About the Role
This 12-month fixed term contract role drives operational excellence and measurable progress through process improvement, enhancing team productivity, eliminating low-value work, and fostering continuous improvement. The role focuses on enabling Cirium teams to own, improve, and evolve their end-to-end processes, increasing time spent on high-value, customer-outcome-led work. Key outcomes include mature process documentation, selective automation and AI application with clear benefits, leadership understanding of process inefficiencies, and a sustained shift towards continuous improvement for productivity and margin gains. The role involves understanding work flows, identifying improvement areas, and applying structured process thinking with objective judgment on automation and AI.
Responsibilities
- Mature Cirium’s process documentation and mapping, creating, recording, and embedding process documentation across the organization
- Conduct workshops with key teams to clarify processes and identify pain points and improvement areas
- Partner with leaders to understand Cirium’s process architecture and deliver a simplified business view
- Introduce and embed simple, repeatable improvement disciplines for teams to sustain independently
- Establish a fact-based approach for deciding what to automate, simplify, standardize, or leave manual, actively supporting this work
- Operate as a credible peer and thought partner to senior leaders, translating ambition into practical progress
Requirements
- Experience in process improvement, operational excellence, transformation, and change
- Practical understanding and experience delivering automation and AI-enabled improvements
- Experience with Six Sigma or similar continuous improvement methodologies
- Strong judgment and comfort making trade-offs in complex, ambiguous environments
- Curiosity, learning agility, and a willingness to constructively challenge established ways of working
Skills
- Process excellence
- Coaching
- Automation pipeline development
- Application of technology and tools for improved outcomes
- Strong judgment
- Ability to make trade-offs in complex environments
- Curiosity
- Learning agility
- Constructive challenge of established methods
Work Type
- Fixed Term Contract
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance with option to buy additional days
- Health screening, eye care vouchers, and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Optional Dental Insurance
- Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RECARES days for supporting charities and causes
- Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
- Access to extensive learning and development resources
- Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
About the Company
- Cirium is the industry leader in aviation analytics, helping customers understand the past, present, and future of aviation. Its mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, and financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation.
- RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results, and be more productive. Its purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge, doctors and nurses improve patient lives, lawyers promote the rule of law, businesses and governments prevent fraud, and consumers access financial services and fair prices.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process; accommodations or adjustments available upon request.
- An equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.
