Global Business Process Expert (m/f/d) - Manufacturing Control

Join Canon Production Printing as a Global Business Process Expert – Manufacturing Control

What you’ll do

As a global business process expert, you fulfill a central role and are in close contact with many stakeholders throughout the organization. In this role, you maintain and improve system-controlled processes in the area of production planning and material management to guide and support the Manufacturing departments across the different CPP organizations. Continuous improvement by business automation of these processes is also a key area of your interest; you are always looking for opportunities for further process automation.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide support to the functional organization to solve operational issues in existing processes and systems, such as SAP and TeamCenter-UA.
• Analyze existing (system controlled) manufacturing processes and define improvements to further develop the maturity level of these processes, focusing on standardization, harmonization across different departments, and efficiency increase.
• Lead projects to establish new (system supported) processes in the area of manufacturing, acting as a change agent throughout the organization.
• Support the implementation of the Manufacturing & Logistics IT and digitalization strategy and roadmap in your domain.
• Specifically lead the business preparation for the upcoming transition towards SAP S4HANA system in the domain of Manufacturing, followed by leading the business transition to S4HANA, defining new processes with a focus on standardization and harmonization.
• Pro-actively manage your global and local stakeholders, such as functional department managers, key users in the Production Planning and Material Management domain, IT developers, and others.
• Act as a back-up for other Global Business Process Experts.

Who you’ll work with

You will be part of the Operational Excellence Department in a team of Global Business Process Experts and Program Managers. In your day-to-day work, you will collaborate with colleagues from your department as well as from other departments at different sites, including Global Business Process Experts, Program Managers, Manufacturing Managers, Warehouse Managers, Industrial Engineers, SAP Key Users, IT specialists, Controlling, and many others.

What you bring

We are looking for someone with an energetic drive and strong communication skills. You have a strong affinity with ERP and other IT systems, and continuously improving processes and systems gives you energy. At the same time, you are interested in keeping existing business processes running by providing support as the process expert. You recognize improvement opportunities, develop best practice solutions, implement these in the systems, and are able to roll out these improvements across different departments and sites.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor or Master degree in a related field
• Proven experience in the control of (ERP steered) manufacturing-related processes in an international environment
• Knowledge and proven experience with control of manufacturing processes in SAP S4HANA
• Experience with leading multi-disciplinary project teams and the ability to cooperate with, listen to, and convince different stakeholders throughout the organization
• Result-driven change agent with proven experience managing change in a complex international organization
• Excellent command of spoken and written English; German and Dutch are a plus
• Willing and able to travel occasionally, mainly between the different manufacturing and logistics sites (Poing & Venlo)

What do we offer you?

• A challenging, interesting, and responsible role in a future-oriented and internationally active company
• A working environment in which you can contribute your experience and personality
• Attractive remuneration, a flexible working time model, and other social benefits of a large company, such as a company pension scheme and work-life balance
• 30 days' vacation
• Bicycle leasing
• Discounted local transport ticket
• Individual development prospects and further training opportunities
• A team that is looking forward to your reinforcement

For further information about this position, please contact Fabian Frühholz: e-mail: fabian.fruehholz@cpp.canon

What do we stand for?

We develop and manufacture high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market as part of Canon, a global leader in imaging technologies. With around 3,300 employees across three continents and our headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, we innovate to create high-quality solutions that add color to the world. Guided by the philosophy of Kyosei—living and working together for the common good—our culture is built on openness, collegiality, trust, and stability. We empower our people to grow, take initiative, and make an impact.

With our company values of collaboration, innovation, and ownership, we strive to bring out the best in each other, expand boundaries, and feel empowered to take ownership of our work.