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Manufacturing Excellence Manager

City: Lagos-Mainland

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.

Supply

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

This role is responsible for leading the implementation of the global Reckitt Production System, the Manufacturing Excellence Manager leads (with the support site Manager) the manufacturing excellence program. This role is a key member of the lead/management team working under the Head of Manufacturing and collaborates across all levels and functions of the organization to drive capability building, to co-lead with functional managers the implementation and adoption of proven systems and ways of working based on RPS pillars.

Your responsibilities

Measures and data analysis: ensure consistency and compliance of performance measures and losses definitions with global standards, improve data collection systems efficiency and accuracy in collaboration with IT&D team and digital manufacturing. Optimize reporting visualization and consolidation to improve gap diagnosis.
Manufacturing Operating system: Co-lead the implementation of the Global Manufacturing Operating System to manage performance and gap to target processes (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), install leading and lagging indicators. Enable system effectiveness and maturity increase year on year through teams coaching, gemba walks with lead team and functions, shopfloor presence, high-impact operational reviews, recognition and expansion of the right performance behaviors.

Problem Solving: Diagnose performance gaps and trigger improvement plans across functions, train, coach and assess problem solving and gap diagnosis capabilities in all functions for sporadic and chronic losses.
Continuous improvement program: based on RPS 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.
Maintenance: strong collaboration with maintenance manager is required for enhancing PM systems, capabilities, increasing year on year operators and mechanic skills.
Vertical Start Up: strong collaboration with Engineering and Innovation to prevent risks, improve performance and optimize work through early management of CapEx projects and new products innovation.
Promote a culture of continuous improvement
Collaborate with cross functional teams to reduce OEE losses, reduce waste, reduce energy consumption, reduce quality losses, increase productivity, reduce safety risks, etc.
Productivity Project Governance: Facilitate ideation events, monitor productivity projects. Update global productivity tracker.
To identify and deliver service improvement activity across the business through employing process improvement methodologies and the application of innovative thinking.
To work with key business stakeholders, and multi-jurisdictional ‘LEAN champions’, to build a continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing programme of change.

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 a Manufacturing Excellence structured program, progressively expanding the systems 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
Ambition to become manufacturing site director
Passion for people development, shopfloor excellence and continuous improvement
Experience of designing remediation plans to address productivity and efficiency issues, and track record of following through to ensure closure.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of Partners, senior managers, and subject matter experts.
Strong analytical, project and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into operational requirements.

The skills for success

TPM, WCM, IWS, Manufacturing Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, OEE Improvement, Root Cause Analysis, Problem Solving, Value Stream Mapping, Change Management, MES, Power BI, Productivity Improvement, CapEx Project Management

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.

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