Commercial Continuous Improvement Manager, Eastern Europe

Continuous Improvement Warszawa, Poland

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Description

Xylem is a leading water technology company committed to "solving water" by creating innovative and smart technology solutions to meet the world's water, wastewater and energy needs Xylem’s well-known global brands have served the water market for many decades with products sold in more than 150 countries. The Company's more than 16,500 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Xylem does business with more than 40 market-leading product brands.

 

XYLEM is looking for a new colleague for the following position:

 

Commercial Continuous Improvement Manager, Eastern Europe

 

 

OBJECTIVE

  • Partner with the Management teams of Commercial Teams across Eastern Europe with the aims of:

- Creating value for customers through process optimization

- Execution of strategic projects

- Improving internal processes

- Gaining productivity, therefore better cost management

  • Use customer feedbacks to improve processes
  • Facilitate, train and coach CT team members to approach problems and project management
  • Work with operating leaders, teams to identify improvement opportunities 
  • Constantly seek, share and implement best practices.
  • Lead and facilitate cross-functional project teams.
  • Identify  and  manage  resources  required  to  successfully  execute projects
  • Communicate teams' progress to local and Regional Management Team
  • Educate, coach, and mentor Lean Practitioners on LSS philosophy and application
  • Assure appropriate process and financial metrics to validate projects result achievement and track improvements
  • Responsible for savings targets for the CTs
  • Supporting transformation activities
  • Supporting departments to be more efficient with processes and identifying improvement opportunities to save costs and become more efficient
  • Act as a change agent and change leader for the CTs
  • Facilitate workshops or kaizens to support sales teams with analysis and decision making
  • Other reporting, advanced analysis and supporting activities to enable the CT to be more efficient with decision making, creation of better reporting tools etc.

 

REQUIRED SKILLS / EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS 

  • BA, MSC degree
  • 3+ years of experience in project management
  • Fluent in English
  • Black Belt certification
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
  • Strong negotiation and presentation skills
  • Willingness to travel (domestic and abroad a few times a year)
  • MS Office user-level knowledge

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