Continuous Improvement & Performance Specialist with French

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time Continuous Improvement & Performance Specialist with French in Cluj-Napoca, Romania we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your procurement and leadership expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll report to Anamaria Berariu (France Operations Manager, Cluj-Napoca), and work alongside passionate and fun teammates.

You'll ensure the effective performance for the Global Procurement Function and the achievement of service delivery requirements. Day-to-day, you will act as business partner to the Global Functions (Procurement, Supply Chain, Quality, Project Office), Procurement Head of Region/Country Leaders and SSO counterpart, supervising, and ensuring effective procurement activities.

You’ll specifically manage individual performance, build teamwork, initiate, and drive continuous improvement within your team, but also take lead for new initiatives and asses staff training needs.

We’ll look to you for:

Support to operations: 

• Assist the Procurement leadership teams to increase the performance, reduce cost function and propose organizational improvements;
• Participate to the Local Procurement management meeting & Dashboard;
• Support the Regional procurement in delivering the performance. Based on KPIs availability lead the routines, and implement appropriate data analysis or action plan to ensure;
• Support the Regional CI Manager in gathering the local Sourcing Performance needs;
• Contribute to the Procurement Transformation & Efficiency simplification plan deploying common standard Way of Working (WoW);
• Ensure that standard processes are known and applied in his area through regular communications, surveys and Return Of Experience (REX);   
• Ensure data preparation for the Monthly Procurement Dashboards and follow the associated actions plan.

Procurement Performance: 

• Contribute to the Change Management in Region for topics related to Method & Tools;
• Interact with the BPO & Subject Matter Expert (i.e: ASIP, ORCHESTRA, SAP GSI, ARIBA, Digital, QLIK)  whenever necessary;
• Secure the monitoring of Action Plan and Problem Solving;
• Ensure alignment with Alstom strategy, consistency with Procurement Maturity Roadmap, and proper integration;
• Formalize business requirements to the BPO relative to new needs;
• Ensure the good level of usage of the Procurement tools;
• Manage the actions plan required to improve the performance usage rate of the Procurement processes & tools;
• Contribute to the change management following the Tools Project deployment.

APSYS Procurement and other audits:

• Promoting the Alstom Code of Ethics and adhering to the highest standards of ethical conduct;
• Support in defining the Internal Control Questionnaire key items to be assessed with Internal Control teams;
• Involved in APSYS Procurement audits in his area (preparation, self-assessments, can perform some audits as Certified Assessor);
• Ensure local action plans are in place with a specific focus on major nonconformities closure;
• Contribute to APSYS Procurement referential improvement in providing feedback and gap analysis to APSYS Procurement expert.

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role: 

• Degree level qualification;
• 3-5 years’ experience in project management or Procurement (Site, Region, Commodity);
• Advanced knowledge of Procurement process & tools;
• Continuous improvement / Kaizen background is a plus;
• Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, Project knowledges would be a plus;
• Experiences in audit are a plus;
• Fluent English & French with international mindset;
• Strong interpersonal & leadership skills;
• Ability to influence and convince;
• Solid change management skills to lead change across in the Regions & Domains;
• Resilient, pragmatic and solution oriented;
• Reliable, autonomous, results and customer services oriented;
• Strong understanding of the IS&T concepts & tools;
• Demonstrates sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills;
• Strong presentation and editorial skills.

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines;
• Be part of a large team with over 1000 professionals in  HR, Finance and Procurement & Supply Chain;
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues;
• Utilise our Agile, Responsible and Inclusive working environment;
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries;
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning (Access to Alstom University and Alstom Learning Program);
• Professional Development Plan – we offer great opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential (Competitive Salary and Meal Vouchers,  Flexible Benefits at your choice - on top of your salary, Holiday Bonuses (Easter, Christmas), Employee Loyalty Bonus, Reimbursement of telework expenses – for amount of days worked from home, Additional Bonuses - referral bonuses, new-born bonus, discounts);
• Entitle to comprehensive and competitive social coverage (Life and Accident Insurance, Private medical subscription at Regina Maria and  Private Pension);
• Work-life balance - we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of work (Working from Home 3 days/week) and 25 days of annual leave;
• Be part of our Social Corporate Responsibilities initiatives (Social events, Humanitarian Actions).

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You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 70+ countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.