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Operations Excellence Project Manager
Are you ready for a leading role in Logistics working across Distribution Centres in 10 countries?
If you identify as a manager with high ambition and exceptional leadership skills, you might be the Operations Excellence Project Manager we are looking for!
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
At JYSK, employees are the key to success. Growing from one store in 1979 to more than 3,600 stores worldwide today, JYSK is a true retail success story. JYSK has distribution centres across Europe covering their markets - stores and online – as efficiently as possible.
That is why JYSK strive to offer development and career opportunities. JYSK takes pride in rewarding engagement and recognizing great effort among its employees.
The three fundamental JYSK Values – Tradesman, Colleague and Corporate Spirit – express the behavior and attitude you can expect from your new colleagues.
At JYSK, colleagues trust each other, and believe in delegation and freedom with responsibility.
You are expected to speak up and have a say in your working environment.
WHAT YOUR NEW JOB WILL BE ABOUT
As a Operations Excellence Project Manager, you play an important role in meeting JYSK’s strategic target and ensuring that your team works well together and delivers high quality work on time.
Your main responsibility will be to:
- Strive towards operational excellence at SDCs(stores), CDCs(online) and forwarded DCs
- Identify and develop best practices in operations across the DCs, and ensure that these best practices are implemented across all DCs
- Implement and develop continuous improvement culture in operations across DCs
- Co-operate with stakeholders to ensure that selected projects are launched and implemented
- Develop and communicate concepts, policies, rules and guide-lines in a simple way in writing and verbally
You will be part of the Logistics Operations Excellence team. Consequently, you will contribute to the ongoing development of the logistics function at JYSK with a ‘customer first’ mentality.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
Besides successful and relevant logistics experience from hands on operations, preferably within retail/FMCG, we are looking for ambition and exceptional leadership skills. If you bring dedication, you will meet possibilities.
You also need to align with JYSK Values; Tradesman, Colleague and Corporate Spirit and Leadership; Leader, Coach and Communicator. The ambition to work with people and ensure their development to develop even better teams is crucial.
In addition, you will be described by the below mentioned characteristics:
- The drive to deliver outstanding results and continually strive to raise the bar on both quality, efficiency and performance.
- Willingness to take a pragmatic, hands-on approach
- A continuous improvement mindset continually challenging the state of things, to constantly improve systems, procedures and processes.
- An ability to make independent decisions in a busy working day and act decisively on complex situations.
- An ability to adapt quickly to new situations, and you enjoy a varied working day.
- Excellent collaboration skills, the ability to communicate at multiple levels and build good relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally.
- Good English skills and be able to travel 50-80 days a year
IS THIS YOUR NEXT OPPORTUNITY? Apply today!
For any advice or support, email us at HGR@JYSK.com and we’ll be happy to help!
Recruitment process:
We process applications on an ongoing basis and complete the recruitment when we have found the right candidate. We always hold interviews – and for selected positions you can expect to have assessments and/or a video interview, where we look forward to hearing about your motivation for the job.
ABOUT US
JYSK wants to include everyone, no matter the age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and experience. Together, we secure our inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. Because a great mix of minds, talents and unique personalities makes us a stronger team.
For more information, please visit our career page
To help us review applications fairly and efficiently, we use a system that automatically checks and decides how well each application matches the role.
This system looks at your answers to a few screening questions. These questions were created by the system and reviewed by the JYSK Talent Acquisition team, and each question and answer have a certain value. Based on your answers, the system ranks all candidates to give us an idea of how closely the job fits your profile.
This helps us manage all applications and make sure everyone is treated equally. The result from the system decides if your application moves forward to the next step. But don’t worry — the final decision is always made by a person.
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