Manager Business Process Excellence / Project Manager - Idea to Market / Research and Development | EMEA Hub (m/f/d)

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In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

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Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application silence of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

Apply now! It takes less than 10 minutes. This function offers you the chance to work on one of ZEISS' key group programs and to drive harmonisation and standardization of processes and structures that define the way how ZEISS will work for years to come. In detail... You will take responsibility to achieve the best solution for ZEISS, balancing functional and segment needs by contributing to the Idea to Market process workstream

Together with the Senior Manager of your stream, you will take on a moderate role, understanding and mastering the individual processes, in order to moderate between the ZEISS functions and process experts in a goal- manner oriented

Together, you will steer and orchestrate necessary external consulting support within your workstream

In addition, you will exchange information with your fellow workstream teams to ensure best practice sharing and integration into related processes and report your results to the overall program management

You own the alignment of your workstream progress with the senior manager of your stream, ensure planning, implementation and improvement measures of your workstream and thus make a significant contribution to the overall success project

a bachelor's degree in Mechanical / Industrial / Chemical Engineering, in a natural science discipline or in a similar field of study

proven driving projects in the area of business process excellence or in a similar performance related environment

SAP specific experience in managing R&D processes, from the development of new products through their market introduction and eventual phase-out

experience with SAP ERP transformations is a big plus

results-oriented, analytical and organizational skills paired with strong change communications skills to develop and successfully implement strategic plans

a strong change management perspective

fluent in English and German