About the job
As an Operational Excellence Specialist at Nationaal Warmtefonds, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating results by leveraging Lean Six Sigma and Agile methodologies. Your analytical skills and improvement proposals, combined with your ability to structure processes and facilitate teamwork, will contribute to our shared mission: making sustainability accessible for everyone who owns a home. This position requires a commitment of at least 32 hours per week and will be carried out in a hybrid setting, combining work at our Hilversum location with remote work.
Your Responsibilities
Utilizing your Lean Six Sigma and Agile expertise, you will take charge of specific improvement initiatives while also empowering others to achieve their objectives.
You will foster a culture of continuous improvement and ensure that changes are sustainably integrated into the organization. This includes organizing and facilitating quarterly meetings, team sessions, performance dialogues, and other gatherings that guide organizational impact. Additionally, you will identify bottlenecks, prioritize them based on customer value and organizational goals, and implement significant tactical change initiatives.
The strength of this role lies in your agility to make an impact at various levels and in different ways, providing you the opportunity to significantly contribute to the growth of Nationaal Warmtefonds and the sustainability efforts in the Netherlands.
Your Key Tasks Include:
- Connecting Agile methodologies with the overarching goals and KPIs of Nationaal Warmtefonds, facilitating and guiding teams in prioritizing and scoping projects aligned with organizational objectives.
- Facilitating workshops and team gatherings (e.g., retrospectives, quarterly reviews) while coaching teams in result-oriented, data-driven practices, Agile skills, behavior, and the design and use of the Obeya.
- Conducting and guiding improvement projects based on Lean and Agile methodologies, with varying roles from facilitation and coaching to conducting analyses and providing advice, as well as taking the lead on improvement initiatives as needed.