About vacancy
Be a part of a revolutionary change!
At our company, we have chosen to do something incredible. We are completely transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose: to pioneer a diverse portfolio of next-generation, reduced-risk alternative products and successfully transition adult consumers to innovative, non-combustible platforms. With massive change comes massive opportunity. If you join us, you will enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions, alongside the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Our success depends on people who are committed to our purpose and have an appetite for progress.
This position is based at our manufacturing division. As the Operational Excellence Manager, you will lead the deployment of a continuous improvement methodology within this division, aiming to enhance people capabilities, achieve significant performance improvements, and drive innovation by increasing organizational reliability and agility.
Your Day-to-Day
? Deployment and Integration: Ensure the integrated and collaborative deployment of strategy to increase engagement and ownership, delivering value through the adoption and improvement of regional and global best practices in a standardized and systematic way.
? Supply Chain and Digital Journey: Lead the end-to-end supply chain and digital journey at the site according to phase progression.
? Communication Strategies: Define and implement internal communication strategies and plans, ensuring both top-down and bottom-up communication approaches in line with the company's objectives.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Safety & Sustainability
? Ensure full compliance with local legislation as well as company policies and practices.
? Adhere to all Environment, Health, and Safety (Sustainability) rules, policies, and practices.
? Ensure safety instruction, traineeship, and knowledge assessment for subordinates as required by applicable legislation.
? Promote a safety-first mindset by demonstrating consistent behaviors and leading by example.
? Ensure the execution of continuous improvement tools, concepts, methodology, and team engagement in sustainability programs.
Quality
? Ensure alignment with global operating standards, promoting sustainable knowledge sharing on continuous improvement tools and methods, standard work processes, daily management systems, and organizational pillars.
Delivery
? Lead the implementation and deployment of Lean manufacturing according to the defined regional strategy to establish an integrated operating system.
? Represent our division in regional meetings and workshops, ensuring local challenges, priorities, and initiatives are integrated into the regional plans.
? Ensure overall accountability and governance of loss elimination deployment and its sustainability within our division.
? Develop our division's strategy and roadmap in line with regional plans to achieve continuous improvement.
? Assess the organization and processes to develop efficient and effective plans.
Cost
? Continuously review best practices and adjust local plans to maximize employee engagement, drive innovation, and increase organizational agility to deliver business results.
? Ensure best practices are recognized, shared, and adopted into division standards.
Morale
? Ensure a proper organization structure, including a robust career path to meet objectives and plans.
? Maintain a pipeline of talent to support continuous improvement efforts and sustain expertise and capabilities.
? Support organizational leaders in driving a continuous improvement culture.
? Coordinate training activities related to initiative deployment.
Internal Communication
? Develop and manage internal communication strategies and systems to ensure alignment with company strategies, objectives, values, and behaviors at our division level.
? Lead and develop the internal communication community to ensure effective use of communication tools and channels.
Who We Are Looking For
? Education: A Bachelor's or Master's degree.
? Experience: At least 5 years of experience in Manufacturing, Quality/LEAN, Product Development, Supply Chain, or other relevant departments.
? Leadership: A minimum of 3 years of experience in managing others.
? Preferred Qualifications: Change Management experience is preferred.
? Skills & Knowledge: Strong understanding of integrated operating systems, lean/continuous improvement methods and tools, manufacturing processes, quality and product portfolio management processes, corporate sustainability practices and standards, supply chain processes, and internal human resources practices and processes.
? Certifications: Six Sigma Black or Green Belt certification is preferred.
? Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S..
Compensation
? Annual Base Salary Range: $150,000 - $200,000
What We Offer
? We offer a competitive base salary, annual bonus (applicable based on level of position), great medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with a generous company match, incredible wellness benefits, and much more!
? Seize the freedom to define your future and ours; we will empower you to take risks, experiment, and explore.
? Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture where everyone's contribution is respected.
? Collaborate with some of the world's best people and feel a genuine sense of belonging.
? Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business whose staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
? Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to improve the lives of consumers by offering better, scientifically-substantiated alternative products.