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SalaryAre you ready to champion excellence and transform the way we do business? Arco, the UK’s leading integrated health and safety expert, is seeking a dynamic Business Improvement Partner to spearhead our continuous improvement journey. This pivotal role is not just about making incremental changes; it's about revolutionizing our processes, enhancing our operations, and delivering exceptional value to our customers and colleagues.
This is a fixed term role for 12 months, working a hybrid model with 2/3 days within our head office in Hull.
Key responsibilities include:
This is a fixed term role for 12 months, working a hybrid model with 2/3 days within our head office in Hull.
Key responsibilities include:
- Championing Continuous Improvement (CI) culture through a range of activities including; strategic initiatives, projects, improving customer and colleague experience and ad hoc requests
- Engaging functional support and obtaining decisions to ensure that milestones are met
- Developing and maintaining relationships to promote continuous improvement and challenge the status quo to improve efficiency, simplify, reduce costs, drive sales and improve customer/colleague satisfaction
- Working with the business to generate and maintain a pipeline of business process / continuous improvement activities
- Championing changes on behalf of the business, whilst maintaining cross-functional integrity of end-to-end processes
- Using agreed processes and methodology for identifying, defining and documenting continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma tools
- Developing and maintain a network of subject matter experts and business leads to help design, deliver, embed and sustain change in the functions
On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:
- A competitive starting salary plus up to 10% Annual Bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata for part time), plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
The ideal Business Improvement Partner will be/have:
- Expertise and certification in Lean or Six Sigma techniques or process engineering essential
- Use of other formal analysis techniques to understand business needs and process documentation
- Experience in business/continuous improvement roles
- Experience in a commercial environment desirable, across a range of functional disciplines
- Experience of managing stakeholders at all levels
- High quality written and verbal communication skills and ability to adapt to audiences needs
- Clear thinking and ability to join together detail with a higher level big picture
- Ability to operate strategically and tactically
- Good analytical ability, and capable of drawing out key insights to support decision making
