RS Group
Senior CI and OPEX Leader
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Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our Corby office.
Contract Type: 18 months FTC
The Opportunity
As the Senior CI & OPEX Leader, you will lead high-impact transformation programmes that drive operational excellence, improve customer outcomes, and deliver measurable business value.
Working across global teams, you will champion Lean and Continuous Improvement methodologies, lead complex Black Belt-level initiatives, and identify opportunities to enhance efficiency, scalability, and future-state ways of working. With strong strategic and stakeholder leadership, you will influence change, build capability, and help embed a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation.
What You Will Be Doing
- Lead and deliver OPEX/Continuous Improvement programmes and Black Belt projects in line with governance frameworks, strategic objectives, and Hoshin plans, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and sustainable business outcomes.
- Drive Lean Management System adoption, CI maturity, and capability development across regional teams through coaching, training, certification, communities of practice, and embedding a culture of operational excellence.
- Identify, prioritise, and execute process improvement opportunities through value stream mapping, automation, and structured problem-solving, reducing waste, defects, and inefficiencies while increasing customer value, scalability, and process performance.
- Ensure robust performance management, governance, and reporting by tracking strategic objectives, benefits realisation, KPIs, risks, and project progress, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships and act as a CI/OPEX champion, promoting best practices, sharing success stories, supporting change adoption, and ensuring improvements are embedded and sustained in BAU operations.
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What You’ll Bring
- Strong Continuous Improvement/Operational Excellence professional with Black Belt (or advanced Green Belt) expertise and a proven track record of translating strategy into actionable plans and delivering results on time and in full.
- Extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional, and global improvement programmes, managing priorities effectively, and delivering outcomes through others in matrix environments.
- Skilled in stakeholder management, influencing and partnering with senior leaders, with excellent communication, coaching, and training capabilities across all organisational levels.
- Passionate change agent and process improvement champion who challenges the status quo, drives customer-focused solutions, and promotes a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Highly resourceful, analytical, and resilient self-starter with strong interpersonal skills, adaptability, and proficiency in Microsoft Office tools and process improvement platforms.
We Are RS
At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.
As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.
What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer-first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.
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Rewards
Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market-competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.
Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward, and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:
- Financial: pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
- Wellbeing: medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
- Lifestyle: transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
- Spotlight: our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values
Ready to Make Amazing Happen?
Join over 8,500 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.
Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.
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