Job Description
Operations Support Manager
Full Time
Derby or Bristol or Solihull/Hybrid (3 days/week on-site)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operations Support Manager to join our team. In this role, you will support our global supply chain to resolve critical issues and mitigate risk, by fostering strong relationships to enhance and improve Cost, Quality and Delivery.
Please note that due to the nature of this role, you will need to spend approximately 75% of your working time travelling both domestically and internationally.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.
We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.
We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
With this challenging and multi-faceted role, you’ll get a chance to use your expertise to establish sustainable, long-term supply chains, providing a competitive edge for Rolls-Royce, our customers, and suppliers. Reporting to the Head of Operations Support, you will work with specific suppliers to define and lead the support programmes and activities required to address performance issues.
What we offer:
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.
What you will be doing:
As an Operations Support Manager you will support engagements with our Suppliers from the initial analytics week, through the engagement to exit and handover back to the Supplier Management Team. You will also:
- Drive the identification, development and implementation of these robust supply chain processes and tools to prevent future risks of failure.
- Work with specific suppliers to define the support programme.
- Provide transparency on resources and activities required to address performance issues.
- Lead the execution of the support programme and integrate across organisational boundaries to deliver it.
Who we’re looking for:
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. For this role you will need to demonstrate understanding of the appliable health and safety standards and we are looking for someone who is/has:
- Tenacity, drive and flexibility are key attributes of all the leaders within the team along with an ability to build relationships and drive output.
- Six Sigma Green or Black Belt desirable.
- Effective problem solver, with knowledge and experience of using lean tools and techniques successfully to deliver improvements and create value.
- Operational (manufacturing) experience. Engineering knowledge/experience desirable.
- Planning & control knowledge/experience desirable.
- Strong team player, able to lead cross-functional teams and drive sustainable change to meet quality and delivery improvements across the Supply Chain.
- Able to work in challenging environments, with great engagement and influencing skills, to build trust and strong relationships at all levels.
- Experience of leading significant projects/programmes across a range of improvement activities.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
Job Category
Business Improvement
Posting Date
08 Nov 2024; 00:11
Posting End Date
13 Nov 2024
