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Operations Manager - Personal Care

City: Samut Prakan

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

The primary responsibility of the role is to manage both the strategic direction of the Bangplee Personal Care manufacturing function and to maximise the effectiveness of the day-to-day operational performance ensuring safety, productivity, quality, costs, customer services, and maintenance works are achieved. There is also a clear responsibility for the ongoing development and career planning for employees within Personal Care area

The nature of demand from the local markets, complexity of product and in conjunction with NPD make this an result oriented position, with flexibility to re-schedule production capacity or resources to meet customer needs effectively. None of this happens at the cost of quality or regulatory / licence requirement.

Your responsibilities

Personal Care Operation Manager is responsible for delivering PC products in line with global regulatory compliance standards. The level of decision making within this role will have a significant impact on financial performance on the site and potentially the globe. Varied levels of complexity require the MOM to have a breadth and depth of experience both on a strategic and a practical level.

Member of the BLT and site operations management team
Ensure that Personal Care operations remain safe to personnel, contractors and the environment by having an active internals action planning that supports the overall site HSE improvement plan.
Be compliant to relevant ISO requirements, other relevant EHS regulatory and company EHS requirements as required based on role & function responsibility.
Drive the Manufacturing management teams to deliver operational excellence ie. productivity, quality, costs and customer services targets.
Contribute operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality, and resolve problems; complete audits.
Ensure that OEE is maintained, and improvement plans execution and meet the target.
Ensure effective waste reduction plans are in place and delivering results versus targets.
Establish a continuous improvement culture within manufacturing operations to sustain improvement gains.
Lead and develop the team to implement digitalized tool to drive productivity improvement
Define and implement a High Performance Manufacturing operation capable of exceeding ever increasing customer expectations.
Utilise innovative solutions to optimise performance whilst reducing cost.
Analyse and improve organizational process and workflow, employee and space requirements, machine capacity and equipment layout; implement changes.
Continually assess factory performance targets and take action to ensure a favourable positioning against benchmarks and sourcing studies.
Forecast requirements; prepare an annual budget; schedule expenditures; analyse variances; initiating corrective actions.
Ensure the manufacturing management team achieve all quality standards in line with global compliance and in a cost effective manner.
Drive budgetary control through manufacturing efficiencies to provide competitive advantage.
Ensure proper staffing levels for all shifts department, by hiring the appropriate number of employees.
Provide opportunities for the development of the manufacturing teams with particular emphasis on the Monitor process and strengthening the bench.
Create an engaging environment where the team are energised to realise their full potential which always challenge the status quo but work internally and externally to the site mutual benefit.

The experience we're looking for

At least 10 years experience within a supply chain / technical / engineering / manufacturing excellence area.

Experience in management, operations, and leadership or more on senior management positions with 5+ years is preferred

The skills for success

Knowledge of TPM / Six sigma / Lean manufacturing is preferred.
Leadership / Conflict Management / Organization management
Decision-Making / Critical Thinking / Problem solving skills
People Management
Data Processing & Reporting Skills
Deadline-Oriented & Good budget management development
Planning and Organizing
Excellent Communication Skills
Crisis 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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