Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Passion for People, Culture & Collaboration My Plum Profile: https://secure.plum.io/en/p/hyruoLcqUXEtM2Fe-HgkLA -> -- Plum-Profile Start: -- "Your Top Talent! Managing Others The ability to take charge of a group and motivate group members toward common goals. You are... Very good at understanding how to motivate people, ensuring others' alignment behind a vision, and providing feedback. Capable of monitoring others' work and developing plans to prioritize and accomplish goals. Able to build a positive team spirit and collaborate to reach goals. Extraordinary at motivating and inspiring others to attain goals, expressing opinions, and exercising authority. Very good at building mutual trust, and coaching and mentoring others. Decision Making Decision Making The ability to make high-quality decisions based on limited information. You are... Exceptional at anticipating problems and choosing forward-thinking solutions. Capable of being thorough, deliberate, and identifying potential problems with a solution. Able to critically evaluate information, generate solutions, and use facts, logic, and experience to support decisions. Excellent at expressing opinions and beliefs and taking control of a situation. Embracing Diversity Embracing Diversity The ability to understand others' perspectives and deal effectively with different types of people. You are... Very good at knowing what to say to make people feel included, welcome, and accepted. Capable of adapting to a wide range of people and being open to different attitudes, values, and personalities. Strong at being respectful, sensitive, and making others feel comfortable and appreciated." --- Plum profile end. --- - Effective at leading collaborative teams and fostering work-environments that drive trust, empathy and efficiency. -Motto: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -Track record of over-achieving. -Good at focusing on and finding the biggest opportunities not the easiest ones and leading teams to get out of their comfort-zone. -Broad tool-set, strategic view and varied experiences in order to avoid the tunnel view and remaining agile in order to quickly deliver big benefits sustainably. -Enjoying motivating and coaching teams; giving people purpose at work. -Expert in the following fields: -Lean & Agile -Corporate Culture -Change Management -High Performing Teams -Innovation -Strategy -Leadership in the digital age -Organisational Architecture -Introduction of company-wide Ways of Working -Internal company trainings -Coaching
Coaching Lean Masters and teams to implement lean across the division “grid”. o Supporting the further rollout of the lean framework across Axpo, including introducing lean budgeting and lean portfolio management concepts. o Supporting digital and lean initiatives for the finance (treasury) team and for the hydroelectric business as well. Supporting End-To-End rollout of process improvements.
Leading improvement projects across the upstream Supply Chain. Reducing SKU onboarding time. Implementing new ways of auditing suppliers. Helping shortlist thousands of new SKUs for the Nordics region. Performing a VSM-Analysis for Europe (End-To-End Analysis) regarding the correlation between the time an ingredient spends in the value chain and the quality. Highlighting cost saving opportunities. Working with the Distribution Centres to achieve cross-functional improvements. Consulting peers on projects (e.g. third party warehouse strategy etc).
Implementing Performance Control Systems, PDCA Structures (Plan Do Check Act) across the Upstream Supply Chain. Initiating a preventive Error Reduction approach, away from unstructured firefighting, using Lean Six Sigma. Supporting the procurement organisation in implementing lean ways of working. Guiding my team to identify upstream cost saving opportunities (cross-docking, 3PL, central DC Analyses...). Supporting my team in leading waste reduction efforts across the value chain (waste in terms of physical waste and in terms of the 7/8 lean wastes). All key KPIs improved and achieved.
Coaching Lean Six Sigma projects on 10 sites (10X+ achievements of estimated benefits). Introducing global standards (Leader Standard Work/TWI/OKR's/Obeya...). Giving trainings on diverse topics (AM/TPM/TWI). Coaching site leaders on change management and supporting cultural changes (Shingo/KBI..). Improving End-to-End-thinking across the Supply Chain by using agile techniques. Supporting and leading OEE implementation for all sites. Co-leading lean@QC workshops for the QC Labs generating thousands of saved man-hours with same/better quality. Supporting the global IoT strategy and rollout. Leading A3 workshops on most critical problems/opportunities for the cluster. Developing automated Dashboards using Power Bi for Europe. Performing Operational Excellence maturity assessments at factories throughout Europe. Giving training and coaching on diverse operational excellence topics such as SMED, DOE, Hoshin Kanri, Preventive Maintenance Strategies, Value Stream Mapping, Lean Scheduling... Establishing lean layouts at a greenfield factory extension and working on a business case on Automated Guided Vehicles with the head of logistics. GMP/Sterile production.
Providing consulting and coaching services in the field of Lean and Agile Management including Business Model Innovation. Main focus: Agile & Lean Management. Topics covered by NEWAgean: -Creating an agile organisation. -Applying lean methodology in an ever changing world. -Master change as a core competitive advantage. -Empowering people and unleashing their potential for the benefit of the employees and the company. -Introduction of company-wide 'Ways of Working' especially taking into account the corporate culture. One of NEWAgean's client's (Office Origin) reference: "We were delighted with the outcome of Mr. Wijkström's work and our company has gained greatly from investing in his services. We urgently recommend his services to any business."