Senior Advisor - Business Transformation

With engagements (projects) across all technology departments and industrial sectors, the role of the Senior Manager is to work with manufacturing clients using the MTC structured engagement process, to define the current state of manufacturing operations and financial performance.  Use of relevant assessment and mapping tools, to capture opportunities for technology insertion to support the business growth strategy.

As a Senior Manager, you will carry influence and authority in the organisation. Clear reporting lines are in place, and you will be supported by your Team Leader. Autonomy is at the heart of all things at the MTC, as such you are expected to self-govern, though this is not without a proportional degree of oversight.

Undertake innovative Engineering research work focused primarily on technology/manufacturing readiness levels (TRL7/MRL5), and able to demonstrate industrial project delivery.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leading large (>800 hrs) projects with manufacturing clients at their site(s) and remotely
  • Taking ownership to ensure work meets customer requirements, is delivered within agreed budgets and timescales.
• Deliver MTC Products & Services programs:
  • Manage stakeholders
  • Manage your team to identify, explore and share relevant information succinctly
  • Ensure a co-ordinated scoping out of potential opportunities, from a relevant range of disciplines, for the deployment of manufacturing best practice and technology application
    • To include planning for and delivering workshops/sprints, facilitating both MTC & client resources in support of project deliverables
• Through MTC delivery methods processes, evaluating opportunities to define work packages with clear value propositions
• Deliver work packages from the resulting Transformation Roadmap which prepare the business for technology insertion to include:
  • manufacturing best practice
  • defining capability enhancement
  • business process re-engineering for innovation
  • coaching and mentoring for culture change and leadership
  • supply chain assessments and development/upscaling
• Train, be approved and function effectively as a Technical Governor on nominated projects
• Contribute to the MTC’s ongoing expectations for innovation and product development, i.e. Internal Projects (aka IMPs)
• Support the Technology Groups in work packages to develop the technology solutions

[Large Programme Specific]

Where required, the role may take additional responsibility to support the leadership, and carrying out of, a specific functional role within a Technology function or large program of work within the MTC’s Technology Group or Industrial Sectors. 

Person Specification

Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes

All aspects of the role are to be carried out as an exemplar within the business in adhering to the MTC values:

• Good Engineering degree, (2:1) and/or relevant experience within the Advanced Manufacturing Sectors such as automotive, aerospace and defence.
• Experience in the manufacturing sector as a Supply Chain manager and/or Operations manager/director
  • Minimum of 10 years’ experience within industry, including leadership and change management roles, in a senior management capacity
  • Has a balance of both theory and industrial application
  • Highly experienced with delivering manufacturing or supply chain transformation projects
  • Experience of capacity uplift and production upscaling highly desirable
  • Able and comfortable to perform as a team member or leader, across varying business levels and disciplines, sharing knowledge, providing guidance and technical advice, and to effectively delegate responsibilities while ensuring accountability, fostering collaboration, and driving delivery against strategic objectives
  • Coaching and mentoring junior staff
  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload to meet deadlines and resolve conflicting demands
  • Experience of creating, managing, and developing supply chains both nationally and internationally
• Demonstrates and maintains a history of learning and personal development
• A persuasive personality, able to explain technical and manufacturing method concepts to varying audiences
• Well-developed problem-solving abilities using proven methodologies such as 8D, SixSigma/DMAIC and PPS
• Conversant with QMS such as AS9100, TS16949 or other sector specific quality system standards

• Demonstrable ability to conceptualise new/alternative approaches, develop a program of work to satisfy/meet a need(s) and package to form a robust solution/ countermeasure
• Ability to "think out of the box", identify and resolve issues using a strongly analytical approach and challenge the status quo
• High level stakeholder management, both internally and externally, demonstrating a high degree of credibility and integrity in a customer facing role
• Commercially and financially astute
• Excellent decision-making capability, able to manage multiple concurrent tasks and prioritize effectively
• Fully computer literate with Microsoft Office 365 tools
• Independent and driven self-starter and completer-finisher
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with technical information that is appropriate to the audience

Desirable Skills/Qualifications/Experience/Attributes:

• Possesses over 20 years of experience across multiple sectors and industries, with a strong focus on Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains. This includes senior management roles encompassing leadership, strategic change management, and delivery within engineering and manufacturing consultancy environments.
• Willing and able to hold and maintain an appropriate level of security clearance
• Able to absorb a wide range of developments in technology and see how these can add value to the industrial sectors
• Can demonstrate delivery of supply chain strategy, implementation and performance improvements
• Professional Qualification under the following bodies (ASCM, IoSCM or similar)
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• MBA