Corporate Lean Partner (Foss Flow Partner)

Join FOSS as one of our five Corporate Lean Partners and play a vital role in elevating our business, empowering our people, and serving our customers.

The first of three new FOSS Flow partners started in April, one more will start in June.
Now we are searching again to complete the team of five.

The job

Are you prepared to make a significant impact and lead a global organization towards exceptional levels of innovation, excellence, and customer centricity? As a Corporate Lean Partner (referred to as FOSS Flow Partner), you will establish the essential foundations for the organization, with strong support from top management.

Joining a collaborative team of five FOSS Flow Partners while reporting to one of our SVPs in Corporate Management, you’ll serve as both a strategic leader and trusted advisor. Your contributions will focus on:

  • Defining FOSS Flow: Establishing the meaning of Lean at FOSS on strategic, tactical, and operational levels by collaboratively developing the FOSS Flow strategy with the FOSS Flow committee as part of the FOSS Flow Partner team
  • Partnering with Leadership: Reporting to one of the Senior Vice Presidents in Corporate Management, you will assist key business areas and their leaders in comprehending, learning, and implementing FOSS Flow on a global scale

Your primary responsibilities

As a FOSS Flow Partner, you will be at the forefront of our transformation journey, setting the strategy, assessing maturity, and enabling global leaders to implement FOSS Flow initiatives at all levels. You will collaborate with decision-makers, develop systems and tools, and ensure alignment with our organization's goals. You will be a pioneer in stepping ahead of the organization and leading the way, strongly supported by top management in FOSS. Your role will involve:

  • Strategy Implementation: Set the FOSS Flow strategy, assess maturity, and drive initiatives by supporting decision-makers with expertise and best practices
  • System and Tool Development: Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and integrate the FOSS Flow system and tools into organizational processes
  • Leadership and Training: Co-develop and improve the FOSS Flow leadership onboarding program and coaching training for managers
  • Community Building: Increase the impact of FOSS Flow by co-driving the community and supporting decision-makers with the next steps and end-state targets

Your skills and qualifications

We are looking for a motivated leader who brings expertise, curiosity, and empathy to this transformative journey. Our ideal candidate will have:

  • Experience in designing and executing transformation from a low maturity baseline
  • Capability to leverage previous LEAN experience to lead a transformation initiative within FOSS's organization
  • Experience from global OEM producers or other large global corporations in a similar position
  • Perhaps you are a former consultant seeking to go deeper into organizational transformation by working directly with leaders and teams

Key personal attributes

  • Exceptional interpersonal and change management skills
  • Proven ability to match needs and expectations to all levels of the organization and act with integrity and curiosity among all stakeholders
  • Strong communication, facilitation, and visualization skills to align priorities and drive collaboration
  • A coaching mindset, with the ability to build trust and empower teams to reach their full potential

What we offer

At FOSS, we are committed to fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. As a FOSS Flow Partner, you will play a crucial role in driving our journey towards operational excellence and enhancing customer satisfaction as part of our corporate strategy anchored in top management. We urge you to contribute beyond your own role and area of responsibility, and we will have many opportunities for growth and development.

Your impact

Join us to help shape the future of FOSS, bringing our people and processes together to achieve exceptional results. Be part of a team that values collaboration, celebrates successes, and builds sustainable progress together.

Ready to take the next step?

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, apply today and start your journey as a FOSS Flow Partner. Together, let’s create a future of excellence.

Contact: Christine Amalie Fisker.

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.

Ansættelsestype: Permanent

Hjemmearbejde: Not offered

Ugentlig arbejdstid: Full-time

How to apply

Our goal is to make the recruitment process as professional and positive as possible. The recruitment process starts when you’ve submitted your application online. Vacant positions at FOSS do not always have an application deadline, so please apply today rather than tomorrow. The reason for this is that we want to ensure a fast and efficient process, which means that we review applications on an ongoing basis. Candidates who are invited for interviews will receive an invitation per email.

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Sustainability is an integral part of our business

At FOSS, we have a taken a holistic approach to Sustainability. It’s not only about conducting our business in a responsible and ethical manner. It’s also about developing solutions that make a difference in the world. We help our customers tackle difficult global challenges such as efficiency in food production, consistency in quality and food safety.

We are operating in a world with significant population growth, scarce resources, food safety scandals and growing concerns about the climate. As the leading business-to-business provider of dedicated analytical technology, we play a key role in this environment.

