Operational Excellence Lead
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Job Description
As the Operational Excellence Lead for the joint USBU and OBU DD&T organization, you will report to the Head of Portfolio Strategy & Operational Excellence. In this role, you will be accountable for leading all operational excellence activities across this new, integrated organization, including contract management and interfacing with budget management teams, annual operating calendar management, team coordination, meeting logistics, and rolling out and embedding operational excellence skills and capabilities across teams - with the objective of upskilling colleagues to run lean, efficient, and effective teams.
This Portfolio Strategy & Operational Excellence team is accountable to deliver consistent operations across the USBU and OBU DD&T organization, which accelerates our ability to set common operational reporting, KPIs and targets, and to have performance discussions with our business stakeholders and strategy and operational peers.
As an Operational Excellence Lead, you will be responsible for:
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Build trusted relationships with the USBU and OBU DD&T Team, BU and DD&T Strategy and Operations teams, Finance, and Procurement partners to establish simple, transparent ways of working and drive continuous improvement.
Monitoring overall USBU and OBU DD&T ways of working to drive productivity and predictability in operating rhythms.
Drives operational excellence framework and capabilities across all USBU and OBU DD&T teams.
Owns the Annual Operating Calendar for USBU and OBU DD&T that integrates business planning milestones and enterprise DD&T operating model cadence.
Establishes and drives process and ways of working for contract management, collaboration with budget managers, and forecasting across entire team.
Identifies opportunities to simplify processes, operationalize repeatable work across the organization, leverage enterprise tools and processes to drive productivity.
Responsible for operating the end-to-end
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