Change Champion Lead

Job Description

Job Title: Change Champion Lead (Continuous Improvement)

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £47,000 dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading all aspects of cross-functional business change activities with key stakeholder engagement at all levels
• Reviewing continuous improvement performance metrics with reporting up to Managing Director level
• Working with large datasets to establish improvement opportunity arguments
• Establishing and maintaining project management plans and project charters including performance metrics
• Assessment and analysis of current processes, procedures, systems, environment, business interfaces, culture, and ways of working and their respective performance. Providing executive summaries, reports and presentations when required
• Utilise problem solving methodologies to identify and address root causes
• Developing and implementing engagement strategies to ensure all key stakeholders support and champion any Operational Excellence initiatives
• Ensuring sustainability of implemented changes, to ensure a project will deliver desired benefits over the medium / long term
• Providing coaching and mentorship to support others in development of Operational Excellence Skills and understanding

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience of coordinating and influencing senior stakeholder groups to deliver business improvement activities. Strong communicator in all mediums
• Proven track record of implementing change activities, including cultural change through excellent facilitation skills/coaching skill
• Graduate level learning or equivalent experience
• Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt and/or ability to demonstrate deep knowledge of key principles from real-world application
• Must be comfortable creating and delivering formal reports and presentations up to Managing Director level

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Continuous Improvement team:

You will be part of a team of internal business improvement consultants that is responsible for developing and delivering, cost, quality and lived experience improvements that directly impact our colleagues and the delivery of support to RN Warships. The Continuous Improvement Team is highly motivated team of 6 professionals who work closely together to achieve swift delivery of improvement projects, the role is dynamic and demanding. Versatility, resilience and willingness to learn are fundamental to how we approach our work. This is versatile role, one day you may be at the point of work on a T45 Destroyer living the problem alongside our industrial workforce, the next day you may be presenting your findings to a group of senior stakeholders. This role offers a truly unique opportunity to work cross-functionally with engagement at all levels of the business.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 6th December 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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