Job title – Head of Business Excellence

Location: Flexible – Home working with travel to offices and sites

Business Area: Utilities – Commercial

Contract & hours: Full-time, permanent position.

Salary: A competitive salary + £9000 per annum company car or allowance plus excellent L2

Kier Utilities have a new opportunity for a Head of Business Excellence to join the team. You will be responsible for the day-to-day aspects of developing and delivering the business excellence programme for the Kier Utilities business, aligned with best practices from across the Kier Group. The role will provide support and leadership to the Kier Utilities business, in developing and running the programme as well as reporting progress to the Kier Utilities Board.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a Strategic project plan, including key milestones and a critical path where necessary.
• Develop and maintain a Strategic plan around Performance Excellence and drive across the business to ensure compliance with group minimum standards
• Develop and maintain a PMO framework to manage identified workstreams and improvement projects.
• Act as the coordinator of the high-level Business Excellence Steering Group, managing RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions) logs etc.
• Act as the focal point for monthly progress reports on key tasks and actions involved in the Business Excellence programme.
• Work with cross-functional peers to align and improve across the organisation.
• Act as an ambassador for Quality and Continuous improvement across the business.

What do we need from you?

To be successful in the role you will have experience in:

• Working closely with senior executives to solve challenging business problems; Ability to credibly and compellingly present and debate recommendations with senior leadership
• Decomposing and solving real-world business problems and building/using advanced Excel models
• Building coalitions to execute and deliver objectives
• Working across the entire product value stream
• Continuous improvement and lean methodology and practice

At Kier, we’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

• New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
• A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
• A fantastic matched pension scheme
• Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.
• 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
• Kier’s Green Car Scheme

• A huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands
• And many many more!

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Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing .

Closing Date: 28/08/22

Please note, that interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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