Career Opportunities at Unilever-(2 Positions)

Main Job Purpose: 

The Manufacturing Excellence Manager is responsible for driving manufacturing excellence across a number of factories, by overseeing the implementation of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) and coordinating the WCM activities.  S/he also builds a regional/cluster WCM master plan, providing WCM coaching , developing and managing WCM skill, and delivering WCM training in Manufacturing and potential within the Supply Chain.

The Manufacturing Excellence Manager has a direct impact on Manufacturing performance which includes but is not limited to Productivity, Reliability, Cost Improvement, Safety and Quality. S/he would interact directly with Sourcing Unit Directors and their teams, functional experts within the business and external consultants and agencies to align on business objectives and deliver projects/initiatives. This role reports to the Africa Manufacturing Excellence Director.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and drive WCM programme deployment, including external audits and Awards Management
• Co-ordinate the self-assessment in preparation for external audits
• Establish a common approach for implementing WCM in the factories, providing coaching, supporting training activities and providing effective knowledge and best practices transfer across the sites.
• Maximize WCM similarities and synergies within the plants, developing action plans for
• Provide direct support for the implementation of site improvement plans
• Research and  exploit new continuous improvement tools available in the market, including a strategy for digital manufacturing as an enabler

Professional Skills:

• University degree essential – Engineering 
• WCM/TPM/Lean Philosophy training

Experience Required:

• 10 years experience in manufacturing, ideally FMCG
• Plant manager/ factory/ operations manager experience
• Appropriate functional / technical expertise.
• Strong WCM/TPM/Lean background is required
• Strong leadership skills
• Continuous improvement experience

Stakeholders:

• Sourcing Unit Directors
• Factory Managers (including support functions)
• Category Technology Directors/Managers
• Category Planning Directors/Managers
• VP SC Category

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Main Job Purpose:

• Deploy and deliver annual plan and financial results including targets on service, costs, productivity, quality, innovation and OSHE
• Recommend  Develop long term site strategic plans to the Regional Category and Supply Chain teams
• Lead site to develop and implement continuous improvement plans to deliver site targets –manufacturing performance management
• Manage and deliver the site’s financial results: annual budgets, sourcing Unit result, conversion costs and create programmes to deliver financial results
• Engage and facilitate the implementation of innovations on site, for products, ways of working, service models and supply chain models
• Propose, agree with Category Technology and implement the necessary capital investments to meet the planned production requirements, safety, environmental and cost targets
• Pursue a site long term plan, including restructuring, re-engineering and retrofitting as agreed by VP SC Category; prioritize and plan resources development and deployment
• Ensure that the technical standards of all manufacturing and non-manufacturing fixed assets are maintained.
• Enable the factory operation to achieve high level of Customer Service at optimal cost
• Support Unilever Manufacturing System (UMS) activities and teams by leading the UMS Steering Committee
• Co-ordinate and direct the factory and co-packer operations to achieve the agreed production plans at the specified product quality with optimum labour, energy and materials utilization.
• Ensure Working Capital management systems are effectively used, and deliver inventory targets set with Regional Category Planning Directors and Regional Supply Management Directors.
• Co-ordinate and direct the quality management in line with QA system and ISO 9000 procedures.
• Lead HR policy deployment and implementation on sites, including management of employee relations.
• Ensure effective local stakeholder management and community issues aligned with Unilever policies
• Guard and ensure the application of all Unilever Policies and governance requirements.
• Lead on initiatives and projects aiming for sites integration and collaborative work along the extended supply chain
• Lead Supply Planning
• Be the statutory head of factory where there is a legal separation

Experience Required:

• 8- 10 Years experience in Supply Chain (Make/Technology, SHE, Quality are must, additionally Plan, R&D an advantage)

Preferred:

• FMCG experience
• Ice-Cream, Dairy, Foods & Refreshment
• Ideally-Factory GCC (in the process of completing or completed)

Contacts:

Internal:

• All SC Departments in Unilever
• CD / BB Team/Finance Department
• Regional Teams (R&D/Category SC/SM)
• HR / Legal/ Corporate Affairs
• Unilever factories and MSO’s

External:

• Material Suppliers
• Engineering, Utility and Equipment Suppliers, Contractors
• 3PL Suppliers, Co-Packers
• Trade Unions
• Local Authorities