Lean Champion
Location: Łódź
Organization: Philips Poland Sp. z o.o.
Job ID no: 201923
Philips is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in Healthcare, Lifestyle and Lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights.
Under the umbrella of Royal Philips, Philips Finance manages and performs transactional finance activities within the Accounting Operations function. To further optimize our European footprint we are now in the process of consolidating regional European Purchase to Pay (P2P) activities into one Hub in Łódź. With our years of experience and our Philips vision to improve 3 billion lives by 2015 we know that people are key to the success of this transition – join us in this exciting journey!
We are currently looking for a Lean Champion to propose, lead, facilitate and manage the Lean activities within our newly created regional Hub.
Your challenge
As part of Philips Finance regional Hub in Łodź your challenge will be to coordinate the necessary training and coaching to the management team, and facilitate the delivery either personally or by using internal and/or external expertise. In the role of Lean Champion you will respectfully challenge the status quo and be the role model for Lean thinking.
Your responsibilities
Develop people
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Deliver training either directly or via site deployment coaches or other internal or external experts.
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Provide coaching to management team members and kaizen leads on event planning, execution and follow up.
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Provide support to the management team on the delivery of results.
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Develop and maintain networks with peers across Philips deployment sites and known external benchmarks and best practices.
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Provide proposals for the 100 week vision to bring the site in line with external benchmarks and best practices.
Communicate the Lean vision
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Maintain consistent behavior in line with the Lean behaviours.
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Coaches the management team on the consistent lean behaviours.
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Communicates the management team’s Lean vision to all stakeholders.
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Publicise and celebrate the success of the deployment within and beyond the site.
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Incorporate Lean into the agenda of all site visits.
Deliver results
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Manage the deployment in line with the deployment roadmap milestones and deliverables.
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Report the progress of the deployment during the weekly steering team meeting and weekly deployment storyboard reviews.
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Prepare for and recommend GO/NO GO and Phase Gate exit Reviews.
Your profile
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A Bachelors or Master’s degree is required.
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A minimum of 5 years’ working experience is required.
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Experience in Lean deployment is required.
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Expert Lean certification is a preference to start and must be gained within 2 years.
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Business English both spoken and written is required.
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A passion for Continuous Improvement.
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Great networking skills.
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The ability to enthuse colleagues in Lean Thinking as a business necessity.
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Able to work at multiple levels of the organization, from Team Members on the Shop-floor to Senior Managers in the BGs.
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A belief in 'walking the talk' and working as a member of a team.
Our offer
We offer the unique combination of a critical and challenging role and a creative and empowering office environment. You will be actively encouraged to make improvements, establish best in class Purchase to Pay service and have a direct impact on the success of Philips on a daily basis.
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Opportunity to build new financial capability for Royal Philips.
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Learning and development tailored for financial professionals.
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Yearly bonus based on performance achieved.
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Private medical care with option to extend it to family members.
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Benefit System cards.
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Discount for Philips’ products.
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Relocation package applicable for people moving in from outside of Łódź region.