Business Improvement Senior Specialist

The opportunity:

The Business Improvement Team works in collaboration with senior stakeholders to identify and deliver strategic business process improvements. Our remit spans our International business covering all geographies outside of the Americas.

We also play a role in supporting our wider Change Delivery Team in designing excellence into our core business systems and the processes that run through them.

The International division has recently launched a major 5 year growth plan and we are undertaking a set of strategic improvements to underpin this growth.

What youll be doing:

• Work with the Head of Business Improvement to shape business improvement projects aligned to strategic priorities
• Lead a mix of departmental cross functional and cross divisional process improvement projects
• Engage with senior leaders across International to find and scope team based improvement opportunities and determine how best to deliver
• Take a leading role in our Business Improvement practitioner network developing business-wide capability to achieve local improvements
• Contribute to our process improvement framework including training governance KPIs template libraries
• Support the organisation to embed and use process performance metrics
• Support the wider Change Delivery Team by assisting with process design activities on strategic system developments/improvements
• Promote the value of business improvement across the organisation

Our must-haves:

• A track record of process improvement projects of a cross functional and/or multi-geographic basis
• An ability to measure improvement benefits and promote these across the organisation
• Demonstrable experience in Lean Six Sigma methodologies to Black Belt
• Excellent problem solving skills with deep knowledge of root cause analysis and risk reduction techniques
• Proven ability to use data analysis to underpin improvement decisions
• A positive attitude to improvement and change
• Ability to work independently on projects
• A hands-on approach with high energy levels and self-motivation
• Capable of forming trusting relationships with senior stakeholders
• A strong ability to communicate and influence both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience within Insurance in particular the London Market would be useful

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20 countries is a holding company for insurance reinsurance specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

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Whats in it for you

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• Fantastic company pension scheme private medical and dental cover life assurance travel insurance cover income protection season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part

Choose Apply Now to fill out our short application so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin sex gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

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