Operational Excellence Manager

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At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world’s leading meal kit company, active in 16 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: GreenChef, EveryPlate, Chef’s Plate, Factor, and Youfoodz.

About the Role:

We are looking for a full-time Operational Excellence Manager at our Edmonton facility. Reporting to the Director of National Production, you will:

• Identify opportunities and gaps in processes; align resources to these priorities; ensure appropriate charters and quality improvement methodologies, tools, and techniques are being used to promote improvements; continue to advocate for future operational improvements by partnering with and challenging the business and leadership in new ideas.
• Promote OpEx capability development programs and partner with functional leaders to implement performance improvement projects in the facility.
• Develop a self-sustaining program by identifying and engaging employees to lead continuous improvement efforts.
• Oversee implementation of HF Operations Strategic projects including Continuous Improvement, Change Management, cost optimization, and Operational Excellence Training.
• Lead large-scale improvement projects within operations or across facilities and coordinate these programs with the project teams.
• Ensure that the organization adopts practices promoting continuous improvement to improve morale, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Communicate best practices and learning across the organization.
• Lead risk identification and risk-mitigating planning
• Organize project post-mortems with all partners and identify critical areas for process improvements
• Influence a large team of indirect reports including associates, managers, and leaders across HelloFresh

You have:

• 5+ years of project management experience in a Manufacturing and/or Supply Chain experience, targeted towards Continuous Improvement implementation
• preferably with a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Engineering, Business or a related field
• Strong understanding of OHS and Food Safety and its application in a warehouse and production environment
• An authentic leader, who’s able to build strong relationships, clearly communicate and motivate, and drive accountability at all levels
• An effective collaborator, who empowers and enables others to share ideas, raises awareness, gets buy-in, and delivers fast and well-rounded solutions to complex problems
• A strong analytical problem solver that identifies and simplifies complex issues and drives rapid, focused, and data-driven solutions
• Energy, enthusiasm, and a can-do attitude. Used to working in a high pressure, fast-paced, and constantly changing environment
• Drive and self-motivation. We seek a leader who competes to win and have the burning desire to make a meaningful difference in our business and the lives of our employees
• Strong understanding of manufacturing and warehouse systems and controls
• Professional certifications and/or licenses with Lean Six Sigma preferred
• Willingness to travel up to 15% of the time

What you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and company benefits
• 75% discount on HelloFresh boxes
• High level of responsibility from day one
• The opportunity to rapidly advance your career
• Working with a fun, ambitious and supportive team

If this sounds like you, please click the "Apply Now" button. If this role doesn’t quite match what you’re looking for, but you’d like to know more about joining the HelloFresh team, please visit our Jobs page to view our other vacancies. We’d love to hear from you!

About HelloFresh

We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!

At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.