For example, our technology is increasingly important in expanding food supply by making rational use of increasingly limited resources, while ensuring the best quality food reaches the consumer. To address this challenge there is a need for the development of solutions that analyze and make data manageable and actionable throughout the production process. Information management of analytics will be the future of the food and feed industry, enabling producers to increase yields by being more efficient. Intelligent and automated processes that run on data will define our customers’ future production - and much of the 10% of our turnover we annually invest in research and development will be dedicated to this area.

Working at FOSS

We work on a global scale to develop the people working at FOSS. We strive to enhance job satisfaction and motivation by constantly improving the competencies of our managers as well as following up on employee satisfaction.

We know our employees are our strongest asset.

Therefore, we emphasise, invest in and appraise our employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, and take pride in creating an environment with trust, confidence and development. We also believe that clearly defined objectives enable people to achieve their performance potential and that the support from the immediate superior is essential. Most important of all; trained, well-motivated and competent employees are a perquisite for success in the future. We manage by values, but also clear objectives, and follow up through regular meetings between the employee and the manager. In these meetings, there is also room to discuss career aspirations and other development opportunities including internal career moves.

You will have the opportunity for internal career development.

As a company, we are small enough for you to get high influence in the job, but we are also big enough for complex development and global careers. If you want to move in a new direction and continue to develop along with your professional capable colleagues, we offer the opportunity for internal career moves inside FOSS. As we are a knowledge-heavy company, this is a win-win scenario for both FOSS and our employees.

Work with creative and professionally strong colleagues.

Teamwork is essential to FOSS. By developing solutions in cross-functional teams, we integrate knowledge, experience and competences from many perspectives to achieve great results. We communicate in a straight-forward manner and solve challenges together. In FOSS, we truly value that you voice your opinion, take responsibility and ownership. Our company size in turn allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions.

If you join FOSS, we promise you that you will enter an environment with new learnings through projects, new technologies and market opportunities. We love to be entrepreneurial and open-minded to new ideas, and if you get a good idea – you can bring it forward.

Join a company with a clear business idea and purpose, but also strong values.

In a global world with a growing population, there is an ever-increasing demand for safer food, production that is more efficient and less food waste. Globally, we need to produce as much food the next 40 years as the last 8,000 years to meet the needs of a growing population and declining natural resources. A huge challenge, which requires that we become better at utilizing the resources available.

The business vision of FOSS to contribute to a more sustainable use of increasingly valuable agricultural resources, and to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We provide the industry’s best analytics, which add value to our customers by improving quality and optimising food and agricultural production.

Join FOSS, and you will be part of this mission, more relevant today than ever. 

Meet our employees

Meet Jan – manager of Concept Development in Research & Development

Jan’s daily work as a manager in Concept Development consists of generating new ideas in collaboration with his team and deciding which ideas should be developed. The daily challenge of finding the right solutions to address the needs of our customers is solved by a diverse and competent group of specialists working together.



Meet Mariana – Chemometrician in Research & Development

Mariana is a Spanish Chemometrician specialised in NIR. Coming from a research background her move to FOSS was motivated by a desire to work with real products and real customers. AT FOSS she is involved in the innovation of new products, developing calibrations for the EyeFoss image analysis grain analyser.

About FOSS

FOSS creates end-to-end solutions that secure and improve food quality. From raw material to finished product. Our analysis instruments refine measurements into information management that enables businesses to run intelligent data-driven productions with less waste and bigger yields. Controlling cost and quality across all sectors and value chains, we help food and agricultural producers limit the number of human errors, scale their business faster and reduce manual labour as well as labour costs. We call it analytics beyond measure.

Over the last 60 years, we have made it our business to define the standard of analytical solutions for the food and agricultural industry. We pioneered advanced analysis for the challenging production environments in the 1960’s, and we were the first to integrate chemical composition analysis in process lines. Now our resolve and ambition have also made us the international benchmark in the field of chemometrics and real time analytics.

FOSS is a 100% family-owned company and the leading supplier of innovative analytical solutions; 98 percent of FOSS’ business is generated outside Denmark. FOSS has more than 100 patents and more than 20 world-first product introductions. FOSS employs more than 1700 dedicated people worldwide and has manufacturing, research and development facilities in Denmark and China. Solutions are sold and supported through FOSS sales and service companies in 28 countries and by more than 75 distributors. Many employees have a top-level scientific or technical background, including more than 130 Master of Science and more than 20 PhDs in areas such as photonics, chemometrics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, fermentation and bio-engineering, astrophysics, optical communication, physics, quality, nanotechnology, food science and adaptive radiotherapy. We also employ many factory-trained and certified support engineers stationed close to our customers.

FOSS

Foss Allé 1

DK-3400 Hilleroed

Denmark

Phone: +45 70 10 33 70

E-mail: info@foss.dk