Business Improvement Professional
We are seeking an analytical thinker to join our team in a Business Improvement Professional role. As a key player in our site's digital transformation, you will immerse yourself in our core operations from milk intake through bulk cheese production to retail cheese cutting and despatch.
You will start by gaining understanding of our processes and taking ownership of our existing Excel solutions. This hands-on experience will give you a detailed working understanding of our processes, embedding you as onsite support and setting you up for success in the next phase of your journey with us.
As you grow into the role, you'll transition into a lead position on our digitalisation project. You will use your newfound operational knowledge to help shape and implement future-state automation, moving us away from paper and Excel solutions, towards a streamlined, integrated, data-driven environment.
Your insights will be crucial in defining the next stage of our digitalisation efforts, with the ultimate goal of scaling these improvements across all of our sites.
Key Responsibilities:
* Improving & maintaining Excel solutions to provide site teams with effective and usable data, to aid decision making.
* Collaborating with onsite teams to identify their information needs and clarify requirements.
* Automating data collection and reporting by working with site, IT, OT, and the business improvement team.
* Coordinating and supporting detailed process mapping of all operations, focusing on current practices, information flows, system gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
* Developing and mapping next-generation processes in collaboration with stakeholders across the business.
* Supporting the testing and training of site teams on new systems to ensure successful adoption.
* Reviewing new systems to ensure they are fully embedded and delivering value.
* Streamlining workflows from the site throughout the rest of the business.
Requirements:
* Education: Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
* Experience: 2+ years relevant experience within a manufacturing or process improvement-based role.
* Skills: Strong teamwork, interpersonal and communication skills, proven project management and organisational skills, methodical and proactive approach to problem-solving.
About Us
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