Job Description
Ready to shape how a global business works—and turn your ideas into a lasting impact?
Join KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA as a forward-thinking Business Excellence Manager (m/f/d) in our Group Strategy team. A great international team awaits you, with the opportunity to make your mark in a global corporate environment and an industry with sustainability at its heart.
Here, you can do more than recommend change: you can lead it from strategy through execution.
Reporting to the Lead of Commercial and Organizational Excellence, you will advise senior leadership and bring together digital transformation, systems, data and continuous improvement to shape better ways of working.
It is your opportunity to turn complex business challenges into practical solutions that strengthen our operations, enable growth, and prepare KWS for the future.
This is a permanent, full-time position based either at our headquarters in Einbeck, Lower Saxony, or at our Berlin-based office – KWS Berlin GmbH.
Your tasks – transformation meets impact:
- Drive end-to-end transformation programs across functions and geographies, ensuring delivery within time, scope and budget
- Partner with senior leaders and C-level executives as a trusted transformation advisor, aligning business needs, digital opportunities and execution paths
- Translate strategy into action using Lean / Continuous Improvement, digital transformation, data & analytics, Business Process Management and Project & Change Management
- Lead the diagnosis, simplification and redesign of business-critical processes, applying Lean principles and aligning people, processes, systems and data for maximum effectiveness
- Identify and shape digital and data-driven solutions that eliminate inefficiencies and translate business challenges into scalable transformation initiatives
- Establish strong governance and use data, performance metrics and continuous improvement practices to enable decision-making and sustain transformation impact
- Build and evolve the systems, capabilities and continuous improvement culture needed to enable sustainable transformation
Your profile – experience meets transformation mindset:
- Proven track record in leading complex, cross-functional business and digital transformation initiatives in an international environment
- Experience with process and transformation methodologies and tools such as Lean, BPM, SAP Signavio, Celonis or comparable platform
- Strong expertise in lean and continuous improvement, with demonstrated experience in simplifying processes, eliminating waste and driving measurable performance improvements
- Deep experience in systems and digital transformation, connecting business requirements, processes, technology and implementation
- Strong understanding of data & analytics and the ability to turn data into actionable business insights and improvement opportunities
- Ability to translate complex business challenges into pragmatic, digital and scalable solutions with measurable outcomes
- Strong project, change, governance and stakeholder management capabilities, including collaboration with senior leaders and executive teams
- Excellent communicator and structured problem solver with the ability to bridge business, technology and diverse stakeholder groups
- Advanced proficiency in English is required. Knowledge of German or another foreign language is considered an asset
Our offer:
- As a family business, we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, vision and independence; this culture is lived in practice and ensures an open and friendly working atmosphere from day one
- The best of both worlds: KWS Berlin combines the security of a large, stable company with the passion of a start-up
- Our location in the heart of Berlin-Schöneberg is very modern; directly opposite the underground station Bülowstraße and with secured car & bicycle parking spaces
- We offer 30d holidays, flexible working hours, holiday and Christmas bonuses, company pension scheme, JobRad and/or Jobticket
- True to our motto "Make yourself grow", we support the professional and personal development of our employees
We look forward to receiving your application online application.
