Operational Excellence Manager Service

Operational Excellence Manager Service

Location: Brussels (at least 3 days in the office)

Hours per week: 40 hours

Contract: long term freelance contract by mutual starting date

We ARE Renewables is looking for an Operational Excellence Manager Service of a major organization in the Belgian energy sector.

As Operational Excellence Manager, you will build and lead the GD Center of Excellence and turn their ambition into a structured plan that makes our teams faster, sharper and more satisfied in their work.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the roadmap: partner with the GD Core Team to turn the strategic roadmap into a structural operational excellence plan, and make it happen.
• Steer priorities: drive the quarterly planning and reprioritization cycle and coordinate resource planning across GD teams.
• Make performance visible: define the KPIs, launch a monthly GD dashboard and run the operational dialogue where data turns into actions and decisions.
• Bring structure to key documents: design a document management system for key GD documents, from a System Planning pilot (end 2027) to a GD-wide roll-out, so decisions are traceable and reporting is transparent.
• Unlock efficiency: embed a continuous improvement framework that identifies, evaluates and implements improvements in processes, tools and ways of working, and measures their impact on efficiency and quality.
• Build the Center of Excellence: set up the GD Center of Excellence with shared guidelines, tools and best practices, and align the PMOs within GD to avoid redundancy.
• Deliver: lead specific GD projects from idea to implementation, and make sure the changes stick.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in engineering (civil, commercial, …) or economics, or have equivalent experience;
• 4+ years of experience in operational excellence, including defining KPIs, building dashboards (e.g. Power BI), optimizing processes and managing documents;
• Have knowledge of the energy sector;
• Engage stakeholders inside and outside GD and help teams succeed rather than pushing your own agenda;
• You work autonomously and flexibly, set the right priorities, make decisions and communicate clearly with management;
• You are a hands-on doer with a get-things-done attitude: you roll up your sleeves, turn plans into concrete actions and deliver tangible results, even when not everything is perfectly defined;
• You are assertive and an excellent communicator, with a good knowledge of English and fluency in French or Dutch (and at least a good understanding of the other).