Continuous Improvement Specialist

Continuous Improvement Specialist

As the largest jewellery brand in the world, we a give a voice to millions of people’s loves every day. Our beautiful products empower people all around the world to express themselves. We are proud to be part of their stories and the most important moments in their lives. 

Where original thinking is welcomed, and can turn into positive impact in a heartbeat, we can dream big, dare to act, and deliver with care and passion. At Pandora where you can each craft far more than just an incredible career. 

About the Team:
The Pandora Operations team has a mission to provide the fastest and most accurate level of service to all internal and external customers, while closely managing operating expenses and striving for continuous improvement across all areas.

This role is responsible for meeting customers’ requirements and ensuring operational excellence by helping to identify, champion, and implement process improvements through the use of strategic problem-solving and employee and process development.

Your Role as a Continuous Improvement Specialist:

• Identify capability gaps and prioritizes actions to close gaps
• Builds trust with operations teams through direct engagement and strong relationship building
• Champion change and strategic problem solving through influencing and building relationships with peers, business partners, and external stakeholders
• Applies quantitative and qualitative analyses to assess, monitor and evaluate performance of products to ensure inventory is placed optimally for picking productivity and order quality
• Develop operations team members on scientific thinking and problem-solving skills
• Develop productivity improvements, cost containment and space optimization to ensure inventory integrity and a strong customer focus
• Drives optimal solutions with the identification and adoption of best practices by partnering with functional leaders and gathering and utilizing data from outside organizations
• Present change proposals and results to all levels of the organization, from hourly workforce to senior leaders
• Partner with local and Global teams to share best practices and work cross-functionally and across geographies on projects
• Additional duties as assigned by manager

Craft your career with us if you have:
 

• 3+ years of warehouse or distribution experience with a focus on inventory management and optimization
• Prior role(s) requiring strong analytics and data interpretation
• Experience from a global operations or logistics function, or relevant management consulting experience
• Experience working with Distribution Centers globally and/or 3PLs
• Experience translating global strategic priorities into concrete and day-to-day initiative
• Experience with transformation or strong change management/project management abilities
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to proactively and proficiently diagnose problems and identify and implement solutions
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Strong facilitation skills, change management experience, and project and resource management
• Strong interpersonal & leadership skills and ability to motivate others
• Senior level communication – a strong written and oral communicator, able to adapt to audience
• Ability to think/act both strategically and tactically
• Problem solving skills
• Resilience – ability to stay calm and deliver under pressure
• Organization and priority management skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience with ERP, WMS, TMS, and RF Scanners
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong experience with business intelligence tools
• Basic Microsoft Access, Word, and PowerPoint skills

About Pandora:

Pandora designs, manufactures, and markets hand-finished jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.   

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 27,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery at two LEED certified facilities in Thailand using recycled silver and gold. The company plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 and has joined the Science Based Targets initiative to reduce emissions across its full value chain. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated a revenue of DKK 23.4 billion in 2021.   

Pandora’s recruitment procedures are designed to be transparent and clear for all candidates. This helps us ensure that applicants are provided with a fair and equal opportunity to demonstrate their competencies and skills by removing blocking factors, biases, and risks of discrimination. We encourage everyone applying to our vacancies to refrain from adding identity-related elements such as a photo, marital status, and age.