Regional Lean Champion - Top Potential

Philips Consumer Lifestyle offers rich, new consumer experiences that meet consumers' desire for wellness and pleasure, starting from our consumer insights and guided by our brand promise of Sense and Simplicity". We are a highly consumer driven organization looking at the individual's interests in terms of their Space, their Mind, their Body, and their Appearance.Philips Consumer Lifestyle is one of three market-driven sectors within Royal Philips Electronics, delivering lifestyle solutions for personal wellbeing. Consumer Lifestyle's headquarter is based in Amsterdam with its highly international workforce of approximately 25,000 employees spread over 50 countries with sales in more than 100 countries. Philips Consumer Lifestyle operates in the business activities TV, Audio and Video, Personal Care, Small Domestic Appliances, Mother & Child Care, Electronic Accessories and Professional & Business Solutions.Examples of our products are the Whole-fruit juicer, Swarovski encrusted headphones, Aurea ambilight television, Wake-up Light, arcitec shaver and the One-touch espresso machine. Philips Consumer Lifestyle Your Responsibilities: For an experienced candidate with a 'can do' attitude and sound background in manufacturing and operations in a bluechip company where he/she has developed a passion for LEAN disciplines within manufacturing or transactional operations, Philips has a career defining opportunity as our Regional LEAN Champion. We need you to help us redefine the current organizational structure and ways of working to enable our Philips Vision 2010 by deploying the simplyPHILIPS methodology that is currently transforming our business with strong results and ambitious targets . Bring your progressive managerial style and strong team-building skills that are focused on quality, productivity and results, and make an indelible mark on an industry leader being a key enabler for the success of our vision 2010.As our Regional Lean Champion, reporting to the global deployment leader, you will have overall leadership for deploying the simplyPHILIPS operating system in all your region's manufacturing centers, including key suppliers.As a key member of the functional staff, the Regional Lean Champion will work top down, from management to shop-floor, with suppliers and other Philips units to identify and facilitate key projects that will improve quality, reduce costs, improve cycle time and provide the optimum benefits to customers and the business through waste/costs reduction. You will promote and facilitate the implementation of simplyPHILIPS operating System into Philips' regional manufacturing facilities, logistics network and key suppliers in the region utilising the Standard Implementation Framework to drive improvement across each of the impact metrics, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Cash and People...You will act as a change agent, leader and coach for all employees (senior managers to workers) for these and other proven continuous improvement methods designed to enable more efficient ways of working, sustainable cost reduction and improve our bottom line. Your Profile: In order to succeed you have a solid Manufacturing background (+10 years experience), preferably in the automotive domain, a LEAN / Six Sigma certification would be a plus but your personal energy, drive and ability to lead a significant change initiative will be the key enablers for success.You should be willing to travel extensively and feel comfortable working within the actual manufacturing environment. Success will bring a high level of visibility in the Philips consumer Lifestyle organization and place you well for future career development.Should you recognize yourself and feel challenged by this opportunity, please do apply, we will get back to you very soon. Contacts: Francois Lafon +31 40 27 40847 Notes Job ID: 54292 Apply here View all "Philips" jobs Learn more about Philips Send this Job to a Friend