Continuous Improvement Manager - Manufacturing

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

Responsible for leading the implementation of the global Reckitt Production System (RPS), the Continuous Improvement (CI) Manager co-leads with the site director the manufacturing excellence program, responsible for enabling and monitoring the improvement of performance and therefore productivity.

This role is a key member of the lead team working under the Site Director, and collaborates across all levels and functions of the organization to drive capability building, adoption of proven ways of working based on TPM or WCM and achieve results progression year on year.

Your responsibilities

Process Improvement:

• Analyze and enhance production systems and processes for continuous improvement, for example, optimize maintenance and production planning in collaboration with functional managers.
• Enhance people capabilities in line with operational excellence.
• TPM / WCM Initiatives: Leader of TPM / WCM pillars. Promote a culture of continuous improvement based on core principles of TPM / WCM / Lean.
• Leader and facilitators of performance reviews.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to reduce OEE losses (OEE), reduce waste, reduce energy consumption, reduce quality losses, increase productivity, reduce safety risks, etc.  

Capability building:

• Coaching teams
• Development of functional capabilities to achieve cross-functional objectives
• Manage CI budget and monitor financial results.

Data Analysis: Collect, integrates and analyze production data, provides high visibility of KPIs, gap to target, performance trends, sporadic and chronic loses. Manage data integrity and operational metrics.

Project Management: Manage multiple projects, ensuring timely and on-budget completion. Define project scope and communicate updates to senior management.

Documentation & Compliance: Document process changes, ensure compliance with standards. Review and update SOPs.

Change Management: Develop strategies for RPS and productivity projects deployment. Lead change initiatives, aligning with organizational goals.

Stakeholder Engagement: Integrate lean principles with various departments. Train and support employees in continuous improvement.

Productivity Project Governance: Facilitate ideation events, monitor productivity projects. Update global productivity tracker.

The experience we're looking for

• manufacturing experience, including functional manager responsibility
• working in operations with a Manufacturing Excellence structured program, progressively expanding the systems and reaching higher levels of adoption, maturity and therefore results.
• Experience with TPM/WCM strategy implementation
• Expertise as trainer and coach of TPM / WCM methodologies and systems
• leadership, change management, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience implementing digital working systems.
• TPM / WCM Instructor or similar, pillar leader, program manager, experience in statistical tools

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.