At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive process improvement and automation to enhance team productivity and engagement.
- Company: Cirium, a leader in aviation analytics transforming the industry.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, health benefits, learning resources, and employee discounts.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team focused on continuous improvement and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on operational excellence and help teams thrive.
- Qualifications: Experience in process improvement and automation; strong judgement and curiosity.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Are you motivated to continuously improve how a business operates and passionate about coaching others about this? Do you have proven expertise in the impactful use of process excellence to deliver measurable outcomes? Are you someone experienced in partnering to build automation pipelines and are you relentlessly curious about how technology and tools can drive better outcomes for how teams create value?
About the Business
At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more to accelerate their own digital transformation.
About the Team
This role joins a fast-paced Chief of Staff team with a mandate to improve how teams perform and drive employee engagement across a 500 strong global business.
About the Role
This role is accountable for driving operational excellence and tangible, measurable progress by identifying and delivering process improvement that enables our teams’ productivity, removes low value work and supports continuous improvement. You will be accountable for driving excellence in how Cirium teams own, improve and continuously evolve their end-to-end processes, enabling our internal teams to increase the amount of time they are able to spend on high-value, high impact, customer outcome led work. This is a 12-month fixed term contract.
By the end of the contract, we would expect to see:
- Mature process documentation across our workstreams and functions
- Automation and AI applied selectively, with clear rationale and realised benefits
- Leaders able to articulate where value is lost in their processes and what is being done to address it
- A sustained shift towards continuous improvement as part of day-to-day work with productivity and margin gains
Working with our Cirium teams, you will focus on understanding how work flows across the business and where improvements can deliver the greatest value. You will apply structured process thinking while bringing clear, objective judgement to the use of automation and AI.
Responsibilities
- Mature Cirium’s process documentation and mapping and create, record and embed process documentation across Cirium
- Conduct workshops with key teams so they have clarity on their processes and are able to identify pain points and areas for improvement
- Partner with leaders to understand Cirium’s process architecture and deliver a simple view of our business
- Introduce and embed simple, repeatable improvement disciplines that teams can sustain themselves
- Establish a fact-based approach to deciding what should be automated, simplified, standardised or deliberately left manual and be active in supporting this work
- Operate as a credible peer and thought partner to senior leaders, helping translate ambition into practical progress
Requirements
- Experience in process improvement, operational excellence, transformation and change
- Practical understanding and experience of delivering automation and AI-enabled improvement
- Experience with six-sigma or similar continuous improvement methodologies
- Strong judgement and comfort making trade-offs in complex, ambiguous environments
- Curiosity, learning agility and a willingness to challenge established ways of working constructively
Benefits
Working for you: We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Optional Dental Insurance
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
- Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
- Access to extensive learning and development resources
- Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Process, Automation and Transformation Lead employer: RELX INC
Cirium is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee wellbeing and professional growth, offering a generous holiday allowance, comprehensive health benefits, and extensive learning resources. Our dynamic work culture fosters collaboration and innovation, empowering employees to drive meaningful change in the aviation industry while enjoying a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion.
