General Information

Location:

• City: Carnaxide
• Country: Portugal
• Region: Europe

Job Category: Support Job Type: Regular Type of Contract: Permanent Working time: Full-time Work schedule: Day shift Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group?s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world?s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of ?10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program.
Solvay Busines Services (SBS) is the global organization supporting internal and external growth by integrating the major end-to-end administrative processes as well as the information services of the Solvay Group, through three strategic objectives: strategic agility and customer centricity, service excellence and talents and innovation.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

The position is in Solvay Business Services (SBS), Solvay groups? global shared service unit in support of Solvay business/functional units. SBS provides Solvay business/functional units services in Finance, IT, HR, Purchasing, Customer Credit & Trade.
Purpose and key task summary:

• Support SBS Lean Six Sigma (L6S) program

• Manage unit belt pipeline and coach belt progression
• Manage Projects pipeline
• Plan and provide L6S training
• Support the deployment and continuous improvement of the L6S program at SBS
• Lead complex L6S projects

• Drive Cont. Improvement (CI) Cultural Transformation, to support Group shared service unit ambitions in people and process improvements

• Design, drive and support others/SBS leaders, to lead transformations, based on CI systems/toolbox
• Develop CI people foundation through training and animating of CI Champions and line management
• Evolve Cont. Improvement system, benchmarking and adopting internal Solvay Group and external market best practices

Education and Experience

• Master degree in technical or business education
• Prior working experience of minimum 10-15 years including at least 5 years in

> applying Continuous Improvement methods, specifically Lean Six Sigma method & tools > Managing significant transversal L6S improvement projects > In Shared Services environments or in support functions (Finance / Procure-to-Pay / HR / Order to Cash / IT

Skills

• Certified L6S Master Black Belt, or very experienced Black Belt
• Providing training + Coaching L6S belts through the execution of their projects

• Strong Project Management skills
• Change Agent, challenging mindset with strong Communication & Influencing skills
• Results driven with business acumen
• Autonomous with ability to design his/her own work plan to achieve end goals
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment, at ease with ambiguity & changing priorities
• Experience or significant exposure to shared services / GBS environments or to Support functions ( Finance / Procurement / HR / OTC / IT)
• Fluent English
• Nice to have language: French

Additional Information

What describe you:

• You enjoy more than everything, working and supporting people professional growth through challenge and reflection in Excellence
• You are curious and determined in seeing Excellence foster in a Service sector
• You feel at ease to articulate, focus and drive discussions with different stakeholder level
• You like to question "why things are always done this way" and aren't hesitant to roll up sleeves yourself to get the job done
• You are rarely satisfied with your results, and constantly challenge yourself for better ways to work

• 
  Working knowledge/experiences in applying Excellence culture change and transformation
• Ability to quickly build his / her internal network
• Embrace change, resilient
• Working knowledge/experiences in Digital / Agile / SCRUM