Sr Manager - LEAN Transformation Partner

About the role

Job Description Are you motivated by enabling leaders to operate differently and transforming how a global engineering organisation delivers performance? This is a unique opportunity to act as a LEAN Transformation Partner, working closely with senior leaders across Engineering & Workplace - including Manufacturing Design & Implementation (MD&I) - to embed the Engineering Management System as a living way of working. The Management System - comprising leadership routines, governance, and performance practices that drive alignment and execution - is a core part of how Engineering & Workplace translates strategy into delivery. In this role, you will operate where strategy, system design, and operational reality meet - ensuring that ways of working are not only defined, but actively applied and sustained within a core delivery environment. The role requires someone who combines strong transformation capability with practical operational experience - able to engage from the shopfloor to senior leadership, ensuring that change is both strategically aligned and grounded in real delivery environments, strengthening accountability, and embedding sustainable behaviours across a complex, global organisation In this context, LEAN goes beyond tools and methodologies - it represents a management and leadership approach that integrates performance, problem-solving, and continuous improvement into how the organisation operates every day. Core Responsibilities: Enable Leadership to Operate Through the Engineering Management System Partner with leaders to embed management routines, governance, and behaviours - ensuring the system is actively used to drive alignment, decision-making, and performance Apply the Management System in a Delivery Environment Translate the Engineering Management System into practical ways of working within MD&I, ensuring it is effectively applied to support delivery, scalability, and performance Drive System-Level Performance and Improvement Work with leaders to identify and address systemic performance gaps across value streams and functions, using performance insights & structured problem-solving where appropriate, to identify gaps, unlock opportunities while ensuring delivered solutions are sustained through leadership routines and behaviours Translate Strategy into Operating Reality Support leaders in turning strategic priorities into clear objectives, meaningful success measures, and disciplined performance follow-up across the organisation Strengthen Leadership Capability and Accountability Coach and challenge leaders to adopt a strong performance mindset - enabling them to prioritise effectively, manage trade-offs, and lead improvement through their teams Act as a Trusted Transformation Partner Influence across functions, sites, and leadership levels without formal authority, building alignment and reinforcing a strong ONE TEAM approach Bring Operational Insight and Credibility Apply hands-on experience from engineering or operational environments to ensure transformation efforts are grounded in real delivery challenges and practical application Embed Sustainable Change Ensure improvements are not one-off initiatives, but are anchored in leadership behaviour, routines, and system-wide ways of working Play your part in our team succeeding You will play a key role in transforming how Engineering & Workplace delivers as one integrated system. Partnering closely with Manufacturing Design & Implementation (MD&I) - a function responsible for designing, developing, and implementing engineering solutions across moulding, automated warehousing, and logistics systems - you will operate in a delivery-intensive environment requiring a deep understanding of end-to-end operations and the scaling of solutions across sites. In this role, you will act as a critical bridge between how the organisation is designed to operate and how work is actually executed - ensuring that management systems and leadership behaviours are effectively applied in day-to-day operations. You will enable consistent ways of working across regions, functions, and value streams - strengthening performance, transparency, and collaboration across Engineering & Workplace. This is a high-impact role for someone comfortable operating at system level, while maintaining the credibility to engage directly with operational realities. Do you have what it takes? Proven experience driving transformation and operational excellence within complex engineering, manufacturing, or technical environments Strong ability to influence and coach senior leaders, driving behavioural and performance change Demonstrated experience in applying LEAN principles & delivering improvement projects within operational environments, combined with the ability to elevate these into leadership practices and system-level improvements Strong track record of connecting strategy, performance, and execution Experience working with management systems, gover