Process and Packaging Manager at Unilever

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

Management of manufacturing operation in the Savoury factory to ensure product quality and delivery in a safe environment during the day to day operations achieved at minimum cost as defined in the Operations Plan.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Coordinate all production activities in the plant through shift leaders
• To continually monitor, analyze and control parameters for cost effectiveness and ensure that objectives set for these parameters are met: PQCDSM
• Ensures integration of UMS methodology and strategy as well as facilitation of best-proven practice in the factory, viz: AM, PM,FI,QM etc
• Drive autonomous-based maintenance of equipment
• To maintain high standards of discipline and minimize organizational loss time
• Establish and maintain optimum manufacturing process conditions, and take action in the event of deviations
• Provide coaching and training for teams to drive capability development via capability development route.
• Support Sales and Operations Planning process and ensure Service levels are not compromised.
• Conduct Tier 1 Performance Review for the shift, generates action logs and follow up to a logical conclusion.
• Plan and implements training schedule for the process operations team.
• Implements and sustain process operations day by day work order closure
• Ensure Product and Process mastery is retained to ensure we do not lose capability.
• Retaining talent is non-negotiable.

Key Interfaces:

• Factory Manager
• Supply Planner
• Factory Engineer, Quality Lead
• Finance Business Partners
• HR Business Partner
• Regional Teams

Relevant Skills:

• B.Sc. Engineering or Sciences
• Supply Chain Experience (Make/Plan)
• Minimum 5 years experience  FMCG/ Food or Savoury category
•  Experiencing working with SAP is not negotiable
• Storytelling, data visualising and presentation skills
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint Skills
• Professional To be Fluent in English

Leadership Behaviours:

• Have passion for high performance and ability to drive business performance using insight to drive decision.
• Have strong process design and optimisation skills , being able to design and re-engineer core process flows with effective control.
• Have demonstrated stakeholders’ management skills to ensure maintaining great relation with people having impact and interest in your job
• have ability to clearly prioritise work for effective job delivery.
• Have effective communication skills enabling to produce creative, compelling content that engages the audience to make impact and influence
• Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and learning through change.