading significant change in large organization
- Fluent in English