Senior Consultant (m/f/d) Salaried Productivity

Job Description

Danfoss Business System (DBS) is setting the direction for our One Company approach to Business Excellence. We are engaging with key stakeholders across our business, to identify productivity improvements enabling growth while maintaining a lean and healthy organization. We are ready to scale our high performing, diverse team and are searching for the right people to join us on the journey in the Salaried Productivity team as our new Senior Consultant. 

“Salaried Productivity is not about working harder and running faster. It is about being conscious of what you are spending your time on and how this is being approached. We are on a growth journey and need to enable the business to grow significantly, while improving our EBITA” – Christine Twellmeyer, Head of Salaried Productivity. 

The role can either be fulfilled from our office locations in Hamburg or Offenbach, or from a Home Office anywhere in Germany.

Job Responsibilities

In this role, you will work in close cooperation with senior stakeholders in Danfoss Segments, Regions, and Corporate Functions, to identify critical areas of improvement, establish project teams and lead them through the transformation. You will be challenging, guiding and supporting the business in improving salaried employee work patterns by identifying and reducing non-value-adding activities and reducing complexity from their processes. 

• You will be working in a multicultural environment, leading projects and drive Change Management initiatives across various departments and value streams worldwide.
• You will analyse current state and drive problem solving activities, develop and implement project concepts that delivers results. 
• You will conduct all activities in close collaboration with our team, the selected project teams, leaders, and dedicated support functions. 

The job requires that you have the flexibility and willingness to travel a significant amount of your time and to work from our main offices in Europe, where our key stakeholders and internal customers are based.  

As part of a global network in DBS, you will continuously search and share best practices and Danfoss standards. 

More specifically, we create an impact by: 

• Identifying and optimizing work patterns within Salaried Productivity across Danfoss. 
• Leading process mappings and workshops with dedicated stakeholders. 
• Assessing departments or organizations to identify potentials for improvement. 
• Utilizing a train-the-trainer approach to support Danfoss leaders and employees in the implementation of new ways of working and scale our execution across the business. 
• Encouraging a culture of sustainable change and productivity driven mind sets, to ensure that productivity goals are being achieved. 
• Promoting and improving results by leveraging lean tools, consulting skills, business acumen, as well as stakeholder- and change management processes. 

Background & Skills

To be considered for this position, you possess a strong experience either from consulting, working with process improvements and efficiency or having been part of a team that has driven organizational efficiency in salaried areas (e.g. HR, R&D, Engineering, IT, S/C, Sales, Marketing etc.) or Lean in office areas. 

Furthermore, you are of course: 

• An effective communicator and consensus builder toward key stakeholders at varying levels of organizations. 
• A People-first person who possess the ability to quickly gain the trust of stakeholders, peers, and management. 
• A performance driven and result-oriented team-player. 
• An Intrapreneurial and improvement driven mindset. 
• Analytical and structured, humble yet self-confident and easy to work with. 
• Fluent in English, in both speaking and writing. 

By joining the Salaried Productivity team in Danfoss Business System, you will be joining a very successful organization at a crucial moment in time. For 20 years, DBS has been setting the direction for our operations on how to continuously improve performance within Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost. As we now embark on the journey with Salaried Productivity, we bring our learnings to play in a new setting. You will have a unique opportunity to impact and enable Danfoss to decouple our growth from our fixed expenses, allowing us to bring more sustainable products to our global customers and help us Engineer Tomorrow - to build a better future. 
 

For more details about this position, please contact Imke Never, Talent Acquisition Specialist, on +49 69 8902105.

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Employee Benefits

We are excited to offer you the following benefits with your employment:

• Market competitive compensation model and yearly bonus system
• Flexible working hours
• Possibility to work remotely
• Pension plan
• Personal insurance
• Communication package
• Opportunity to join Employee Resource Groups
• State of the art virtual work environment

This list does not promise or guarantee any particular benefit or specific action. They may depend on country or contract specifics and are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

Danfoss – Engineering Tomorrow

At Danfoss, we are engineering solutions that allow the world to use resources in smarter ways - driving the sustainable transformation of tomorrow. No transformation has ever been started without a group of passionate, dedicated and empowered people. We believe that innovation and great results are driven by the right mix of people with diverse backgrounds, personalities, skills, and perspectives, reflecting the world in which we do business. To make sure the mix of people works, we strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are treated equally, respected, and valued for who they are. It is a strong priority within Danfoss to improve the health, working environment and safety of our employees.

Following our founder’s mindset “action speaks louder than words”, we set ourselves ambitious targets to protect the environment by embarking on a plan to become CO2 neutral latest by 2030.

Danfoss is an EO employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.