Unique Personnel boasts over 50 years (established in 1970) of personnel and staffing experience, so it's not surprising that even though our main focus has been providing on South African Staffing Solutions, we now recruit internationally for over 5000 clients Reporting to: Managing Director Purpose of the Job: Leading quality, planning and procurement teams to drive scale and efficiency and to deliver better outcomes for the organisation, through transformative, comprehensive and self-sustaining Operational Excellence capabilities. Main tasks and responsibilities: Identifying, prioritising and implementing initiatives to improve productivity, quality, service delivery, and/or reducing costs and complexity across the organisation Setting governance for continuous improvement, quality, planning and procurement programmes across multiple functions Leading the development, deployment, and measurement of cross-functional transformation programmes, directing programme management to support such initiatives Embedding a passion for operational excellence within operations programmes, with a focus on business transformation Identifying and capturing business needs / opportunities through communication with stakeholders Driving innovation with systems, processes and technology improvements Leading large complex programmes (supported by Operational Excellence team) to accelerate operational, productivity and service delivery performance Promoting the value of operational excellence across the organisation to create demand for the benefits and a strong continuous improvement culture Setting direction and providing effective, cost efficient and robust techniques to achieve improvements, resulting in high quality and innovative output Facilitating and driving the development of new ideas and concepts with minimal risk and disruption to core business processes / functions. Leading the organisation's capital investment programme, ensuring strong business need, that ROI is developed and targets for growth and profitability are achieved Leading the development of robust and appropriate audit standards and compliance, ensuring effective execution of quality audits and appropriate and timely NCR action plans are closed Leading the organisation's procurement strategies, targeting economies of scale and ensuring that costs are effectively managed, and that the performance of suppliers is maximised Decision Accountability: Own: Resource allocation, Training requirements and plans, Budget spend (with limits of authority) Shared: Resource levels Financial; Budget Holder (cost centre) Qualifications, Experience & Knowledge: Senior management / leadership experience (in an operational organisation) in the pump or similar industry Business Process Improvement Six Sigma Black Belt / Lean Expert certification (desirable) Robotic Process Automation (desirable) Programme Management Policy Deployment Processes Supply Chain / Service / Manufacturing experience (desirable) Competencies & Behaviour required: • Leadership • Safety leadership • Continuous improvement focused • Quality driven • Results driven • Relationship management • Stakeholder management • Influence • Critical decision making • Inclusive & collaborative • Multi-level communication Apply Now

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