Operational Excellence Consultant

Our client is a Global Investment Manager, based in the city of London, they are seeking an Operational Excellence or Lean expert with experience within financial services of delivering tangible benefits. You will be a self-starter, able to manage your own work within a project, comfortable conducting analysis and designing solutions to complex problems.

The Operational Excellence team develops a sustainable Lean capability within the organisation, resulting in improvements in process efficiency, productivity, quality and customer satisfaction, as well as developing a culture of continuous improvement across the firm.

Candidates will have: 

• Working knowledge of Lean principles and Operational Excellence best practices, backed up with industry recognised qualification and/or certification such as Lean 6 Sigma.
• Experience of stakeholder management in a consultancy context
• An understanding of change management disciplines, processes and tools, including:

– experience of each of the key stages of change delivery

– planning and progress tracking mechanisms

– effective means of monitoring and managing issues, risks and dependencies

– strong reporting skills

– managing stakeholders

• An advanced understanding and experience of iterative delivery methodologies, such as Agile and Scaled Agile
• An understanding of, and preferably experience in, business process management
• Experience in facilitating workshops and delivering training and coaching
• Strong analytical skills

(This role is temporarily remote)

Salary to £85K base