Senior Improvement Manager

at  Vattenfall

Company Description
Vattenfall is a leading European energy company driving the transition to a sustainable energy system. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years and now have a mission of working for fossil freedom. We employ around 20,000 people mostly in our core markets in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK.
Job Description
The Operational Readiness & Excellence department within Generation Offshore is responsible for delivering long-term success for our offshore wind farms, through managing large-scale change and product development projects.
The Operational Excellence team has been created to facilitate growth and the highest possible operating performance through maturing the way of working, particularly around fact-based decision making and implementing a continuous improvement culture.

LOOKING FOR A CAREER WITH GROWTH?

Looking for a role where your superpowers can be leveraged to the maximum and with limitless opportunities for growth?
The scale and ambition of our wind, battery and solar business means you can really find your element with us. We’ll also provide you with all the learning and development you need to expand your horizons.
We strive to be the best place to work in the industry with highly competitive pay and conditions and an open, supportive culture. A commitment to a healthy work-life balance aims to ensure everyone plays to their strengths, whatever their background and experiences.
You will be part of a growing team of 1,700+ colleagues from 50+ nationalities where our positive approach to diversity is reflected in the fact that more than a quarter of staff are women.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for someone who is a real wizard in the field of building a continuous improvement culture in a multi-stakeholder and complex organisational and operational environment. You are intrinsically motived to get to the core of an issue and passionate about helping colleagues create ways of working that are simpler, better and more fulfilling.
The Improvement Manager is responsible for identifying, driving, organising and implementing improvements to ways of working in Offshore Wind Generation, on various levels in the organisation: from senior management to technicians on our wind farms. Your focus will be on enabling the organisation to improve value, by driving improvement projects and programmes, from strategic to operational. Your work will be derived from e.g. gap analysis, customer needs, strategy execution and performance data. “Performance” can include all business-relevant metrics, including Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Sustainability, Quality, Cost, and Revenue.
In addition, you will support with delivering a learning environment for stakeholders and colleagues to be able to initiate, prioritise, execute and implement improvements, including acting as a role-model and actively coaching and advising others on this way of working.
You are creative, curious, a good listener, are not afraid to challenge convention, and always seek to add the most value through your work by contributing to the overarching Vattenfall Strategy. You have excellent communication skills and feel at ease with taking initiative to challenge, inform and train others at all levels of seniority – whilst always looking for an opportunity to learn and develop yourself as well.

Key responsibilities

• Driving a continuous improvement culture through identifying, organising and implementing improvement projects/programmes across the organisation;
• Ensuring business impact and value realisation in a growing and fast changing environment, focusing on people, processes and systems;
• Inspiring, advising, coaching and training management and stakeholders on approach, methodologies and responsibilities.
• Reporting project status through our existing Agile Improvement Portfolio, working closely with the Portfolio Manager to ensure its success and identifying and implementing improvements to this way of workin