What will you be doing
Process Excellence and Continuous Improvement -
- Drive Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen and Gemba initiatives to improve efficiency, quality, and customer outcomes.
- Lead Value Stream Mapping exercises to identify waste, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
- Identify, standardize, and scale best practices across Europe, APAC, and Americas.
- Foster and embed a strong continuous improvement culture within Global Customer Care operations.
- Translate improvement initiatives into measurable outcomes aligned to business and customer KPIs.
Transition Leadership Change Management:
- Lead end-to-end process transitions and migrations, ensuring smooth execution, minimal disruption, and rapid stabilization.
- Own transition governance including risk assessment, mitigation planning, and readiness validation.
- Act as a single point of contact and voice of transitions to leadership, providing structured updates on progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Partner with global teams to ensure effective knowledge transfer, documentation, and post-transition support.
Project Management Strategic Initiatives:
- Apply PMP methodologies to plan, execute, track, and close projects on time and within scope.
- Lead and support strategic Customer Experience initiatives (NPS, CSAT), converting insights into actionable improvements.
- Manage interdependencies across initiatives and ensure alignment with broader Global Customer Care strategy.
- Collaborate with and manage external vendors, ensuring delivery against SLAs, quality standards, and contractual commitments.
SOP Governance, Audits Compliance
- Own and drive SOP audits, reviews, and periodic validations to ensure process adherence and standardization.
- Ensure SOPs are current, compliant, and effectively embedded within operations.
- Identify gaps through audits and reviews and lead corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs).
- Partner with site leadership to ensure audit readiness and sustained compliance.
Operational Excellence, KPIs Governance
- Monitor, analyse, and maintain Site KPIs, ensuring performance trends are visible and improvement actions are driven.
- Facilitate and govern MBRs, QBRs, and operational reviews, providing clear insights and recommendations.
- Drive improvements in service levels, productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction metrics.
- Ensure alignment with Global Customer Care and Supply Chain standards.
Smith Nephew Operating System (SNOS) Enablement
- Lead and drive the adoption of the Smith Nephew Operating System (SNOS) across the site.
- Ensure Tier 0 to Tier 3 reporting is embedded, consistently followed, and effective.
- Conduct regular SNOS audits to validate compliance at both team and site levels.
- Coach leaders and teams on SNOS principles, behaviours, and cadence to build operational maturity.
- Ensure the site remains audit-compliant and aligned to SNOS expectations.
Stakeholder Vendor Management
- Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and senior leadership to align priorities and outcomes.
- Influence decision-making through data-driven insights and structured problem-solving.
- Ensure vendor accountability, performance tracking, and continuous improvement.
What will you need to be successful
- Education: Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration, Supply Chain or related field in Manufacturing/Service industry.
- Experience: Minimum 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in Process excellence, PMO, transformation and Transition.
- Strong expertise in Process Excellence, Lean, Six Sigma, Gemba , and Kaizen methodologies.
- Proven experience in PMO/project management (PMP preferred), driving initiatives from concept to execution.
- Ability to lead transitions , ensuring seamless process migration and stabilization.
- Expertise in Value Stream Mapping to drive operational improvements.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and influence decision-making at leadership levels.
- Strong analytical mindset with an eye for detail and a passion for driving data-backed improvements.
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and demand accountability from vendors.
- Experience in working across global teams and diverse time zones .
- This Role demands working 5 days working from Office - No Hybrid Model Available.