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About the Role
DP World is seeking an experienced Lean leader to accelerate the implementation of its Lean Business System across its European Ports & Terminals network. This role is instrumental in supporting operational transformation and enhancing business performance as DP World evolves into an end-to-end supply chain provider. You will drive Lean adoption, develop local champions, and embed best practices, influencing strategic priorities and daily operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the deployment and ongoing development of the Lean Business System (LBS) across the European Ports & Terminals network.
- Coach and mentor regional leaders, business unit management teams, and operational stakeholders on Lean principles, leadership behaviours, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Drive the adoption of Lean thinking to support operational efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety improvements.
- Facilitate continuous improvement initiatives and strategic transformation programmes aligned to regional business objectives.
- Partner with site leadership teams to identify improvement opportunities and develop sustainable solutions.
- Promote a culture of problem-solving, employee engagement, and accountability through Lean tools and methodologies.
- Support the implementation of strategy deployment processes, ensuring alignment between business priorities and operational execution.
- Deliver Lean training, workshops, and capability-building programmes across multiple countries and locations.
- Utilise Lean methodologies including Value Stream Mapping, A3 Problem Solving, Hoshin Kanri, and Training Within Industry (TWI) to improve business performance.
- Share best practice across the region and collaborate with global Lean teams to ensure consistency and knowledge exchange.
- Monitor and report on improvement activities, benefits realisation, and programme effectiveness.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across different functions, locations, and cultures to drive successful change adoption.
- Act as a trusted advisor and champion for continuous improvement throughout the organisation.
- Promote DP World values, safety culture, and commitment to operational excellence in all activities.
Requirements
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience leading Lean transformation programmes within complex operational or production environments.
- Proven success embedding Lean culture, behaviours, and continuous improvement practices across organisations.
- Strong experience implementing Lean Business Systems or Lean Operating Systems.
- Experience with Strategy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri), Value Stream Mapping, A3 Thinking, TWI, and other Lean methodologies.
- Experience coaching, influencing, and developing leaders at all levels of an organisation.
- Experience working across multiple locations, countries, and cultures.
- Ports, terminals, logistics, manufacturing, or other operationally intensive industry experience would be highly advantageous.
- Postgraduate qualification such as an MBA or Transformation Management qualification would be advantageous but is not essential.
- Formal Lean qualifications would be advantageous.
- Additional European language skills would be advantageous.
Skills
- Strong understanding of Lean principles, methodologies, and business system deployment.
- Proven experience developing and implementing Lean coaching and capability-building strategies within complex organisations.
- Strong coaching, mentoring, and training skills, with the ability to develop leaders and teams at all levels.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change without direct authority.
- Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish credibility across diverse functions, geographies, and cultures.
- Experience implementing Lean methodologies across multiple countries within a large international organisation.
- Strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Results-focused with a track record of delivering sustainable operational and business improvements.
- Energetic self-starter who thrives on the challenge of implementing and embedding world-class business systems.
- Highly motivated and comfortable operating independently within a matrix environment.
- Adaptable and resilient, with the ability to lead through change in fast-paced and evolving operational settings.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Collaborative approach with the ability to build high-performing networks and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Location
- London Victoria
- Europe Travel Required
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience
- Postgraduate qualification such as an MBA or Transformation Management qualification
Salary/Compensations
- Market competitive compensation package
About the Company
- Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world.
- DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.
- With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 111,000 employees from 159 nationalities, spanning 77 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future.
- We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses - Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology - and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
- The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.
- WE MAKE TRADE FLOW TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.