Process Improvement Analyst
The role in a nutshell: Facilitate, cultivate and develop a business-wide culture of continuous improvement. This will be achieved by leading Continuous Improvement delivery & training members across Kinto UK. You will use proven Toyota Principles including Toyota Production Systems (TPS), Toyota Ways of Working and Kaizen.
Why should you apply for this role?
“Joining our Continuous Improvement team means stepping into the heart of the Toyota Management System. You’ll work directly with Toyota’s world‑class improvement methods, helping teams visualise their processes, solve real problems and embed sustainable improvements. It’s a role with exceptional development opportunities, you’ll learn from TPS experts, lead meaningful change, and build a skillset that supports long‑term growth within Toyota and the wider KINTO/TFS family.”
A bit about TPS: The People & Culture department provide Human Resources, Learning & Development and Continuous Improvement services across TFSUK, KINTO UK (KUK) and KINTO Join Ltd (KJL). The Continuous Improvement team is responsible for nurturing a work environment where employees are constantly developing, identifying opportunities for improvements in the workplace.
What you’ll be doing:
- Be the SME, Promaster & support the business with our Standardisation tool Process Manager
- Participate in continuous improvement (Kaizen) activities by supporting the visualisation & mapping of current processes and defining their ideal state.
- Work in a team of business collaborators to improve the operations in the business area.
- Support problem solving & Kaizen workshops.
- Assist TPS subject experts to identify process improvement areas, act a Champion to embed TPS and Kaizen into the organisation.
- Create, maintain and track relevant KPIs to monitor Kaizen progress and report on progress to management.
- Support key projects as required by gathering, identifying and analysing data to identify opportunities for improvements.
- Create training material on lean management and problem solving & cascade across the organisation.
- Standardise and visualise operation processes to support system development journey.
- Support Annual TFSUK/EAR/Global Kaizen Competitions & UK competition winner entry.
- Take an active interest in the overall fleet management and wider automotive industry and its evolution by engaging with experts, reading relevant publications and connecting with experts.
How you could stretch this role:
- Support Annual TFSUK/KINTO UK/EAR/Global Kaizen Competitions & UK competition winner entry
- Ad hoc support in Continuous Improvement with our key partners and suppliers.
- Delivering Toyota Way training to other SFC/KINTO entities across EAR
- Best practice sharing across EAR/ Kinto EU
Requirements
Key Experience & Skills:
- Ability to map, analyse and visualise data in Excel
- Project management experience and familiarity with project management tools
- Hands on and meticulous approach in mapping current process condition and identifying process gaps
- Strong team working skill and resourcefulness
Attributes & Behaviours:
- Strong time management and organisational skills
- Enthusiastic, challenge motivated and driven to implement high standard productivity across the business
- Analytical, process driven and data focused approach to work.
- Resourceful and self-motivated
This position will be working for KINTO-UK Ltd which is a Mobility Brand owned by the Toyota Group, offices located in Portsmouth. KINTO-UK share their HR function with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) in the UK, however the job being advertised will not be working directly for Toyota Financial Services.
Benefits
- Competitive starting salary
- Bonus earning potential
- 25 days holiday + 8 days bank holiday
- Great pension scheme starting at employee (EE) contribution of 4% with an employer (ER) contribution of 11%. This can flex up to 6% EE contribution and 15% ER contribution
- Company Car Scheme following passing of probation
- Private Medical Cover
- Life assurance scheme
- Discounts on different retailers
- Wellbeing hour each month
- Discounts on Toyota & Lexus cars
- Volunteer Days
- Wellbeing events
- Employee assistance programmes
- Free fruit in the office
- Free onsite car parking
- Working Hours 37.5 per week Monday - Friday
- Hybrid working policy 2 days from home each week should you want to
KINTO UK is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from anyone who is excited by the opportunity of joining us and will thoroughly consider all applications without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS
At KINTO we value everyone and are pleased to be recognised as a Disability Confident Employer, which is a national standard that ensures our processes are accessible to all.
Everyone is unique, and that means what works for some may not work for everyone. When it comes to recruitment, please do let us know if we can adjust our process to be meet your accessibility needs.
- Some examples of how we might be able to help are listed below:
- Providing a copy of interview questions before the interview
- Organising a time and location that best suits you
- Allowing additional time for the assessment and interview
We are happy to review any adjustment on a case-by-case basis, so please let us know how we can support you to be your best self.
On the job training will be provided, we recognise we all learn differently, and we want to ensure that our training will suit your learning style. We are open to talking to you about how we can make learning your new role in the most positive way.