Manufacturing Excellence Manager SnA

4 days ago

Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Unilever Full time

Function: Supply Chain

Work Level: 2A

Reports to: SnA Head of Supply Chain

Scope: Southern Africa

Location: La Lucia or 61 Katherine Street

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

ABOUT UNILEVER

With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people – we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.

At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don't believe in the 'one size fits all' approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. If you are wanting to have a direct impact on Manufacturing performance, including but not limited to Productivity, Reliability, Cost Improvement, Safety and Quality, then this is the role for you.

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

The Manufacturing Excellence Manager 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 VP Supply Chain for Southern Africa.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

  • Develop and drive WCM programme deployment, including external audits and Awards Management
  • Co-ordinate the self-assessment in preparation for internal & external audits
  • Establish a common approach for implementing UMS in the factories, providing coaching, supporting training activities and providing effective knowledge and best practices transfer across the sites.
  • Standardise UMS similarities and synergies within the plants, developing action plans for each site
  • Provide direct support for the implementation of site improvement plans
  • Research and exploit new continuous improvement tools available in the market
  • Partner with the Africa & Nali Digital Manager on providing digital solutions to embed UMS

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

  • University degree essential – Engineering
  • WCM/TPM/Lean Philosophy training
  • 4-5 years experience in manufacturing, ideally FMCG
  • Unit Manager / Plant Manager experience
  • Appropriate functional / technical expertise.
  • Strong WCM/TPM/Lean background is required
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Continuous improvement experience

Skills

  • Manufacturing Excellence Strategy implementation
  • Financial acumen
  • Performance & Improvement Management Skills
  • Data driven decision making
  • Continuous improvement
  • Delivering through others through building strong partnerships
  • Change Management
  • Strong collaboration
  • Strong leadership skills

Leadership

  • You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team delivers with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
  • You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.
    • Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
    • Stay Three steps ahead - you think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. You are always curious and confident
      ─ anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends to beat the competition.
    • Care deeply - You care deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people's growth and development and our impact on the planet. You care about our performance, to a point where it hurts when you don't win.
    • Deliver with excellence - You deliver everything we do with excellence and pace. You take personal ownership and hold each other to account – always finding a way to do what you said you will do.
    • Focus on what counts - You ruthlessly prioritize what really, really matters, allowing you to do better on fewer things. You set clear and stretching goals and recognize maximum performance impact.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their 'Whole Self' to work and this includes you Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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