Continuous Improvement Lead

We don’t just build technology. We build hope for everyone dealing with Cancer.

At Elekta, we believe every individual deserves access to the best cancer care. That’s why we’re committed to developing innovative solutions that make precision radiation therapy and radiosurgery more effective, efficient, and accessible. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, we invite you to bring your expertise and energy to our team.

What You’ll Do At Elekta:

As part of the Continuous Improvement Stream within the Process & Tools Team, you’ll work closely with teams across both hardware and software to help them improve how they deliver. You will also play a vital role in the development and support of tracking and analysis tools to visualise work and provide data to improve.

Responsibilities:

Agile Tooling and Ways of Working

• Champion, teach and coach working with our tooling in an agile way, ensuring consistent and effective use across teams while acknowledging relevant context.
• Deliver training, support materials and workshops to promote relevant agile and lean practices and tool adoption across the organization.
• Design and support agile dashboards and metrics to provide real-time insights into flow, forecasting and quality performance, helping teams to improve delivery predictability and quality.
  
  

Continuous Improvement

• Help facilitate kaizen events, value stream mapping, root cause analysis, and other workshops as appropriate.
• Support metrics to monitor team performance, quality and delivery health.
• Provide guidance on feedback loops and retrospectives to foster a culture of continuous learning at team and stream level.
  
  

Digitalization Leadership

• Champion new tooling initiatives across the Product and Technology organization in alignment with R&D management.
• Work with functional and delivery leadership to translate operational needs into clear tooling and workflow improvement proposals.
• Identify digitalisation opportunities, including the use of AI tools focusing on automation, to enhance value delivery and improve agile/lean delivery practices.
• Represent R&D in relevant forums related to tooling configuration, delivery process harmonization, and digital workflows.
  
  

What You'll Bring:

• Degree in Digital Technologies, IT, or a related discipline, or proven ability to work within these areas with a minimum 3+ years of experience in agile work environments.
• Demonstratable experience teaching and coaching teams and streams in agile/lean approaches and culture.
• Proven track record of driving and supporting tooling initiatives in an agile/lean environment.
• Hands-on knowledge of tools such as Jira is a must, including configuration and workflow optimisation.
• Certifications in agile and lean methodologies (e.g., SAFe, ScrumMaster) preferred.
• Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder landscapes, effectively driving collaboration, influencing decisions, and managing conflicts throughout change initiatives.
• Availability for international travel (~25%) to support global teams and initiatives as needed
  
  

What You’ll Get:

In this role, you will work for a higher purpose; hope for everyone dealing with cancer, and for everyone regardless of where in the world, to have access to the best cancer care. In addition to this, Elekta offers a range of benefits.

• Work Pattern (you are required to work from the Crawley HQ 4 days a week with 1-day WFH)
• Up to 25 paid vacation days (plus bank holidays)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Attractive Employer Pension Contribution Package
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance
• Onsite subsidized restaurant, offering budget-friendly dining
• Love electric (Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme)
  
  

Hiring process:

We are looking forward to hearing from you! Apply by submitting your application and résumé in English, via the “Apply” button.

For questions, please contact the Talent Acquisition Partner responsible, [email protected]. We do not accept applications through e-mail.

We are an equal opportunity employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.