Operational Excellence Lead

Job title: Operational Excellence Lead

About the Role Operational Excellence Lead at the Belbes site in Egypt, responsible for leading site adoption of Nutreco's Operational Excellence program, delivering KPI targets for cost and productivity while developing OE maturity and capability aligned with BU and group strategy. The role involves managing cross-functional improvement projects and applying project management discipline to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

What You'll Do

• Perform site diagnostic/assessments to highlight opportunities for improvement in line with the budget cycle.
• Inform site leadership team and BU OE lead of opportunities to enable opportunity-based target setting in the budget cycle.
• Track benefits through leading the Benefits Tracker agenda and ensuring all activity is tracked.
• Lead site improvement projects that are higher in complexity or require cross-functional involvement.
• For prioritized opportunities, set up projects with site team members, ensuring charter in place and then coaching the teams to deliver projects.
• Ensure strong site governance is in place for improvement activities.
• Work with the local Operations team to facilitate the setting up and sustainability of the site SIM/business performance management process to ensure robust performance management at all levels including handover, SIC, Daily, Weekly, Monthly intervals.
• Deploy best practice operational excellence techniques within the Operations function through design, coaching and training of staff to reduce waste and non value add activity/cost.
• Ensure central CI programmes are cascaded and aligned to local requirements.
• Perform Operational Excellence maturity assessments in line with central defined process and ensure site improvement plan is in place and progressing.
• Support the development of a CI culture ensuring using leadership process confirmations across site as part of the defined leaders standard work.
• Competency development- Establish competency requirements for identified roles across the business and performing training needs analysis to ensure a site competency plan is in place.
• Develop, implement and maintain training matrices to assist managers in identifying training needs.
• Ensure that all employees are trained to the required standards and are effectively audited and signed off as competent.

What We're Looking For

• Strong technical skills and proven project management experience with the ability to meet objectives within quality, time, and budget targets.
• In-depth knowledge of project management systems/tools, either the Nutreco Project Management standard or other recognized PM methods.
• Ability to apply Operational Excellence techniques in a production/industrial environment and lead cross-functional initiatives that deliver site KPI targets for cost and productivity.
• Understanding of business issues and ability to align improvement targets with BU and group strategy.
• Excellent governance, coaching and training capabilities and a focus on building OE maturity and capability at the site.
• Project management skills are essential for any level Project Manager; while deep functional area knowledge is advantageous, it is not required.