OPEX Manager Service Lifecycle Management

Location: 

Uzwil, St. Gallen, CH, 9240

Work Site:  Hybrid
Duration:  Permanent / Unlimited
Date:  Jul 12, 2025

Two billion people eat food every day that was produced with Bühler equipment. One billion people drive vehicles whose parts were manufactured with our machines.​ Bühler aims to balance humanity, nature, and the economy in every decision as it develops solutions that unlock sustainable business opportunities in the global food, feed, and mobility industries. We strive to create innovations for a better world, with a special focus on healthy, safe, and sustainable solutions. Therefore, we team up with customers, start-ups, multinationals, and academia to accelerate impact together.

Summary

As a Global OPEX Manager for Service Lifecycle Management, your main responsibility is to lead the introduction of processes and tools for Service Lifecycle Management, and to develop and manage the data strategy related to customer installations. Your focus will be on enhancing data quality, efficiency, productivity, and overall performance through the development and implementation of continuous improvement strategies, methodologies, and initiatives. By leveraging best practices, data analysis, and process optimization, the Global OPEX Manager aims to reduce waste, improve quality, and increase the effectiveness of service delivery, ultimately contributing to the organization's competitiveness and customer satisfaction.

Job Responsibilities

  • You collect and define business requirements for the Customer Installation Frame to effectively capture and store customer installation data (process, equipment, software, services) throughout the entire lifecycle of customer assets
  • You define, document, and implement processes to update customer installation information, ensuring all changes are accurately reflected across the asset lifecycle—including transactions, service agreements, and service projects—not only for new Greenfield projects, but also for our existing Ibase
  • You ensure the provision, accuracy, and accessibility of relevant customer installation data essential for supporting and optimizing all service processes
  • You define business requirements and lead, as a Product Manager in the agile SAFe Framework, the development and implementation of a Service Lifecycle Management Tool—in close collaboration with the CRM Project Team
  • You roll out and implement the Service Lifecycle Management tool to the respective roles within the global service organization
  • You collaborate with cross-functional teams (Service, Sales, IT, Product Management, Operations) to align requirements and processes with organizational and customer needs
  • You maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for requirements, processes, and systems to support knowledge sharing and ongoing process development

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, or a comparable discipline
  • Proven experience (3+ years) in Service Lifecycle Management, Operational Excellence, Business Process Management or a similar function
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate business needs into actionable solutions
  • Effective and convincing communication in English, both verbally and written

At Bühler we are not only offering working opportunities and international exchange of like-minded professionals. We are more than just a global company. Our value proposition to transform the way companies feed and move the world, is driving positive change in the industries in which we operate globally. Become a part of a dynamic environment that combines your drive for innovation with a world ​of possibilities.​ Joining us means embracing a shared purpose of creating innovations for a better world while becoming part of a company that is dedicated to your success.

As a global organization, we embrace the diversity of our global workforce. At Bühler, you will collaborate with professionals from around the world, each bringing in a unique perspective to the table. It is a business priority for us to harness the diversity of our global workforce and include them in their uniqueness to create a culture of belonging guided by our TOP values – Trust, Ownership and Passion. Embark on a journey that combines the excitement of global collaboration with the reassurance of a welcoming workplace.

Let’s create impact together!