Innovation Manager

Main tasks:
- Innovation Department helps drive the development and execution of company programs supporting the successful GS25 enterprise strategy, business performance, and operational outcomes. Team members will identify, design and execute opportunities that address gaps in competencies and tactics to deploy consistent, systematic methodology to drive performance acceleration across the company. Furthermore, Team members work to redesign end-to-end processes and deployment of the lean system to macro processes or business areas such as Operation, Merchandising, Logistics, and other Business Support depts. The department is responsible for creating an environment that promotes continuous improvement of business processes, increased analytical rigor, higher consistency, and standardization;
- Propose and Lead the Improvement & Innovation program;
- Provides project leadership, mentors the team members, and provides training of the selected Continuous improvement framework;
- To develop organizational effectiveness by transforming the business process;
- To deliver process improvements, identifying and deploying analytics & optimization, sharing operational excellence practices and trainings across the organization;
- Support in reaching objectives by deploying appropriate tools and methods (eg Class A / Lean Retailing / Six Sigma/ Business Transformation or propose the suitable framework);
- Ensure process delivery is performed consistently and effectively according to established procedures, processes, guidelines and/or best practices;
- Work closely with others departments to identify the pain-points, and opportunities for improvement, plus leverage the Lean Retailing methodology to drive the improvement;
- Use Basic and Advanced Lean Management tools, in order to eliminate waste and improve the flow from current processes, generating financial savings and also higher result.
Others:
- Co-operate and able to work with multi-departments or external sides which involve accounting to develop the Business;
- Others task assigned by head of dept.