Continuous Improvement Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Continuous Improvement Manager
Your next role ?

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if, like us, you always aim to exceed customer needs, provide value and are experienced at promoting relationships.

**In this exciting role you will**:
**Business Alignment**:
Facilitate the design of Site/Business Unit strategies while ensuring the alignment from Global, Regional, and Functional into Site strategy. This includes identification, selection, prioritization of improvement initiatives and resource allocation & execution timeline ;
Elaborate the continuous improvement roadmap and oversee and execute related tactical and operational plans to meet local objectives ;
Setup strategy deployment governance at sites and department level to ensure execution.

**People Engagement**:
Establish a positive first contact with all primary stakeholders, and deploy CI Awareness workshops to all teams (e.g. CI basics training) ;
Integrate and encourage best practices in teamwork that complement our core CI methods ;
Enable everyone in Givaudan to be able to connect with CI and to actively share Good Practices (e.g. through active communication, newsletter) ;
Introduce and coach VPMS- Visual Performance Management system, as a universal practice for everyone in the organization to manage day-to-day performance.

**Capability Building**:
Based on Employee‘s learning needs provide CI training inputs to field HR ;
Develop people by delivering training, coaching and mentoring for all CI Methodologies ;
**Training includes**: CI Basics(5S, 8Wastes, Problem Solving), Yellow, Green, Black Belts, CI Leadership training, Specific training on, Lean Tools, Visual Performance Management, Strategy Deployment, CI Maturity Assessment ;
Mentor/Coach Belts, and manage the certification and recognition events.

**Problem Solving**:
Support team to identify problems that must be solved using right CI Methodology and Tools ;
Setup a tollgate review governance for all Site improvement projects.

**Performance Management**:
Set up and support the effective implementation of daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly performance management reviews at shift, departament and site level including the definition of lagging and leading indicators.

**Continuous Improvement Maturity Assessment (CIMA)**:
Train/Coach/Assess the Site in the CIMA Excellence maturity journey ;
Enable site team to achieve its roadmap & results through site CIMA implementation.

**Process Efficiency**:
**Work Standards**:
Support process owners on development and maintenance of work standards ;
Promote good practice sharing across the sites and within the region.

**Business Impact**:
Lead or support specific business improvement projects for the site ;
Manage the pipeline of improvement projects to deliver impact and track strategic progress at site/department level ;
Drive implementation progress of approved CI projects/programs, monitoring resource plans, project team accountabilities, change requests, deadlines, milestones, etc. and manage periodic updates to project stakeholders ;
Responsible for reporting the financial and non-financial benefits at site level.

You ?
Are you someone who wants to grow your world? Who excels being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us - and improve your world.

**Your Profile**:
University degree in Chemical engineering ;
LEAN Six Sigma Green Belt certification required, Black Black is an advantage ;
Overall work experience of 4 to 7 years including of which at least 2-3 years in a Lean Six Sigma implementation role ;
Experience in people management is an advantage ;
Proven results on leading improvement projects, training, coaching, assessing ;
Exposure to cross-functional teams and projects ;
Good knowledge of product processing and industrialization processes ;
Good skills in project management using TPM, Lean Six Sigma, Strategy Deployment/x-matrix ;
Good skills in stakeholder management and communication ;
Good skills in process mapping and design ;
Good knowledge of value chain diagnostics tools ;
Ability to empower and enable cross
- functional team in a matrix organiza