Lean Practitioner - Hybrid | Continuous Improvement

SGN; Farringdon; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Joint-contribution pension (12% total)

Enhanced maternity & family leave

Life assurance

HolidayPlus

Virtual GP & EAP plus discounts

Job summary

SGN is seeking a Lean Central Practice Team Member in the United Kingdom to help embed Lean thinking and drive continuous improvement across regions. You will collaborate with the Lean Lead and Lean Managers to deliver Lean initiatives and support regional teams in implementing sustainable improvements.

The role focuses on supporting regions, developing Lean capability to Green belt level, and maintaining Lean documentation and communications.

Qualifications

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to influence.
• Knowledge of MS Office tools (Excel, Power Apps, etc.).
• Some knowledge of process improvement methodology via Lean programme or other.
• Passionate and enthusiastic about process and performance improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support regions with continuous improvement projects, co-owning individual initiatives (supporting areas and teams to ‘help themselves’ in the development of pilots and trials, measuring and reviewing results and implementing permanent solutions, confirming success, rolling out region-specific initiatives network-wide across all regions).
• Develop own knowledge and skills to Green belt level (minimum).
• Support Operational teams with the ongoing development of Lean skills and understanding and use of tools (Process and value stream mapping, root cause analysis, PDCA and DMAIC etc.).
• Provide support to Lean Lead and LCP colleagues with the development of Lean comms activities, the coordination and collation of Lean Initiative documentation (Initiative Trackers and Benefits Tracker), maintenance and updating of the Lean Central.
• Provide additional support to the Lean Lead.

Skills

Good communication

Ability to influence

Process improvement mindset

Passionate about improvement

Tools

MS Excel

Power Apps

MS Office

Job description

SGN is seeking a Lean Central Practice Team Member in the United Kingdom to help embed Lean thinking and drive continuous improvement across regions. You will collaborate with the Lean Lead and Lean Managers to deliver Lean initiatives and support regional teams in implementing sustainable improvements.

The role focuses on supporting regions, developing Lean capability to Green belt level, and maintaining Lean documentation and communications.