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Business Improvement Manager

Flexible - Midlands / North West , gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Support regional leadership in initiating, completing, and implementing improvement initiatives across warehouse and transport operations to impact quality, cost, service, and safety.

Role type

Senior operational improvement manager (warehouse/transport)

Builds

Operational improvement projects and change initiatives for regional leadership teams

Domain

Logistics, warehousing, and transport operations

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Project management, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, 5S, 7 Wastes, TPM, Quality tools, FMEA, DMAIC, complex analysis, audit execution, MS Office suite, warehouse/transport management systems

Preferred skills

Lean Six Sigma training capability, stakeholder influence, best practice facilitation

Technologies

Business Central, warehouse/transport management systems

Responsibilities

Coordinate with site senior leadership to identify improvement opportunities; deliver improvement initiative objectives and timescales; produce operational improvement strategy proposals; ensure sites maintain traction on identified projects; quantify and validate savings with Finance; conduct in-depth analysis of performance trends; support operational improvement implementation with coaching; utilize IT expertise for new ways of working; measure potential and delivered benefits of proposals; provide regular progress updates; conduct audits against minimum standards.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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