Enterprise Excellence Principal

Enterprise Excellence Business Partner

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Salary – 55,440 – 80,000 per annum (dependent on relevant experience / qualifications)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role

As an Enterprise Excellence Business Partner, you will be accountable for delivering Excellence across the Business aligning and supporting strategic business goals as well as local improvement priorities, resulting in improved mission success as well as workforce engagement through cultural change.

You will be an enabler of change to support the delivery of the AWE vision and mission through the effective co-ordination of a transformation program of activity focussed around process improvement principles and methodologies. Working with senior leaders in the business this will include the provision of facilitation support, coaching and expertise to the organisation on improvement activities and its deployment.

Successful Candidates will be responsible for:

• Scoping, building and overseeing the delivery of strategic and local transformation roadmaps and programmes.
• Establishing relationships, offering leadership and managing stakeholders across the business for senior leaders
• Managing the effective delivery of the roadmap, identifying and mitigating risk factors and communicating with key stakeholders
• Ensuring a change in culture, behaviours and performance through overseeing the embedding of continuous improvement technical tools and methodologies.
• Delivery of group or 1-2-1 training, workshop facilitation and coaching
• Coaching and facilitating lean methodology across the Business, enabling transformation and realising desired efficiencies and performance

Some reasons we think you’ll love it here

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave – 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave – 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

Who are we looking for?

We need you to have the following:

• Degree level qualification in a relevant subject and/or a suitable vocational qualification (HND or equivalent) and extensive experience in leading Operational Excellence/ Continuous Improvement transformation programmes
• Track record of realising sustained benefits and cultural change
• Experience of cross business improvement facilitation and coaching of process improvement techniques.
• Technical and coaching experience of core continuous improvement tools and frameworks
• Experience in coaching and mentoring at all levels from senior leaders through to front line teams

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point below, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we’d like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Experience in building strong relationships and a collaborative approach with key stakeholders across the business
• Keeping abreast of developing and changing business strategy to ensure informed and relevant decision making
• Experience in delivering strategic and tactical change
• Experience of developing, analysing and interpreting data.
• Experienced negotiator with excellent facilitation, presentation, and communication skills.

You’ll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.

Due to the classified nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site at AWE Aldermaston.