Operational Excellence Practitioner

For one of our clients in the pharmaceutical industry, we are currentlylooking for a Planner Operational Excellence Practitioner

Start: ASAP
Duration: 6 months with a possibility of being extended
Location: South of Brussels

Mission Purpose:

To provide Planning and Operational Excellence to support ProjectManagement Office (PMO) to deliver their Strategy across Belgium Sitesin the most efficient, robust and reproducible way.
Responsibilities:

Planner:
- Contribute to the deployment of a project Portfolio Office with focuson the Manufacturing Production Unit (MPU).

o Dashboard
o Preparation of WBS and related diagrams
o Schedule ( Gantt chart - significant milestone )
o Resource allocation
o Workload estimation by resource
o Objectively track progress of the program
o Risk analysis
o Identification of issues and risks with the program
o Benefits valorisation
o Assessment of the benefits to the organization
o Define the need of equipment to be released for trials
o Assessment of Impact on production
o Minimize production disruption
o Cost estimation ( raw materials, component , )
o Provisioning and Procurement impact estimation
o Centralize information
- Delivery of benefits as identified in the project business cases;
- Provide advice, support and mentoring to Project Managers andLeaders, on OE tools, methodologies and Lean Culture deployment;
- Actively encourage and support use of collaborative tools andprocesses (KM) to enable a lean and effective MPU or project includingfunctional working of processes;
- Develop and enhance a culture of Excellence to do things simpler,smarter, and quicker and in a robust, reproducible way;
- Ensure effective communication for OE transversal QIP programs/projects;
- Network with Local OE champions/experts to exchange knowledge,learning and good practices (member of Belgium OE Forum);
- Remove barriers to progress.
- KPI definition, visualisation and follow up

Profile:

- University Science Degree;
- 5 to 10 years industrial experience (Pharma, food, automotive,hospital, petro-chemical .)
- Minimum of 2 Years experience in planning;
- OE Green Belt or working towards this certification;
- Excellent Communication skills
- Change Management and training aptitude;
- Project Management (use of all PMO processes defined inStrategic Performance Management);
- Animation/Presentation/Training skills;
- Assertive;
- Team Spirit;
- Pragmatic;
- Expertise in OE principles/tools/methodologies/application