Lean Programme Leader - Brussels, België - Eurofins

Eurofins

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Brussels, België

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Sophie Dubois

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Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable.

From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Job Description:

The Lean Programme Leader supports
the
development and implementation of Operational Excellence capabilities by driving multi-site projects, coaching local and international cross-functional teams, and further developing the "Eurofins Lean Academy" and the "Eurofins Lean Network".

A key task within this role is the development of standardised tools that can be used by all Lean and Operational Excellence practitioners across all Eurofins National Business Lines (global scope).

The focus of the Eurofins Permanent Improvement Programmes is driving sustainable cultural change and implementing standard methods. Programme Leaders use a defined Operational Excellence methodology adapted to the service industry.

Strong project and change management skills are required for successful transformation and for building (Lean) capabilities in a decentralised organization such as Eurofins.

Tasks include but are not limited to:

Launching
and running
/coaching** Lean
and other operational excellence
projects. **Based on the Eurofins Lean methodology, you will structure, launch and (for more complex projects) co-run the operational improvement projects jointly with the Business Lines' Lean Project Managers and/or technical experts. To ensure impact, you will always participate in the structuring phase, diagnostic phase, generation of the project plan, and in most cases, the implementation of the pilot phase. Your main goal is to grow local Lean resources, so that ultimately, daily improvement projects can be run autonomously by local employees.

- **Defining and developing
laborator**y layouts
and standard
processes (blueprints). Given its portfolio of capabilities and strong international presence, Eurofins is permanently driving towards identifying and implementing Operational Best Practices. One strong lever is the planning of Lab Layouts and lab processes prior to the building / renovation of a new site. You will support the definitions of the optimal laboratory layout and the optimal work cells right from the beginning of the project. This involves both basic tools, such as sample flow definition and VSM, as well as more advanced tools, such as discrete time simulation.
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Programme Management. You will oversee a portfolio of projects executed within the Lean network, and will directly manage a portfolio of strategic projects at regional and international level. This means that you must be comfortable with delivering and overseeing several workstreams in parallel

Qualifications:

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Personal Skills:

Strong change management skills required.

Good interpersonal skills (team management, written and oral communication, presentation skills) are as important as the functional skills, if not more, since the operational excellence programme is all about changing the way people work.

In the Eurofins culture of decentralised decision-making, change management skills are imperative.

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Initial Education Background:

Engineering, science or economics degree.

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Additional Education Background:

Extensive formal and on-the-job training of Lean / operational excellence concepts is a strong plus.

Formal certification
(university, Black Belt, etc.) is
not mandatory
but appreciated.
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Language skills and level expected:
English is required.

Any other language of a country where Eurofins has operating companies is a plus.
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Technical knowledge (e.g. IT, etc.

):

General knowledge of data systems, IT architecture and production control is helpful.

The position calls for someone that is excited to travel **in Europe
(weekday travel) according to open projects. The role may also include trips outside of your normal region.

Additional Information

**Sustainability matters to us
We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal

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