Global OpEx Deployment Lead

Global OpEx Deployment Lead Our story goes
back more than 150 years, to the chilly southern coast of Scandinavia. From our
early success in Sweden and Denmark, we’ve grown into the world’s leading
specialist producer of plant-based oils, employing more than 4,000 people across
the globe. We work with our customers to make the products you love even better. The oils
we produce go into making your chocolate extra-creamy or putting the crunch
into your croissant. And it’s not just food — we work across industries to make
products that are higher quality, healthier and better for the planet. Everything we do is about Making Better Happen.

AAK Locations This position is based in one of
our locations:
Jundiaí (BR), Zhangjiagang (CN), Aarhus (DK),
Karlshamn (SE), Louisville (US) OR Hull (GB) About the role

Are you passionate
about driving transformation and building a culture of continuous improvement?
As Global Operational Excellence Deployment Lead, you will play a key role in
bringing AAK's Operational Excellence vision to life across our global manufacturing
network and value chain functions. Acting as the bridge between strategy and
execution, you will help embed sustainable ways of working that deliver
measurable business results and lasting capability growth.

Partnering with
leaders and teams across Operations, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Quality,
Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, R&D, and Go-to-Market functions, you
will coach, challenge, and inspire the organization to strengthen
problem-solving capabilities, improve performance, and drive meaningful,
sustainable change. Responsibilities
- Lead the deployment and embedding of AAK's global Operational Excellence roadmap across assigned production sites and value chain functions, ensuring consistent adoption of OWOW and OWOZ frameworks, standards, and ways of working.

- Develop and execute maturity-based deployment roadmaps aligned with site readiness and business priorities, conducting capability assessments, identifying gaps, and co-creating improvement plans with site and functional leaders.

- Provide coaching, facilitation, and capability building to leaders across Operations, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, R&D, and Go-to-Market functions, strengthening leadership effectiveness, problem-solving capabilities, and end-to-end performance.

- Act as the key link between global strategy and local execution, driving governance routines, performance management, cross-functional alignment, and the sustainable implementation of Operational Excellence methodologies while proactively addressing deployment risks and capability gaps.

- Partner with Global OpEx Specialists and stakeholders to deploy new standards, methodologies, and tools, while capturing and sharing best practices and field insights to continuously improve AAK's global OpEx framework and transformation journey.

About you
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or a related field;
Master's degree is an advantage.

- 10+ years of experience in Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, manufacturing, or supply chain operations, including multi-site deployment and transformation experience in complex operational environments.

Proven track record of leading cross-functional Operational Excellence transformations, with strong expertise in Lean, TPM, Six Sigma, Daily Management Systems (DMS), structured problem solving, and preferably TRACC or comparable OpEx frameworks.

- Exceptional coaching, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to develop leaders at all levels, drive alignment across matrix organizations, and achieve sustainable adoption without formal authority.

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