Product Change Leader Job in Veldhoven, Netherlands

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment.

Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry.

ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment.

Working at ASML
We provide the world’s top chipmakers everything they need to create better performing, cheaper semiconductor chips. Simply put: we are an industry leader supporting industry leaders.

As such, you’ll be encouraged to bring your best ideas and act on them. You’ll have the freedom, trust, and support in your field to experiment and solve complex challenges. Things are rarely dull when you’re constantly breaking new ground.

But despite our fast-paced environment at the forefront of tech, we take your work-life balance and wellbeing seriously. A business is only as good as its employees.

So join us, and you’ll be a part of a global collaboration. One that promotes creativity, the inclusion of highly diverse teams, and an exciting and dynamic work environment. Join us, and you’ll be a part of progress.

Product Change Leader Job Description

Introduction
Can you visualize yourself as a light in our changing machine? Driving the process for impact analysis with a complete business case, implementation planning and monitor actual implementation of changes at customers, factories and suppliers? Then this could be your next job!

Job Mission
Fast market introduction of ASML’s newest technologies requires a high level of product integrity throughout their lifecycle to enable affordable microelectronics. New hardware and changes on hardware are requested on daily basis for our products. A smooth implementation of these changes is crucial for our business. It is your mission to organize and secure the process for product changes to ensure quality to minimize costs and processing time.

Job Description
Make the difference in the efficiency and profitability of ASML by coordinating product change requests through the product life cycle. Tactically facilitate our product change process, apply your configuration management experience and your ability to influence people. You help our cross sector teams, on operational level, to protect the business of ASML against uncontrolled and unplanned changes while balancing speed and quality.

Main responsibilities:
Manage quality of change implementation plans while optimizing implementation cost and planning
Manage quality of impact analysis of changes, to minimize processing time and reliable planning
Organize and chair cross sector project change control board for impact analysis, planning and disposition of changes
Recognize and advise on scope of change requests (scope control, new or update change)
Coordinate and coach cross-sector project team on the product change process
Monitor and control the implementation of approved changes
Monitor and give feedback on changes being processed according agreed CM@ASML policy
Be involved in embedding improvements delivered from CM@ASML roadmap on operational levelContribute to development of CM@ASML

Context of the position
Since the start of 2017 a Configuration Management (CM) organization is in place within ASML. This organization is governed by the CM Board, with executives across the sectors of ASML. You work together with peer configuration change leaders, product change leaders, project leaders, project members from different sectors, trainers and CM experts. 

Product Change Leader Job Requirements

Education
Bachelor / MSc degree

Experience
At least 5 years’ work experience of which at least  2 years’ experience in new product introductions
Requires combination of specialist (Configuration Management) and project management skills
Appliance of organizational change management techniques
Proven analytical and conceptual skills combined with business senseKnow upstream impact of changes (e.g. logistics, operation, customer support)
Proven experience in managing multiple changes, configurations and their dependencies
Configuration Management certification (CMII module 1-6) is preferred

Personal skills
Natural leader in providing structure, prioritization and decisiveness
Persistent and persuasive towards results in an emphatic and pragmatic manner
Convincing, pro-active attitude and drive for improvement
Sensitive on value of relations: entrepreneur, coalition former,  networker, good facilitator
Create learning situations and give feedback to achieve effective behavior from a team
Strong communicator to influence without power
Eager to learn and ability to self-reflectAdapts and adopts change

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