Continuous Improvement Expert

Are you ready to apply your skills at OSE-listed Stolt-Nielsen, a global leader in liquid logistics?
We are looking for a Continuous Improvement (CI) Expert to join our team. If you are passionate about optimizing processes, achieving operational excellence, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, we’d love to hear from you.
In this role, you will lead a range of projects focused on Stolt Tankers ensuring the safe, reliable, and high-quality delivery of global transportation services.

Stolt Tankers is a division of Stolt-Nielsen, a market leader in logistics and the distribution of bulk liquids. Stolt-Nielsen has three global bulk liquid and chemicals logistics businesses: Stolt Tankers, Stolthaven Terminals and Stolt Tank Containers. Stolt-Nielsen also cultivates value through a range of adjacent investments. Stolt-Nielsen Limited is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

In this role, you will drive improvement initiatives across departments, support the successful local implementation of global projects, coach colleagues in CI and lean practices, manage CI activities, and report on KPIs and progress. You will play a key role across the organization by standardizing, improving, and redesigning processes. In this role, you will lead impactful CI projects while training and coaching employees and senior leaders to strengthen the CI mindset and adoption of improvement methods. As a change professional, you will also support transformation initiatives, helping the organization achieve its operational excellence ambitions.

• Lead initiatives with the goal of optimizing the total value chain beyond Stolt boundaries, together with suppliers and customers.
• Lead initiatives to review, standardize, improve, and redesign processes with a focus to make improvements and achieve standardisation.
• Implement Strategic Management, including training and coaching of (senior) leaders.
• Implement Daily (Performance) Management in cross functional process teams and hierarchical teams and departments including training and coaching of the team.
• Implement commercial management on a strategic level and daily management including training & coaching of the employees and leaders
• Training (up to green belt level) and coaching of employees, team leaders, middle managers and senior leaders in all aspects of the CI methodology and CI leadership.
• Coaching of project participants.
• Provide (on request and proactively) feedback to employees and (senior) managers with regard to the execution of CI related activities, CI related behaviours and CI related leadership style.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree.
• A minimum of 5 years’ working experience.
• Lean/Six sigma Green Belt Certified is a must to have.
• Analytically strong and a fast thinker.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Ability to thrive in complex environments and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

• We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package, including a 13th month.
• The position is based at our headquarters in Rotterdam.
• Traveling to other offices (Houston, Singapore, and Manila) might at times be necessary.
• Regarding the recruiment process: complete the online application form and send it to us along with your CV.
• Interview Process: will include two interviews, personality test and possibly case study analysis.