Manager Business Process Excellence - Engineer to Order in Oberkochen, Jena or Munich in Oberkochen bei ZEISS Group

This function offers you the chance to work in one of ZEISS' key group programs and to drive harmonization and standardization of processes and structures that define the way how ZEISS will work for years to come

Together with the senior manager of your stream, you will take on a moderating role, understanding and mastering the individual processes, in order to moderate between the ZEISS functions and process experts in a goal-oriented manner

Together, you will steer and orchestrate necessary external consulting support within your workstream

In addition, you will exchange information with all other end-to-end streams to ensure best practice sharing and integration into related processes and report your results to the overall program management

You own the alignment of your workstream progress with the senior manager of your stream, ensure planning, implementation and improvement measures of your workstream and thus make a significant contribution to the overall project success

You will take responsibility to achieve the best solution for ZEISS, balancing individual functional and segment needs by contributing to the Engineer-to-Order workstream

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, industrial engineering or a similar field of study

Proven experience driving projects in the area of business process excellence or in a similar performance improvement related environment

Experience with SAP ERP or S/4 HANA transformation projects

Knowledge of the Engineer-to-Order process for tailored product business

Results-oriented, analytical and organizational skills paired with strong change communications skills to develop and successfully implement strategic plans

A strong change management perspective

Strong German and English skills, both written and spoken