Regional Operational Excellence Lead

Regional Operational Excellence Lead

Location: U.K. - Site based in Royston with regional reach across UK.

Job Overview

As the Regional Operational Excellence Lead, you will help drive our goals by:

• Partnering with regional operations leaders to identify priorities and improve performance across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Developing and delivering a regional Operational Excellence roadmap aligned to business strategy.
• Leading improvement programmes that enhance safety, quality, productivity, efficiency and cost performance.
• Driving operational maturity through continuous improvement tools, governance and best practice ways of working.
• Building strong cross functional partnerships to support operational priorities and transformational change.
• Leading and developing a team of Operational Excellence specialists while embedding a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience leading Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement or Operations Transformation programmes.
• Black Belt or Master Black Belt certification in Lean Six Sigma, with strong knowledge of structured problem solving methodologies.
• Demonstrated success delivering measurable operational and financial improvements within complex organisations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior operations leaders.
• Excellent analytical, project management and decision making capabilities.
• Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop high performing improvement teams.

Benefits

• Competitive retirement savings and company matched Share Incentive Plan.
• Life Assurance, Income Protection and Critical Illness Medical plans / health assessments.
• Retailer and Wellbeing discounts.
• Competitive annual incentive plan.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements where applicable.

Equal Opportunity

Johnson Matthey Plc is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.