Senior Manufacturing Excellence Manager

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As the Senior Manager of Manufacturing Excellence, you will lead the development, alignment, and execution of a factory-wide performance improvement strategy. You serve as the central expert and primary point of contact for Nestlé Continuous Excellence (NCE) within the factory. In this role, you are accountable for driving the NCE implementation strategy, overseeing Focused Improvement (FI) Pillar activities, and managing Industrial Engineering responsibilities to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness across the site.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Develop, align, cascade and execute the Factory Performance Improvement Strategy:

• Co-develop Factory improvement strategy that considers:
• Business priorities
• Loss Analysis / External Benchmarks
• 3 years planned progression of KPI's, People and work place transformation (Factory Vision).
• Gain alignment from the FLT / Key Stakeholders (VPoM) around the 3 years plan and cascade across all factory levels (communication strategy)
  
  

Partner with Factory Leadership Team and Local Leadership Teams to translate the factory improvement strategy into execution Plans to deliver the expected results that include:

• Leads NCE Implementation Strategy; Accountable for FI pillar and Industrial Performance related activities (Problem solving, Project & Stakeholder Management, Loss Intelligence, etc.)
• Assist Factory in establishing the right organization (people and structure - Committees, Pillars, WGs, etc.) to support NCE rollout plan
• Evaluates maturity of key systems and provides feedback to functional / pillar leads
• Other factory key enablers (Digital, CAPEX,..etc)
• Key improvement projects
• Key competency building activities
• External support requirements
  
  

Support the execution of the improvement plan by:

• Ensures proper governance / routines at FLT/LLT levels to track execution progression and improvement sustainability
• Spend time on shop floor to evaluate maturity progression and identify key opportunities.
• Provide guidance and feedback to FLT/LLT and align on corrective actions to adjust execution plans
  
  

Develop Critical Competence within Key Members of Factory

• Develop Factory Leadership Team / Pillar Owners ability to identify opportunities to transform workplace, people, and behaviors to deliver results through GEMBA visits
• Partner with HR / Training & Learning Pillar to establish and evaluate robustness of function/pillar capability plan
• Train and coach Factory Leadership Team / Pillar Owners on needed system competences based on development needs and escalate for external support as needed
• Responsible for development, competence building, and health of Industrial Performance systems & routines, including: Labor utilization studies, data reliability, SAP BOM/Master Data, Planning Rate Reviews, Asset Intensity systems (NSAM), Capacity Utilization, etc.)
  
  

REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM EDUCATION LEVEL:

• Bachelor’s degree (BS) required, strongly preferred in a scientific or engineering field.
  
  

EXPERIENCE:

• 3 - 5 Years Minimum, Preferred 5 Years, of direct production / maintenance floor experience
• 3 - 5 Years’ Experience working with factory management/leadership team
• 3 - 5 Years’ experience of project management, loss intelligence, and advanced problem solving
• 3 - 5 Years Minimum, 5 Years + Preferred, in Goal Alignment, TPM, Lean implementation
  
  

SKILLS:

• Strong leadership in cultural change management & managing multiple complex priorities and business connections
• Experience in developing Line labor standards, Budget preparation/review, and line capability/speed studies
• Success in Leading & Developing cross functional teams
• Advanced knowledge of NCE (TPM, GA, FI, LVS)
• Advanced Problem Solving capabilities (Green Belt Preferred)
• Strong analytical skills (Capacity Analysis, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Change Management
• Strong competence on Continuous Improvement Guide (CIG) and the Organization Structure (OS) framework for Manufacturing
• Strong competence of key Standards (St. 21-908, etc.)
• Project Management competence
• Understanding of Basic Finance & Value Creation
• Knowledge of key data systems (SAP, NSAM, etc.)
  
  

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

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