Supply Chain Operational Excellence Specialist
Job Description
In this role, you have the opportunity to prioritize and drive performance improvements that will have substantial impact on the business results and on delivering operational excellence to customers, by challenging the status quo, coaching, and embedding a mindset of continuous improvement to achieve performance excellence.
You are responsible for
Managing the deployment and embedding of new critical capabilities and standardized ways of working brought by the ISC transformation in line with customer needs
Focusing on productivity planning & execution and E2E view of value chain efficiency & effectiveness
Maintaining Operational Excellence methodology and tools on one or more specific areas.
Coaching Lean Masters by sharing, implementing and sustaining best practices across deployment sites and across sectors
Calibrating, assessing and coaching the organization in determining Operational Excellence Maturity.
Encouraging engagement through BG Operations & Functional leaders to ensure stakeholder buy in.
Striving to identify and improve cost saving opportunities by streamlining processes
Working together with ISC leadership to implement improvement plans
Contributing to the implementation of new critical capabilities and standardized ways of working
Maintaining Operational Excellence methodology and tools on one or more specific areas.
Assessing the organization in determining Operational Excellence Maturity.
Ensuring kaizen events – six sigma projects are properly planned / executed / sustained
Supporting the business in resolving issues, using the known lean and 6S tools, the CI methodology, Kaizen events and Problem Solving as a way to improve Quality, Delivery, Cost and Inventory within their assigned
You are a part of the Commercial Operations Team for Health Systems in Southern Africa and work closely with commercial and Supply Chain Teams and 3rd party suppliers to drive the E2E Operational Excellence.
You will report to Services Operation Manager, Health Systems for Southern Africa.
To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:
Bachelor degree in Business or Engineering required, MBA is preferred
Minimum 5 years’ related experience (for Bachelor degree) or 3 years’ related experience (for Master degree)
Proven track record in driving Excellence Practices, esp. Lean, Continuous Improvement
Experience in supporting a program or project across departments and Change Management
Experience in Change Management, empathy & Interpersonal skills
Strong influence skill in managing different stakeholders
Problem Solving techniques and methodologies to deliver breakthrough
In return, we offer you
A path towards your most rewarding career. Philips is growing its marketing capability enterprise wide. Succeeding in this market-based role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities.
Employment Equity
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. Only apply for this role if you are a South African Citizen by birth or Naturalization prior to the 27 April 1994.
Why should you join Philips?
Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Life at Philips is an opportunity for personal and professional growth. And a journey into the unexpected; our people often experience moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.
In addition to being purpose-driven, we deeply believe in equality and that our people should be a reflection of the society and countries in which we operate. So we value our people in all aspects of diversity, whether generational, gender, experience, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, ability, nationality, or other aspects. We believe that a flexible and inclusive culture invites a full spectrum of ideas, opinions, and experiences, and strive to create it wherever possible.
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