Senior Operational Excellence Manager - Stockholm or Linköping

At Arla, we are dedicated to achieving world-class standards in operational excellence, and we are now seeking a Senior Operational Excellence Manager in Sweden to join our central operational excellence and digital team, driving and leading the regional Arla Performance System (APS) strategy and implementation across the sites in our Swedish market and playing a key role in moving our production towards our vision of ZERO losses, ONE team and 100% engagement.

 

How you will make an impact

As our new Senior Operational Excellence Manager, you will be part of the Market VP Leadership Team based at our Stockholm Head Office. You will take a leading role in our operational excellence implementation and shaping a culture of continuous improvement across your market. A key focus, apart from leading the OpEx journey in the market, will be to own and lead globally the development and governance of specific APS methodologies and work practices and acting as the subject matter expert within that area. 

 

Through regular site visits (Linköping and Götene) you will provide hands-on coaching at all levels, assess progress, support site management teams, and ensure that Operational Excellence initiatives are successfully implemented and sustained across sites.  Travelling 25-40% is required, especially to Linköping and Götene Dairy, and a occasionally  to Denmark. As part of the implementation strategy you will ensure successful management of pilot implementation and supporting sufficient capability building strategies for sites to sustain their own initiatives as well as successful expansion of APS to further sites as defined in well developed roll out plans.  You will also take a leading role in initiating and fostering strong operational excellence communities within and across key production markets.  In addition, you will spearhead efforts to digitalize and automate processes where possible and foster a collaborative environment across cross-functional teams to achieve a zero-loss culture.

 

As part of the Market VP Production area where you hold the operational excellence responsibilities we have defined a Lighthouse site and structured roll out approach to all sites.  As such, you will be ensuring the implementation of world class operational excellence practices and standards first at the defined lighthouse site.  Following that, and as part of the structure roll out of these practices you will ensure the right design, support structure and speed of expansion of APS and digital transformation roll out from the Lighthouse to the next waves of sites, ensuring the right adherance and consistency of standards aligned to the global model and programmes.  For this framework to be successful you will ensure and foster close collaboration with all Lighthouse sites across the other Market regions as well as fostering the “in market” communities to accelerate best practice sharing, capability development and expansion of the various programmes and initiatives within operational excellence.

 

Your key responsibilities will be to:

•Drive and lead the implementation of APS, leveraging TPM and Lean methodologies to optimize performance across multiple site regions including Lighthouses and expansion to other sites.

•Function as a key sparring partner in driving the operational excellence and balanced scorecard (SQCDMP) progress and results in the market.

•Use regular site visits to drive the OpEx agenda and APS program forward and partner with Senior OpEx Managers across regions to build APS and digital communities.

•Develop and implement world-class operational excellence ways of working and drive the standardization of processes across multiple production sites fostering communities and collaboration across Lighthouse sites and within regions.

•Facilitate workshops, training sessions and on-the-job coaching in developing capability at all levels to sustain a site and market operational