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Role :Operational Excellence Regional Lead
Vacancies: 2
Locations: Gurugram (North) | Bengaluru / Chennai (South)
Job Title: Standardization & Operational Excellence Specialist

Role Purpose :
The Regional Lead – Standardization & Operational Excellence is responsible for driving Lean transformation, process standardization, and continuous improvement across Maersk Contract Logistics (MCL) customer warehousing, cold storage, and distribution operations within the assigned region.
This role will act as a change agent, embedding Lean Six Sigma, Industrial Engineering, and performance management rigor into daily operations to improve safety, productivity, cost efficiency, service levels, and customer experience, while ensuring strong alignment with global MCL standardization frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:
Operational Excellence & CI Deployment:
- Drive deployment of the regional Operational Excellence strategy
- Lead DMAIC / Kaizen / Lean transformation initiatives across warehouses & cold stores
- Identify, prioritize, and execute productivity, cost,



and service improvement opportunities across inbound, storage, picking, packing, dispatch, and returns processes.
- Deliver measurable improvements in labor productivity, space utilization, equipment efficiency, inventory accuracy, OTIF, and quality metrics.

Standardization & Process Excellence :
- Partner with Global & Regional MCL Standardization teams to define, localize, and deploy standard SOPs, work instructions, layouts, and best‑practice playbooks.
- Drive process compliance and standard work adherence across sites using audits, maturity assessments, and governance routines.
- Own benchmarking and best‑practice sharing across the region to scale proven CI solutions.

Site Maturity & Performance Management :
- Lead Operational Maturity Assessments (Lean maturity, CI maturity, performance culture) across assigned sites.
- Develop and track site‑specific improvement roadmaps with explicit milestones,

📌 Standardization & Operations Excellence Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Maersk
📍 Bengaluru