Job Vacancies at McCormick & Company

Performance Manager

• This position is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and functional expertise to the Plant for loss analysis, analytics, and training systems. The role supports the Plant Leadership Team in the JTE (Journey to Excellence) strategy focused on building Employee capability, providing data reliability system and driving Employee engagement through implementation of high-performance work systems to achieve exceptional business results. This person will also participate and support the regional CI (Continuous Improvement) forums and programs to roll out in South Africa.
• MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES 

Create visibility to Loss Data

• Lead annual Loss Analysis to support site’s OGSM (Objectives, Goals, Strategies, and Measures) and budget targets
• Help prioritize loss reduction projects in collaboration with the site leadership team
• Provide supporting data analysis and justifications for any technology improvements and capital expenditures and feasibility studies
• Lead site Focused Improvement pillar

Lead site Data and Analytics

• Maintain integrity of site data through training, health checks, and change control. Focus includes scorecards, downtime data base, manual tracking systems and SAP master data.
• Provide analysis and insights to key performance metrics like Process Reliability, Productivity, Yield and Scrap.
• Collate and publish site scorecard every month.
• Create and execute site Analytics strategy.
• Establish scorecard review processes based on the appropriate frequency and participants.
• Drive data-based decision-making behavior at all levels
• Implement Effective Training systems
• Coach site employees and SMEs on the methodology and tools:
• Basic performance data and trends
• Problem solving
• Root cause analysis
• Loss Reduction projects
• Participate on Training and Development Pillar
• Create and maintain site training systems

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline is required
• Minimum of 5 years working in manufacturing operations in FMCG company (preferably in food industry)
• Background in Total Productive Maintenance / Lean, Change Management and Organizational Effectiveness
• Experience in a CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) preferred
• Team and Operations Leadership experience preferred
• Proficiency in Excel and Power BI
• Familiarity with creating reports using our current (and future) BI tools, e.g. SAP Hana, Tableau
• Experience analysing complex datasets, generating insights and building robust statistical models (comfortable working with structured and unstructured data)
• Ability to analyse complex information to make judgments and decisions

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Job Description

• We are currently looking for Sales Coordinator to join our team. Are you a sales professional with proven successful FMCG experience?
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• Commercialisation
• Support the Commercialisation and Commercial Team in the winning and flawless delivery of Flavour Solutions commercialisation projects
• Provides administrative support to Commercialisation Project Manager(s) as they drive Flavour Solutions commercialisation projects forward through the internal cross functions (e.g., R&D, Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Technical, Finance)
• Once trained, independently project manages straightforward “business as usual”, cross-functional commercialisation projects.
• Keeps the Commercialisation Project Manager(s) and other stakeholders informed of progress and aware of any major issues

Commercial

• Support the Key Account Managers with day-to-day administrative tasks, thus assisting the team to focus and deliver on key business and commercial priorities that require KAM’s to lead.
• Provide the Key Account Managers with support on key business cycles including forecasting, cycle meetings, pricing management to help deliver a flawless sales cycle that enables focus and ultimately growth
• Ability to seek feedback across departments on daily, ad-hoc projects/items, which enable the KAM’s to delivery prompt feedback to customers and deliver exceptional overall service to customer.

Marketing & Insights

• Support Marketing & Insights Manager with ad-hoc proactive and reactive customer briefs to deliver ground-breaking innovation and support our customers with leading insights
• Provide administrative and hands-on support for marketing requests to deliver on key projects
• Keeps the Marketing & Insights Manager and other stakeholders informed of progress and aware of any major challenges

Qualifications

• Diploma/ Bachelor’s degree required.
• Corporate experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Working knowledge of SAP is an advantage

Skills & Attributes

• Strong communication skills, able to collaborate effectively across all levels.
• Detail-oriented, persistent, and solution-driven.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Customer-oriented mindset with a professional, service-focused approach.