At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 17 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: GreenChef, EveryPlate, Chef's Plate, Factor, and Youfoodz.

Creating our broader operational excellence strategy for our production teams, that is your main focus as Team Lead within HelloFresh.

You have the ability to lead a team of analysts and shop floor colleagues, and use your experience in designing and applying operational processes optimization frameworks (Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, TPM and other process modeling/ re-engineering tools). Ideally you have some experience in a manufacturing environment and both English (must have) and Dutch (nice to have) communication skills.

Are you interested in a challenging job within the heart of our company? Do you have experience in managing teams, work on continuous improvements and have experience in a logistics/distribution environment? Then apply today!

Your opportunityFor our ambitious, fast growing team in Bleiswijk (near Zoetermeer), we are looking for an Operational Excellence Team Lead Production. Working in the Production team you take a leading role in raising our operational excellence capabilities at our distribution centers.

As an Operational Excellence Team Lead Production, your focus will be on creating our broader operational excellence strategy together with our central operational excellence team and cascade this into our distribution centers.

Furthermore you will focus on training and developing operational excellence analysts and shop floor personnel. Secondly you will work of course on improvement opportunities, focussed on error and cost reduction, and process improvements.

You’ll be working on both leading a team of talented people and work on optimizing the improvement framework:

Leadership & collaboration

• Lead the production operational excellence team and enable them with your experience and knowledge of lean, six sigma and other methodologies;
• Help create and oversee the production operational excellence roadmap and prioritization in close collaboration with the central operational excellence teams;
• Collaborate with the operational excellence team from Amsterdam in developing internal tools and taking ownership of our operational excellence training curriculum;
• Promote a learning and continuous improvement culture for our shop floor and office personnel.

Improvement of current and future processes

• Lead process standardization across sites and determine highest value process improvement opportunities through process mapping, and formulate plans to materialize such opportunities;
• Deliver quality, efficiency, and capacity performance targets across multiple sites through operational excellence initiatives, while ensuring a safe work environment;
• Lead incident assessments and facilitate root cause analysis in order to prevent issues from reoccurring.

What you’ll bring to the team

As our Team Lead you are a strong communicator and know how to set up and finish mid-to-large projects successfully, and how to create support with stakeholders reaching consequences. You solve problems on-the-go in a fast-paced environment.

Besides these qualities, you have the following skills on paper:

• 5+ years relevant experience in Operational Excellence (or similar disciplines) or Supply Chain Management (preferably acquired in a consultancy environment);
• Experience in Manufacturing Operations, Quality Operations and/ or Technical Operations is a plus;
• Experience in designing and applying operational processes optimization frameworks such as Lean Management, Six Sigma, Kaizen, TPM and other process modeling/ re-engineering tools;
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating improvement workshops and roots cause analysis events;
• A certified Black Belt is a strong plus;
• Fluent in English. Dutch is a plus.

As a team lead you also have the following qualities:

• Strong business sense and experience in managing stakeholders across different levels. Also it would be great if you have plenty of experience of engaging with shop floor personnel to C-Level;
• Superior data analysis and problem-solving skills (incl. data crunching / process analysis);
• You don’t shy away from a challenge and are able to perform in a fast-paced and continuously changing work environment. You’re pro-active, ambitious, and make things happen.

What we offer

• Make a serious impact on transforming our processes and directly improving the the service levels for our customers;
• Freedom of idea and initiative, execution and implementation of your own ideas;
• The opportunity to engage and collaborate with our colleagues across the globe;
• Learning and development opportunities including a personal development budget;
• 24 holidays per year, plus 1 day per additional year of work;
• Flexibility to work abroad;
• A discount on your weekly HelloFresh box;
• Our FreshEnergy program including bootcamp, yoga, boxing, Headspace subscription, a collaboration with OpenUp for your mental wellbeing, webinars and other events;
• Healthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office;
• Discounted health insurance with Zilveren Kruis;
• Reimbursement of travel expenses to the office ;
• Monthly pension scheme;
• An amazing team and office in Bleiswijk check it out here

You’re hungry for more?

Nice, we got you covered! Please apply now below with your resume in English. In terms of motivation for this role, we would love for you to answer the following motivational questions in a brief and clear matter:

• Why would you like to work at HelloFresh? What attracts you to our company?
• Why do you want to fill this position within our operations department?
• What characterizes you as a team leader and someone who gets excited about continuous improvements, and why?

Recruitment process

Our recruitment process at HelloFresh explained:

• Step 1: If we see a match after the cv selection, you’ll have a (video) call with one of our recruiters to share more about what you can bring to the team and we ask for current notice period and salary expectations;
• Step 2: Are both sides still positive? Next up is an in person interview with the hiring team to get to know you better and dive into more detail of your skills and how you are going to make an impact;
• Final Step: Lastly you’ll have a conversation with C-level.

We will schedule the (online) interviews as quickly as possible, to make sure you'll know as fast as possible if you can start at HelloFresh!

About HelloFresh

We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!

At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.

We want to adapt our processes and create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate our process. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with us in the application form.

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