Regional Lean Manager

• Roll-out of Lean Management methodology for Team Leaders and their teams across the region.
• Enabling culture of continuous improvement.
• Identification of areas for improvement within Coface operations.
• Development of tactics for carrying out improvements.
• Providing Lean Management methodology consultation and training.
• Structured coaching of Team Leaders and key employees regarding lean tools and management on an ongoing basis.
• Supporting usage of key lean tools (if needed for complex topics), e.g. to facilitate a Value Stream Mapping session, facilitating 5S standups, performing Gemba Walk, etc.
• Helping to remove obstacles and distractions that may impede Team Leaders from meeting goals.
• Ensuring adherence to Lean principles and values.
• All these activities will be performed with the support of an Operations team at group and regional levels, including projects execution.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience in process management, including lean methodologies, and organizational transformation contexts in international companies and/or consultancy companies.
• Excellent -proven- ability to coach, mentor and consult operations teams in developing lean culture.
• Strong communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge of lean methodologies and tools. Lean Master Black Belt certification (or similar) will be an advantage.
• Excellent level of English required; third language preferred.
• Solid project management skills.
• Strong leadership capacity, authenticity, collaboration and open communication.
• Excellent ability to facilitate workshops.
• Strong ability to promote and enable operations teams to unleash the creativity of its team members.
• Ability to bring all insights from different operations teams together so that the system can continuously keep improving.
• Ability to set clear goals, priorities and standards, strong orientation on results, eager for achievements.
• Excellent abilities to cooperate and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Experience in working as Operations leader (middle-management position) will be an advantage.
• Experience in Financial Sector will be an advantage.