Lean Solutions Manager

The Lean Solutions team is looking for an experienced Continuous Process Improvement Specialist. In this position you will support NAM L&S Customer Delivery, Transported by Maersk mission implementing our NAM Lean Operating Model and strategy to deliver essential strategy deployment goals, improvement, people development, and daily management. Creating results that help drive efficiencies, scalability, reduce cost and/or improve customer experience.

We offer

We offer you an exciting global career at the forefront of world trade.

Working with the best people in a global team culture with future growth opportunities in an industry that has a significant impact on the world economy

We're proud of our people who define our company's industry leadership, global team culture and customer-centric focus every day.

When you join our team you join a truly diverse, global organization in a fast-moving, values-based, work environment where you can grow on the job, create and shape our digital solutions, tap into industry-leading talent development initiatives, enjoy working with your colleagues and broaden your world view through our international job postings. We offer competitive compensation and benefits for full-time employees including health, dental and vision insurance, a 401k savings plan with an employer match and paid time-off - and our parental leave policy is recognized world-wide as one of the best in the industry.

Global scope

Every company, every country wants access to a competitive shipping, logistics and port system - and our people have created one company that offers one, easy-to-use solution to all their shipping needs.

Maersk is unique

Maersk is uniquely positioned to play a significant role in global trade, creating opportunities that help countries, companies and people succeed. Our vision is simple: Maersk is the global integrator of container logistics, connecting and simplifying our customers' global supply chains. We do this through the global scale of Maersk, the world's largest shipping line; our Logistics and Services expertise that help customers manage their global supply chains; and through our port operator, APM Terminals, one of the largest container terminal operators in the world with the most strategic locations to serve global supply chains.

Join us and play an important role on our team lifting global trade every day!

At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job - we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach/ mentor Lean projects to raise the knowledge level of organization and foster alignment to key business priorities.
• Manage transformation efforts and support process improvement projects.
• Assist in the development of Lean focused training material and provide both classroom and on the job education to leaders and colleagues.
• Serve as an expert and role model in the application of the Lean Operating Model's principles and practices
• Work with stakeholders to build a mutual understanding of the organization's current business practices and processes
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement that align with the organization's business strategies and objectives, to increase efficiency, mitigate risks, and improve overall customer service effectiveness.
• Communicate process improvement activities, status updates and return on investment to all stakeholders.
• Monitor and action for overall health of organization against 5 focus areas: Mindset & Behavior, Organization & Skills, Voice of the Customer Performance Management, Process Efficiency & Effectiveness
• Provides recommendations in such areas as process or metric gaps within specific business units and support next steps to resolve. Also consulted about Lean tools and techniques such as Value Stream Mapping as well as develops and manages project plans related to process improvement projects in other parts of the NAM Organization.

Required experience & skills

• Lean Six Sigma certification or industry equivalent (preferred).
• Experience operating in a Lean process improvement environment
• Minimum of 5+ years' Logistics and Support experience
• Strong proficiency in Lean Transformation, Lean Implementation and change management
• Direct experience understanding stakeholder and customer requirements, and how to improve processes to best address those expectations.
• Experience in taking complex problems and tackling them with a methodical, Lean focused approach
• Experience with understanding return on investment
• Experience training others in principles of Lean Methodology.
• Solid team building, coaching, and facilitation skills
• Effective Written/Verbal Communication
• Proven Record in Building Strong Relationships & Networks
• Proven Record of Living Maersk Company Values

Tools & Technologies

• MS Office Suite
• MS Visio
• Delivery of training objectives
• Timely Delivery of Lean activities
• Stakeholder Feedback
• Return on Investment as defined by project problem statement
• Efficiencies gained

Salary Range: 83,800.00 - 120,000.00

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