BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ANALYST REQUIRED
UNITED EMIRATES BASED
EXCELLENT EXPAT SALARY ON OFFER
Our client is a very impressive UAE-based, established high-tech horticultural business. They develop and operate high-tech, climate-controlled farms to grow a variety of crops and sell directly into the markets in which they operate. Their produce is selling out at major retailers in the UAE and are consumed at an assortment of elite restaurants & hotels. Their brand is associated with incredibly tasty produce and they have built a loyal and vocal customer base. Expansion wise now they are venturing into new cropping (fruit) and into new geographies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait). Technology, data, and innovation are core to their ethos, and they aim to redefine the Middle Eastern agricultural sector. They are hugely passionate about what they do, and are believers in the growth potential of the company. The team is multi-cultural (American, European, African, Middle Eastern, South Asian), and backgrounds diverse (horticulture, engineering, private equity, management consulting, retail, marketing, etc.).
Due to their ongoing expansion, they now wish to source a key individual as Business Improvement Analyst to join with them and share in their success as they grow.
Main Aspects of the Role:
- Help to define business problems via in-depth investigation and gathering of technical and non-technical information.
- Own KPI’s and performance management in the operations organisation
- Ensure timely reporting of all operational metrics
- Modelling business processes and identifying opportunities for process improvements
- Identifying issues, risks and benefits of existing and proposed solutions and outlining business impacts
- Creating functional specifications for solutions
- Estimating costs and identifying business savings
- Simplifying information and deciphering technical jargon so it is easily understood by the whole team
- Implementing and testing of solutions
- Supporting business transition and helping to establish change
- Drive operational excellence and process improvements within the Company
- Develop and implement business processes wherever applicable to make the organisation run more efficiently
- Ensure all processes and SOPs are well documented and stored in one location
- Drive a culture of continuous improvements in the organisation
- Identify and drive cost saving initiatives
- Execute on the customer promise
- Own the definition of quality and manage quality actively with a well‐defined customer complaint process
- Support in special projects, such as strategic procurement, cost saving projects and other projects
- Travel to the company’s operations internationally, as required
Comprehensive data collection and drive regular reporting and PMO improvement plans
- Ensure the data collection is comprehensive across all the locations and across all topics (such as
- water, electricity etc.)
- Design and drive preparation of material for regular reporting of data (e.g., MOR, weekly
- performance report, daily bonus report etc.)
- Drive and PMO improvement plans across all our sites
Drive efficiency improvement related projects on ground
- Identify areas of efficiency improvement across packing and harvesting and drive them
Drive operations excellence and process improvement
- Ensure all processes and SOPs are well documented in one place
- Drive culture of continuous improvement through setting up process and meetings
- Focus on 5s projects, process improvement etc.
Support in special projects when required and travel to company’s operations if required
- Oversee the customer service executive to facilitate the smooth communication
- Oversee sales and operations planning
Drive continuous improvement across the Supply Chain
- Support the development and approval of the business strategy
- Conduct market, competitors’ and other relevant analysis to inform the strategy definition
- Support the preparation and monitoring / execution of the Strategy implementation initiatives
- Support the development and implementation of new Business / Corporate development projects
- Supporting the assessment of operational and financial performances
- Monitoring continuously and analyzing the external business environment (e.g., industry analysis,
- macroeconomic trends etc.) to help developing new growth initiatives for the existing portfolio
- companies and identifying new ventures
What We Want to See From You:
- Effective stakeholder engagement – ability to deal with stakeholders at all levels of an organisation right up to the CEO
- Critical thinking – The ability to understand and analyze problems and find solutions
- Problem solving – The ability to think creatively and work collaboratively with teams to solve business challenges
- Decision making – The ability to make decisions around things such as requirement prioritisation, scope, assessing viability of solutions etc
- Good listener & communicator- The ability to ask the right questions and correctly understand the information received is essential
- Documentation and writing skills – The ability to create documents such as use cases and business requirement documents
- Confident presenter – The ability to present findings and recommendations to senior leaders and to manage stakeholder meetings
Your Background:
- Proven work experience as a Business Improvement Analyst in a similar industry
- Degree in Business, IT or Finance. MBA desirable.
- Knowledge of organisational effectiveness and operations management
- Experience budgeting and forecasting
- Familiarity with business and financial principles
- Outstanding organisational skills
What’s On Offer:
An excellent ex-pat package is on offer plus significant benefits for the right candidate.
Unique roles require unique people. If this role if of direct interest to you, please apply via this website or call Max MacGillivray on +44 (0) 1284 715055 quoting Ref: 05580M
