Transformation Lead - Operational Excellence; d​/f​/m) TK Solutions

We strive to make cities the best ever places to live, by advancing an industry that moves over 1 billion people each day. We are transforming our business by driving the industry norm and challenging ourselves, fostering a culture of internal and external collaboration, and building on our unique engineering capabilities to optimize existing and create new products and solutions for our customers that cater to real mobility needs.

TKE Home Solutions is the home mobility expert within TK Elevator (TKE).

We help people with reduced mobility to stay independent, safe, and confident in the place they love most: their own home.

Our stairlifts, platform lifts, and home elevators offer more than mobility – they bring freedom, dignity, and everyday comfort. Every installation makes a meaningful difference for our customers and their families.

With more than 900 colleagues worldwide across development, production, sales, and service, we combine strong engineering expertise with genuine empathy. We take pride in creating accessible living spaces that give people peace of mind.

As part of TKE’s global network of around 50,000 employees and over 1,000 locations, we benefit from leading vertical mobility technology and digital, AI driven innovation. Since becoming independent from thyssenkrupp in 2020, TKE has continued to grow, generating €9.2billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024/2025.

If you’re looking for meaningful work in a growing environment, TKE Home Solutions is a place where your impact truly matters.

Together, we move what matters most – people.

TKE – Move Beyond.

In the role of Transformation Lead Operational Excellence, you will steer the Operational Excellence workstream of Elevate, our group-wide transformation program, with a clear focus on improving productivity, performance and quality in new installation, service, manufacturing, logistics and procurement across all Home Solutions markets.

Working closely with country leadership and senior stakeholders, you will identify opportunities in the markets, challenge the status quo, and drive action across key operational levers, such as lead-time reduction, factory automation, procurement spend reduction, and new installation and service operations productivity improvement. Insights are converted into concrete measures, securing the delivery of measurable business and P&L impact.

The position provides substantial visibility with the executive team, together with a distinctive mandate to shape the operational transformation agenda of TKE Home Solutions. Location is flexible in one of our direct sales countries and will be defined together during the hiring process.

• Steer the Operational Excellence workstream within the Elevate transformation program by identifying operational opportunities to increase profit, challenging current thinking, and driving actions through to measurable results.
• Lead strategic initiatives across key operational value drivers, including process optimization, standardization, service delivery, resource productivity, and cost efficiency across markets.
• Own value realization end-to-end, ensuring initiatives translate into measurable P&L and EBITDA impact and addressing gaps between plan and actual performance.
• Conduct fact-based analyses to identify value creation opportunities, translate insights into actionable initiatives, and establish KPIs and governance mechanisms to enable data-driven execution.
• Partner with senior leadership to shape transformation priorities, challenge existing approaches, and drive cross-functional alignment and operational best practices across markets.
• Manage multiple work streams in parallel in a fast-paced transformation environment, setting priorities independently…