Culina Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides logistics, warehousing, distribution, and other services for the food and drink industry in United Kingdom and Ireland. It provides chilled, ambient, contract packaging, and bonded logistics services, as well as value-added services, such as online visibility and systems integration, pallet management, and supply chain management.

Reporting to Operations Director, the Head of Projects and Continuous Improvement will be responsible for the design, development and implementation of a business wide change strategy.

Key Duties

• Development and implementation of the OE vision / strategy with a prioritised approach to unlock value in the supply chain.
• Creation of a new team structure to enable effective delivery of the strategy.
• Establishing detailed tactical plans to improve operational maturity, to enhance efficiency whilst engaging with key stakeholders to obtain buy-in.
• Use Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to improve business processes delivering cost reduction and quality improvements in both transport and warehousing.
• Build effective and credible working relationships with different groups and functions. Identify resistance and manage change through motivating and influencing skills.
• Identification of innovation and technological improvements through formal review to reduce waste and streamline processes ensuring best-practice is shared and standardisation is promoted across the network.
• Delivery of business plan targets and KPI improvements
• Supporting wider business change and IT initiatives through review of operational impact and ensuring go-live readiness
• Delivery of CI business plan targets ensuring delivery of financial targets, documentation of initiatives and creation of value trackers. Validation of savings with finance linking improvement activity to P&L cost reduction

• Development of business wide strategy
• Extensive knowledge / thought leader in Lean and Six Sigma methodologies
• Expert in both project management and continuous improvement with a proficient knowledge of change management techniques. 
• Sound understanding of statistical analysis and its application. 
• Project planning skills to ensure smooth operational delivery
• Cost-assessment / demonstrates financial control
• Facilitation skills – leads effective meetings and training sessions
• Ability to integrate data findings into business decisions
• Uses effective communication to sell and influence senior stakeholders
• Able to provide leadership and coaching to both direct team and those involved with CI / project activity.

What's on offer:

• Competitive basic salary and holiday entitlement 
• Bonus
• Company Car / Car Allowance
• Family Private Health Care
• Life Assurance

As well as this you have access to some other fantastic optional benefits such as Cycle2Work Scheme, and discounts and savings on 100's of retailers.

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