Manager Business Process Excellence – Engineer to Order (f/m/x) in Oberkochen, Jena or Munich

Jobbeschreibung
Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

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  • This function offers you the chance to work in one of ZEISS' key group programs and to drive harmonization and standardization of processes and structures that define the way how ZEISS will work for years to come

  • Together with the senior manager of your stream, you will take on a moderating role, understanding and mastering the individual processes, in order to moderate between the ZEISS functions and process experts in a goal-oriented manner

  • Together, you will steer and orchestrate necessary external consulting support within your workstream

  • In addition, you will exchange information with all other end-to-end streams to ensure best practice sharing and integration into related processes and report your results to the overall program management

  • You own the alignment of your workstream progress with the senior manager of your stream, ensure planning, implementation and improvement measures of your workstream and thus make a significant contribution to the overall project success

  • You will take responsibility to achieve the best solution for ZEISS, balancing individual functional and segment needs by contributing to the Engineer-to-Order workstream


  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, industrial engineering or a similar field of study

  • Proven experience driving projects in the area of business process excellence or in a similar performance improvement related environment

  • Experience with SAP ERP or S/4 HANA transformation projects

  • Knowledge of the Engineer-to-Order process for tailored product business

  • Results-oriented, analytical and organizational skills paired with strong change communications skills to develop and successfully implement strategic plans

  • A strong change management perspective

  • Strong German and English skills, both written and spoken

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