V.I.E - Junior Digital Change Manager

Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry, health and the environment. Our company offers innovative solutions based on continuously improving technologies. We produce air gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon and specialty gases, but also other gas solutions such as hydrogen. Our 64,500 employees work for our customers in 78 countries. Dynamic and creative. Innovative and lively.

As our Junior Digital Change Manager, you will play a key role in achieving the Group’s ADVANCE strategy for the Packaged Business, and support the FIT PG, a worldwide initiative on our Cylinder Operations aiming to transform and optimize our cylinder supply chain.

You will work across the Central Europe organization of Industrial & Operations managers (Production managers, Supply Chain, Operations Control, Product managers,...) to:

• Prepare our IT-OT infrastructure to digital change: assessing the readiness of our production sites, contributing to gap analysis, support local teams to elaborate and implement action plans.

• Prepare digital solutions implementation for the production domain, by analyzing site's specificities, preparing solution & setup, support local roll-out and training of key users for new digital solutions while interfacing with Group Industrial Direction.

• After implementation, support in extracting value through the tools usage and measuring performance to continuously adjust settings and improve performance of our resources.

• Adhoc support in other industrial transformation projects, best practices identification and preparation for replication (up to execution if possible).

• Travel to our sites is expected to understand and have close collaboration with the operations teams, mainly in Germany but also across Central Europe.

Why Join Us?

• In this project, you will get to see the organization from a bird’s eye view and learn from experts on the field. From here, you will be able to apply the skills you have gained to almost anywhere in the organization, after the VIE!

• Contribute to a key transformational project of the Group for Central Europe.

• Work alongside an experienced manager with >20 years of international experience. We are excited to have a fresh perspective and to hear your ideas!

Are you a MATCH?

Candidate education

Master’s Engineer profile - industrial engineering, chemical engineering, supply chain/production, with some basic knowledge of IT/OT and data analysis, Lean management/5S studies, etc.

Candidate profile

• Master's degree in Engineering (industrial engineering, chemical engineering, supply chain/production, with some knowledge of data analysis, lean management/5S, etc.)

• Ability to model complex situations and strong analytical thinking and skills.

• Some basic experience with data visualization with MS Power BI (other BI systems experience like R, Python, SAP BW etc. would be an asset).

• Motivated and self-driven.

• Good communicator and team player.

• Result-oriented, structured working style, adaptable.

• Hands-on mentality.

• Appetite for international and cross-cultural environments, curiosity and enthusiasm.

• Knowledge of ERP Systems would be an asset.

Expected work experience

• 1-2 years of work experience if possible.

Languages required

• Very good English - mandatory.

• French, German (both are an asset but not a must).

This mission is based in Krefeld, Germany for the duration of 12 months, extendable once.

Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore, only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for more information about these requirements:

https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en/what-is-the-vie-french-international-internship-program

The V.I.E., an international young graduate program, enables young professionals who are less than 28 and European Union nationals to work for a French company in any country of the world. Becoming part of this program means going abroad to carry out a professional assignment for up to 24 months whilst benefiting from social care coverage and an interesting salary, which depends on the host country.

Business France, the French agency for international business development, is in charge of all the administrative procedures of your assignment. For further information, please visit the following link:https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/en

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What makes us special | Our Benefits

World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 66,000 employees and serves more than 3.5 million customers and patients.

Through the passion and diversity of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders. Join us for a stimulating experience: you’ll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.

Presentation of the team
You will be part of the Industrial Direction team of 10 colleagues supporting the 7 operational entities of the Central Europe cluster (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey). We are a diverse team decentralized across those countries.

Based in Krefeld, Germany, you will support the Industrial Cylinder Operations Program Manager, alongside 4 other colleagues, on the Packaged Gases activities, interacting with the operational supply chain team of the 7 entities.

Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.