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Cluster Lead Operational Solution Management - Business Process Framework (m/f/x)
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ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology
Enabler for smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips
Working for tomorrow today.
Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are produced using ZEISS technologies. As the centerpiece of every electronically controlled system, they have become an integral part of our everyday lives – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and process control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, increasingly powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of micro- and nanoelectronics.
About Us
As part of the SMT Business Process Transformation (BPT), we are optimizing our business processes to become a process- and data-driven organization while enabling sustainable growth and scalability. To strengthen our team, we are looking for an experienced leader to take responsibility for the Operational Solution Management Cluster within the Business Process Framework (BPF) Program. In this role, you will actively shape the future operating model of SMT and drive long-term business transformation across the organization. You will work at the interface of Business, IT, Enterprise Architecture, and major transformation programs, creating transparency across end-to-end processes, developing sustainable solutions, and advancing the harmonization and digitalization of business processes.
Your Role
- Build and lead the Operational Solution Management Cluster within the Business Process Framework Program
- Take end-to-end responsibility for strategic transformation projects, ensuring delivery on scope, quality, budget, and timeline
- Lead cross-functional project teams through lateral leadership across business, process management, IT, and enterprise architecture
- Manage a portfolio of transformation and continuous improvement initiatives with significant organizational impact
- Develop target operating models, roadmaps, and implementation strategies for future business processes
- Drive stakeholder alignment, sustainable decision-making, and long-term adoption of process and organizational changes
- Collaborate closely with ERP/SAP S/4HANA, PLM, and Enterprise Architecture programs while supporting senior management on the future business process landscape.
Your Profile
- Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Informatics, or a comparable field
- Several years of experience in operational process management, manufacturing, logistics, service operations, or related business functions
- Strong project management experience in the implementation of digital solutions, process improvements, and operational excellence initiatives
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable process and system solutions and successfully drive implementation
- Experience working at the interface between business, IT, and operations, ideally in SAP-centric environments
- Analytical, pragmatic, and hands-on mindset with strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus: - Manufacturing Execution & Worker Guidance - Supply Chain & Logistics Processes - SAP ERP / S/4HANA - Operational Digitalization - Industrial Software Solutions
- Very good German and English skills, combined with the motivation to shape a process- and data-driven organization.
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Ramona Schweizer
About us
Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That’s just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.
In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.
Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.
Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.
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