Process Improvement Manager

Business Improvement Manager
(Warehousing and Logistics)
Northwest/ Midlands 

(Can be based anywhere in the Northwest or Midlands for this position it is agile with travel required for projects)

£54,000-£60,000

Benefits
•Company Car
•Life Assurance
•Flexible benefits such as Critical Illness Cover and Dental Care 

My Client who is a leading player in the supply chain and logistics industry is seeking an experienced Business Improvement Manager to join their team due to continued growth and expansion.

The main purpose of this role is to create, implement innovative solutions to solve operational problems, client solutions and deliver new products.
Business Improvement Manager Requirements:
-Experienced working within a fast-moving logistics operation (ideally 3PL/4PL)
-Experienced in providing technical transport solutions 
-Experience in building business cases and value stream mapping
-Experience working with Change Functions
-Experience in process mapping and solution design 
-Solution design and costing experience
-MS Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint
-Full UK Driving License and ability to travel
-Strong stakeholder management to be able to influence at all levels, including the directorate  
-Strong leadership skills, able to motivate and engage direct reports, project resource and operators
-Able to constructively challenge a diverse range of stakeholders

Business Improvement Manager Duties:
-Designing, embedding, and continually improving a strategy to generate, assess and catalogue ideas for operational improvement in line with business levers and strategy.

-Proactively liaise with Change, Innovations, IT, Commercial, Marketing and Product teams to capture all potential developments, ensuring they are added to the solutions roadmap where a client or operational change is required.

-oBuilding strong relationships with Operational teams and Support functions to continually develop operational knowledge and capture any improvement ideas

-Being a leader within the Development / solutions function to generate and recommend your own improvement ideas.

-Design, Cost & Implement strategic operational change, delivering new ideas, products and initiatives whilst collaborating with the relevant operational experts including Systems Specialists, Process Managers and Finance Managers, to ensure solutions are feasible and the impacts fully understood. 

-Developing, maintaining, and continually improving a core Operational Cost Model to quantify solution costs more efficiently, using Data Science resource where appropriate.

-Leading implementations to ensure the operation successfully embed new solutions & change whilst supporting monitor delivered vs planned project benefits.

-Potential to lead & manage a solution engineer and graduate

-Inspiring a high performing team through strong leadership, effective performance management, talent development and succession planning within your function.

Keywords 
CI Manager, Continuous Improvement Manager, Business Improvement Manager 
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