Lean Team Support Specialist- Supply Chain

Job Title: Lean Team Support Specialist

Working for a major supply chain partner

Location: Staffordshire, with some travel in the North West

Working Hours: Normally between 8:00am - 16:00 with some flexibility required. Monday to Friday.

How will you contribute?

• Support the development and integration of the Lean Strategy across the business through the delivery of a defined Roadmap and projects delivered to agreed timescales.
• Provide coaching and mentoring support to those who are executing Lean initiatives.
• Support the facilitation of projects, workshops and training to improve Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery that engage people to deliver sustainable, measurable change.
• Support Managers and Lean Specialists with data analysis to assure solutions implemented deliver the required benefit.
• Work with finance functions to support the mechanisms to track financial benefits.
• Support the Lean capability build across the network to ensure a sustainable pipeline of Lean Champions.

What will you bring?

• Experience in coaching teams and working collaboratively with key stakeholders, including senior level, in building mature Lean/Continuous Improvement capability within sites.
• Proven track record of implementing Lean in a supply chain, head office, and service environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships throughout the business and discuss complex issues in a plain and concise manner.
• Ability to identify, analyse and quickly assimilate information.
• Lean / C.I Practitioner Certification, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certified, or equivalent.

What you will receive:

In addition to generous remuneration, the culture is a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits including an online discount platform, onsite parking, and much more.

Includes significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multiskilling, in a dynamic working environment.

Permanent role with interviews taking place throughout April.