Project Manager - Operational Excellence

Job Description

You will be the driving force behind our Operational Excellence Strategy, training you stakeholders in, and creating awareness of, the need for continues improvement and communicate and propagate Operational Excellence across the business.

ABOUT THE JOB

As project manager – operational excellence you’ll be responsible for:

• Continuously challenge processes, ensuring their effectiveness and efficiency by identifying improvement opportunities and ensuring their implementation with the relevant teams.
• manage cross-departmental projects from the initial ideation through to completion, ensuring an effective scoping, planning, communication and stakeholder management.
• Diagnose processes, identify bottlenecks and collaborate with different stakeholders to improve the flow of our value chain, improve quality, safety and reduce waste & cost.
• Facilitate and guide project teams in identifying the root cause of incidents that disrupt our daily operations, by using problem-solving techniques.
• Follow-up on projects in order to monitor the progress of planned improvements and to assure timely action, appropriate Operational Excellence support, and achievement of the expected benefits.
• Provide internal consultative services on specific Operational Excellence projects and activities such as process mapping, value stream mapping, process design, data collection methods, establishing performance standards/metrics, Return on Investments analysis, 5 Whys and other root cause analysis & project management tools.

ABOUT YOU

• Strong experience in an Operational environment, such as Manufacturing, Production or Fulfillment, preferably in Part-145 Supply Chain Management. (5 – 7 years of professional experience or convince us otherwise)
• Demonstrated experience in managing mid-to-large scale projects. As a strong Project Manager, you know how to set up and finish projects successfully, and how to engage your stakeholders.
• Preferred experience in Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement, in the principles and methodologies Lean Six Sigma Management.
• An analytical mindset and know how to use data as the basis of your decisions.
• Have a proven track record of building capabilities, coaching, training, mentoring and nurturing teams.
• Demonstrable leadership skills, able to navigate and influence others from Director level down to the shop-floor.
• You don’t shy away from a challenge and are able to perform in a fast-paced and continuously changing work environment.
• Lean Six Sigma Belt (Green or Black) or Lean Leader Certified is a plus.
• Project Management certification is a plus.
• Fluent in English.
• The ability to travel mainly within Europe when required.

ABOUT US

Working at TUI has many advantages – here are some of the highlights:

• Fantastic holiday benefits including discounts
• Online wellbeing and learning support
• Fun and dynamic work culture

TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business. Within TUI Group, TUI Airline regroups all airline activities across UK, Nordics, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Morocco, France, and the Dutch Antilles. Business performance development is a function within our airline Engineering & Maintenance organisation responsible for transforming our legacy operations into one E&M organisation. The business performance development department operates as a multi-disciplinary team of experts driving efficiency and innovation.

* Applications close December 15 *