Lean Consultant

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

We ask

  • 2+ years
  • A customer centric focus
  • Analytical skills

We offer

  • Excellent secondary empoyment conditions
  • In charge of personal development
  • € 750 pm

Why Working at ABN AMRO?

  • Building a future proof bank
  • A diverse and inclusive culture
  • Extensive internal career opportunities

Lean Consultant

Lean Consultant

At a glance

Strategy Execution & Implementation (SE&I) is a centre of expertise within the COO office of ABN Amro. SE&I consists of a large team of professionals who are highly skilled on Program, Project, Change, Implementation management and Lean consultancy. Next to these competencies, they have specific knowledge of client units and domains of the bank. SE&I enables the bank in managing and executing both strategic and regulatory driven change. By taking end to end ownership - don’t stop until the change is embedded in the organization- they realize effective and efficient change with proven impact and thereby increasing the bank’s execution power on change and ‘Making Strategy Work’. 
 

Your job

As a Lean Consultant, you base conclusions and results on data. We analyse that data, look for connections and root causes in order to achieve truly impactful results. In addition, you will use project management skills to set up the right (DMAIC) structure and to create a schedule that ensures that deadlines are met. 
You are often responsible for projects from start to finish and liaise with all parties involved to ensure that the organisation is supported. Ultimately, you ensure the correct implementation of the change together with the business line. Your role will be different every time. From initiating, to implementing and evaluating; You do it all.

As a Lean Consultant, you will do various projects: from smaller process optimizations to strategic projects in which the Lean capability is used for analyses and structure. This usually involves cross-chain improvement projects in which you guide and advise Senior Management in their challenges. You can count on your team: you always do projects together with colleagues within ever-changing project teams. You perform analyses to determine the potential for improvement. This improvement potential can focus on improving customer /employee satisfaction, realising cost savings or increasing future revenue streams.

As a Lean Consultant, you will work on, for example:

  • Improving the throughput time and processing time within the Credit origination process 
  • Designing a process to capture and use ESG data, enabling us to provide specific ESG advice to Corporate Banking clients
  • Designing the setup, roles & responsibilities and way of working for new/heavily changing departments

Working environment

As a Lean Consultant you will functionally be part of the SE&I team within the COO office. You will be working closely together with both the P&C departments globally (e.g. Management Control & Regulations and the regional P&C departments), the various client segments (e.g. Commercial Clients and Corporate & Institutional Clients), products (e.g. Financing Solutions and ABF) and other (external) stakeholders (e.g. IT, Risk and Finance) to manage the change process.

Your profile

  • Curious and learning mindset
  • Proactive and adaptive attitude
  • Lean or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.  A Black Belt is appreciated
  • 3 years of experience in Lean projects or relevant Change Management projects
  • Excellent communicator who can act as a natural (informal) leader
  • Outgoing, a personality who can act on several levels and being an experienced sparring partner for senior management
  • Strong analytical, presentation and consultancy skills
  • Easily translate a holistic view in concrete actions
  • Fluent in English (Speaking and writing)

We are offering

  • The opportunity to play a key role in implementing the bank wide strategy
  • The opportunity to build your working knowledge of a leading financial institution 
  • The opportunity to broaden your career horizons by working with people all across the bank, from all Business Lines and Functions
  • The opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally
  • The gross monthly salary (Eur. 4.832 - 6.890 pm) - also displayed above - is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget.
  • The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in The Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month
  • Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year
  • Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000
  • Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position)
  • An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands
  • An excellent pension scheme
     

Interested?

Please apply online and we will contact you. For additional information, you may contact Zeynep Benek, Head of Change Portfolio Management Mobile: 06-24507105 / Email: zeynep.benek@nl.abnamro.com. 

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Disclaimer external recruitment agencies

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. No unsolicited services or offers, please.

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