Consulting Director - Lean Process Optimisation
Datacom, New Zealand
Job Description
Overview
Digital technology is transforming our client’s businesses and reshaping operations across every industry vertical. Retailers are embracing omni-channel commerce, bots and artificial intelligence are reshaping customer experiences, and the internet of things is streamlining manufacturing and logistics operations. In order to adapt to these exciting new technologies, organisations are developing new digital strategies and aligning their people capabilities and business processes. Datacom’s Strategic Advisory team is at the forefront of this change, guiding them through every step of the journey with strategy, insights and frameworks for change.
Join the Datacom Strategic Advisory team and play a crucial role in leading large enterprise organisations through their transformation journey. As a Consulting Director specialising in our Lean Process Optimisation practice, you will be working closely with customers to help them embrace lean value stream approaches to support the rollout of new transformation projects. You will be combining proven consulting frameworks with your wealth of experience and expertise to provide pragmatic consulting, coaching and workshop services that get tangible results. Once complete, you will have the satisfaction of overseeing Datacom’s technical delivery teams as they action your strategy and bring it to life through delivery of technology solutions.
Skills and Experience
You will need to be people-centric, working closely with our customers’ key business and technology stakeholders to lead and advise them through their review of organisational workflows and processes. As a seasoned practitioner in lean process optimisation, you will be passionate about your area of expertise and adept at helping people to uncover waste and optimise the flow of value when designing transformative change projects. You will also be a thought leader both internally and externally, regularly presenting at events, blogging and posting on social media.
Key skills:
· Deep expertise and passion in lean process improvement.
· Experience in consulting or professional services.
· Confident applying proven advisory frameworks and a process-driven approach to assessing and guiding customers through organisational and cultural change.
· An ability to translate desired strategic/business outcomes into actionable roadmap of activity and to present these to customers.
· Excellent listening, communication and facilitation skills to be able to work effectively across both the customers’ business and IT teams.
· The ability to present thought leadership subjects to large audiences in an engaging and insightful way.
· A track record of delivering transformation programmes and projects in leading roles.
· A team player who enjoys working within a team of multi-disciplined consultants who are committed to helping our customers via the delivery of high value strategy and consulting engagements.
Culture and Benefits
Datacom is New Zealand's largest supplier of Information Technology professional services. As a New Zealand-owned company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small-business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
At Datacom you'll be recognised and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide stability, career opportunity and a collegial, agile, flat-structured environment that
empowers people and promotes autonomy. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as fresh fruit, chill-out spaces, a gaming zone, remote working, flexi-hours, professional development courses and health insurance to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help NZ’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.