Business Process Professional-SME Analytical Lab

Umicore; Olen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Umicore seeks an experienced professional to lead continuous improvement initiatives within the AL organization as the OE process gatekeeper. The role requires SME-level oversight of benchmarking, efficiency, and standardization across sites, with travel to other Business Units in different countries.

The candidate should be able to mentor less experienced colleagues and support OE roadmaps to stay on track, potentially working from Nysa or Hoboken.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement across AL landscape with cost-saving projects and KPI standardization.
• Lead improvement initiatives with management to deliver tangible business gains.
• Coordinate benchmarking of best practices and manage AL continuous improvement community.

Job description

About Umicore

Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.

About Umicore

Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.

About Battery Materials Solutions

Umicore’s battery materials solutions are delivering the future of electric mobility. We improve safety, enable faster charging and boost the range and durability of batteries. But our innovation does not stop there. We offer our customers industry leading battery recycling solutions for critical metals like cobalt, nickel, lithium and copper. To deliver a circular and sustainable battery materials value chain, we cannot stand still. Solving complex mobility challenges demands ambitious thinking and continuous innovation. This is where you come in.

Your Key Accountabilities

• Drive of continuous improvement across the AL landscape, managing projects with important cost savings impact and being accountable for the result, creating/standardizing KPI to measure performance as well as creating optimal standards based on best practices.


• Follow up on the site cost meta data and cost relevant to the subject matter and has a (shared) accountability for business result in the AL area


• Lead important improvement projects to deliver tangible improvement to the business.


• Drive (together with relevant site management) identification of improvement opportunities


• Manage benchmarking of best practices with a clear trajectory and plan of implementation across the AL organization and managing an AL continuous improvement community and AL subject matter expertise areas together with Analytical Technology organization


• Manage and roll out relevant subject matter KPI across the organization, assure standardization, facilitate challenging target setting and follow up on performance


• Manage / benchmark subject matter cost metadata/drivers, follow up on cost performance of the sites in relation to the subject matter and support cost target settings for the site as well as for budgeting and financial modeling


• Gatekeeper of the process, policy and framework


• Manage the AL OE roadmap by driving systematic OE maturity assessments across the AL organization and supporting area’s OE roadmaps to remain on track


• Support as mentor/coach less experienced colleagues in the area of Operational Excellence


• Be able to travel to other Business Units in different countries

Who we are looking for

The holder of this position is able to manage continuous improvement projects and is the gatekeeper of the application of the OE process, framework, tools withing the AL environment. As Subject Matter Expert (SME) will manage/support benchmarking of best practices, efficiency, performance and optimization and assure standardization across the AL landscape. Looking for a certified Black belt. We are looking for a person who will be able to work in Nysa or Hobboken

What We Offer

From time to time required for business travel

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?