OPEX Manager

Job Description

Accountabilities:

• Lead automation idea-generation workshops to build a healthy automation pipeline of ideas
• Drive completion of automation projects by working collaboratively with automation practitioners, developers, champions, and stakeholders.
• Maintain a list of automation opportunities and facilitate the prioritization by working collaboratively with automation leads, automation practitioners, developers, champions, and stakeholders.
• Assess the need for additional automation trainings, capability-building and provide recommendations as necessary.
• Provide mentoring support to automation practitioners, developers, and champions as applicable.
• Effectively communicate in OPEX Forum the overall progress, risks, challenges and provide recommendations to mitigate them.
• Communicate automation success stories through corporate communication, leadership meetings and other channels as appropriate to enable best practice sharing and community of practice
• Reward and recognize automation project teams who successfully deliver projects (with validation of Finance team).
• Be involved in the retrospective meetings to help improve the automation deployment.

Process Excellence and Lean Six Sigma:

• Identify and organize enterprise-wide projects and initiatives to improve operational effectiveness of the organization
• Partner with senior leaders and business partners for end-to-end process simplification using Process Excellence and Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies, leverage common automation initiatives, eliminate process inefficiencies, and ensure alignment with relevant RELX workstreams
• Facilitate CI trainings such as CI Champion, Yellow Belt, Green Belt, SCM and other applicable CI trainings.
• Educate, coach, and mentor Green and Yellow Belts on Lean Six Sigma tools, methodologies.
• Plan and successfully execute continuous improvement projects to meet goals and support strategic priorities, delivering recommended improvements with supporting business rationale.
• Serve as catalyst for change by stimulating, communicating, and institutionalizing Lean Six Sigma methodologies and the benefits these capabilities provide.
• Drive cultural changes across the business and support deployment of the Lean Six Sigma program
• Facilitate rapid improvement events targeting specific improvement opportunities in the business.
• Communicate progress through OPEX forums and other applicable channels

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree
• Must have at least 7 years of relevant working experience at least 3 years of which is experience in leading automation projects (e.g. RPA and other industry-leading automation solutions)
• Six Sigma Trainings and Certification (GB, BB, MBB) ideal but not mandatory
• Automation Training and Certification
• Agile Training and Certification
• Project Management Training and Certification (PMP, Prince2, Scrum Master) ideal qualification but not mandatory
• Open to work in a shifting schedule
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentational)
• Willing and able to work on any flexible shift to meet business needs

• Maternity leaves, Paternity leaves, Annual leaves, Rewards & recognition, Performance bonus, Retirement benefits, Health insurance, Life insurance