Requirements: English
Company: WhatJobs
Region: Geneva , Geneva
Main Purpose:
The role could include any number of potential projects in the operational space in the longer run, focusing on internal processes to identify areas of inefficiency and assist in bringing together stakeholders across departments to streamline the approach without introducing additional operational risk.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experience in running process improvement and/or cost reduction initiatives, either in consulting or in-house
- Familiarity with commodities industry preferred
- Experience with IT projects and budgets, including evaluating business cases and cost/benefit analyses
- Analytical skills to analyze organizational spend and identify inefficiencies
- Knowledge of methodologies like zero-based budgeting and spend analytics
- Ability to develop metrics to assess operational workload and efficiency
- Understanding of transformational projects like digitization and their value realization
- Minimum 10+ years of hands-on work experience required with a detail-oriented mindset
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze spend across the organization via appropriate slices (e.g., by department or business) to identify inefficiencies and support levels of cost
- Assist in establishing robust governance, tracking, and reporting mechanisms to monitor spend and progress against objectives
- Engage with the Executive Committee and key stakeholders, presenting analysis and recommendations to secure buy-in and demonstrate progress towards strategic objectives
- Employ methodologies such as zero-based budgeting and spend analytics to ensure appropriate spend levels, upskilling teams to embed a change in mindset
- Work with department heads to devise metrics to assess operational workload, monitor trends, and evaluate team efficiency
- Help develop broader narratives and forecasts for transformational projects like digitization, ensuring value is achieved and targeted processes are optimized
Competencies
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Project management and process improvement skills
- Stakeholder management and communication skills
- Strategic thinking and decision-making abilities
- Adaptability and ability to work across various industries
- Hands-on approach and willingness to engage in detailed work
Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Key Relationships
- Executive Committee
- Department heads
- Key stakeholders across departments
Reporting Structure
Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.
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