Innovation Specialist - Automation (GBS)
Innovation Specialist - Automation (GBS)
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The Innovation Specialist role is part of the GBS Process Innovation & Excellence (PI&E) team, and is responsible for designing, improving and optimizing E2E processes via innovation & automation solutions.
What we ask
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant area (e.g. Economics, Finance, IT)
- 3-5 years of experience in the area of Automation
- Proven experience with development of automation solutions
- Experience with required technologies e.g. RPA (especially UiPath), VBA, Low Code, Celonis
- Proven experience with continuous improvement
- Proven experience with working in a Microsoft environment (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, preferably Power Automate)
- Excellent verbal and written communication in English (other languages are a plus)
- Education or certificates in the following are considered a plus:
Continuous Improvement / LEAN
Automation capability (RPA, MS Power Platform, Python, SQL)
Process mining (Celonis)
Project Management
Change & Stakeholder Management
- Knowledge of translating business processes into technology, forming valuable developments
- Experience with SAP is an advantage
- Experience in a Shared Service/GBS organisation is an advantage
- Analytical and innovative mindset
- Stakeholder and change management capabilities
- System thinking, ability to think in process flows
- 'Can do' mentality
- Results and performance drive
- Customer and Service oriented mindset
What we offer
A wide range of benefits:
- Cafeteria
- Home office allowance
- Sustainable travel allowance
- MetLife life- and accident insurance
- Medicover package (Spring White + Hospital package)
- All You Can Move Sport Pass
- Grade allowance
- Yearly bonus
Opportunity to bring in your ideas and work on challenging tasks with real added value
Home office opportunity (3-4 days/week)
A great community and cheerful environment with colleagues from different cultures accross the globe
Vacancy description
- Execute according to innovation strategy roadmap
- Development and implementation of new automation solutions/reports for GBSoperational processes to enable better GBS/Business Unit performance
- Understand End-to-End business processes and translate business problems and value opportunities into process and technology solutions.
- Provide consultancy on projects, evaluates automation opportunities, propose optimal technical solution.
- Liaises with ICT regarding technical specifications of changes, assesses impact for the Innovation team owned tools, manages updates
- Identify process (and system) optimization opportunities by analyzing the company's processes
- Support senior Innovation Specialist to provide consultation on industry best practices for innovation solutions
- Provide solid innovation/ automation solutions to support and on optimize E2E process execution of the operational teams
- Design, build and maintain automation solutions (e.g. RPA, Low Code, VBA, Power Automate)
- Lead innovation projects and ensure these are delivered in Budget on Time and with required Quality.
- Safeguard policies and governance and working according to GBS improvement methodology
- Manages Innovation Community activities, initiatives across the Shared Services
- Does maintenance and fixes issues of delivered tools/solutions.
- Performs ICF controls if applicable for the Innovation Team owned tools.
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