Business Excellence Lead - Process Optimization & Dashboards

MWH Treatment; Hattersley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment is seeking a Business Excellence Manager to drive continuous improvement, standardisation and operational performance across the business. You will work closely with operational leaders to ensure lessons learned and best practices are applied to projects, frameworks and functions, enabling predictable, efficient and high-quality delivery.

This leadership role focuses on improving productivity, delivery certainty and business performance by leveraging Lean, Six Sigma and trusted

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading Business Excellence, Operational Excellence or continuous improvement programmes.
• Proven ability to improve productivity, quality or financial performance through structured improvement initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma or related methodologies.
• Experience developing performance measures, dashboards and KPI reporting frameworks.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills to deliver practical improvements.
• Strong analytical skills to translate data into business improvements.
• Excellent stakeholder management with senior operational leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Business Excellence and continuous improvement initiatives across MWH Treatment.
• Drive process optimisation and standardisation to improve consistency, efficiency and delivery performance.
• Analyse performance data, trends and operational feedback to identify improvement opportunities.
• Develop and maintain performance dashboards, KPIs and reporting tools that support informed decision-making.
• Capture and share lessons learned and best practices across projects, regions and functions.
• Support the development and improvement of business management systems, standards and governance processes.
• Partner with operational leaders to deliver measurable performance, productivity and margin improvements.
• Provide strategic insight and performance reporting to senior leadership teams.

Skills

Business Excellence

Operational Excellence

Continuous Improvement

Lean

Six Sigma

KPI Reporting

Data Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Change Management

Job description

MWH Treatment is seeking a Business Excellence Manager to drive continuous improvement, standardisation and operational performance across the business. You will work closely with operational leaders to ensure lessons learned and best practices are applied to projects, frameworks and functions, enabling predictable, efficient and high-quality delivery.

This leadership role focuses on improving productivity, delivery certainty and business performance by leveraging Lean, Six Sigma and trusted