Manufacturing Excellence Manager

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Manufacturing​

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

Are you passionate about leading a team towards excellence in one of the most vital sectors of consumer health and hygiene? As Reckitt's Manufacturing Excellence Manager, you'll be the linchpin in our manufacturing operations, ensuring implement our Global Reckitt Production System (RPS) working the Manufacturing Excellence co-leads with the site director the manufacturing excellence program. You will champion the production of high-quality products that meet the needs of millions globally. This role is your opportunity to pioneer innovative solutions and inspire a team dedicated to making a real difference in people's lives.

Your responsibilities

- Manufacturing Operating system: Co-lead the implementation of the Global Manufacturing Operating System(RPS) to performance and gap to target processes.

-Measures and data analysis : ensure consistency and compliance of performance measure and losses definition with global standards. Improve data collection system efficiency and accuracy in collaboration with IT&D team and digital manufacturing Optimize reporting visualization and consolidation to improve gap diagnosis.

-Problem Solving: Diagnose performance gaps and trigger improvement plans acros functions, train, coach and assess problem solving and gap diagnosis capabilities in all functions for sporadic and chronic losses.

-Continuous improvement program: based on TPM/IWS pillars , the program requires to develop functional capabilities (pillars) for performance improvement. Your responsibility is to be an instructor and facilitator, a hands- on change agent, an inspiring leader for excellence across the functions.

-Promote a culture of continuous improvement based on core principles of TPM/WCM/IWS/Lean

-Collaborate with cross functional teams to reduce OEE losses (OEE), reduce waste, reduce energy consumption, reduce quality losses, increase productivity, reduce safety risks ect.

-Manage CI budget and monitor financial results

-Lead strategic initiatives for building own capabilities
- Mentor a talented operators /teams, nurturing a culture steeped in safety, accountability, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with diverse cross-functional teams to ensure seamless operations and swift problem resolution.
- Uphold stringent safety and quality standards, reinforcing a safe and compliant production environment.

The experience we're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering.

-10 years of manufacturing experience, FMCG preferred, including functional manager responsibility

-4+ years working in operations with manufacturing excellence structured program, progressively expanding the system and reaching higher levels of adoption, maturity and therefore results.

-Experience with TPM/WCM/IWS strategy implementation

-Expertise as trainer and coach of TPM/ WCM/IWS methodologies and systems.

-Strong leadership, change management, communication and collaboration skills.

-Experience implementing digital working systems e.g MES, connected worker, Power BI, power

-TPM/ IWS/WCM instructor or similar, pillar leader, program manager, experience in statistical tools.

-Passio for people development, shopfloor excellence and continues improvement.

- A strong leadership presence with a knack for motivating, driving change, and cultivating an ethos of ongoing refinement.
- Exceptional communication and problem-solving, capable of making timely, impactful decisions.
- Familiarity with business partnerships and excelling in collaborative environments.

The skills for success

Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Vendor Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Category Management Expertise, Supply Management, Procurement.

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What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.
We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.