Job Position: Manufacturing Excellence Manager
Function: IC - BU Supply Chain Teams
WL: WL2C

Unilever is currently hiring for a Manufacturing Excellence Manager based in Valinhos
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. We are looking for talents that would like to join this exciting journey with us.
BU Manufacturing Excellence Manager is reporting to IC Global Head of Engineering and Man Ex and is part of BU SC Extended LT. BU Man Ex manager is accountable for the factory results and will be responsible to lead the entire continuous improvement program.
The Man Ex Manager plays a crucial role in enhancing manufacturing performance, including areas such as waste reduction, operational reliability (OR), overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), Man Ex savings, cost efficiency, manhours per ton, safety, health, environment (SHE), and quality improvements. He/She develops and implements a continuous improvement program for the Business Unit (BU), aligned with the Business Group’s manufacturing strategy and the BU and site priorities. This role involves providing continuous improvement coaching to sourcing units, developing and managing manufacturing skills, and delivering training.

What you can expect from the role?

Business Impact:

• Leadership: Be a servant leader to the factories and supporting them in the deployment of the Global Manex Strategy for the Ice Cream company.
  

• Masterplan : Support the factory to develop Factory Masterplan in coordination with Finance, BG Mid/Long term planning, Engineering, Digital, HR.
  

• Continuous Improvement program: support factories with proper program rollout and implementation, activities, and projects of the pillars (technical and managerial for foundation and advanced).
  

• Manufacturing Waste : Support the factory teams on waste governance; Support teams to develop waste improvement glidepath covering all waste levers.
  

• Cost Governance : Support factory teams to develop the cost budget and to control the cost by Weekly Cost Governance and Zero-Based Budget.
  

• Savings : Support the factory teams to identify saving projects to meet the targeted production cost and manufacturing waste.
  

• Reliability : Expand the loss management framework beyond Manufacturing and have KPI´s for interfaces with Manufacturing (OR losses)
  

• Digital transformation: support the factory to develop and implement a digital road map and industry 4.0 use cases to accelerate performance.
  

Continuous Improvement Program

• Own the roll out of the program (for foundation and advanced) in the factories, perform gap analysis, supports teams to create improvement plan; facilitate assessments with global teams.
  

• Tools and Methods : Facilitate Tools and Methods (toolkits) to attack the major losses supporting and maintaining the standardization across the BU.
  

• OEE : Drive asset efficiency (OEE) aligned with run2standard.
  

• Performance reporting : Support the deployment of MMP standards set up and coherent application. Analyze and report continuous improvement savings through Cost Deployment. Facilitates timely and accurate reporting of site performance KPIs OEE, Waste and Manhour per ton.
  

• Learning : Deliver trainings (classroom and the shopfloor) and coaching for pillar leaders/members on UMS logic and pillar steps when relevant to ensure capability building across the sites.
  

• Resources : facilitate discussion on resource allocation when required between BU and SU (Factory) leaders (part of the Masterplan agenda)
  

Benchmarking/Best Practice Sharing/Technology and Process Convergence

• Scaling BPs : Scale specific factory’s solutions (best examples/practices and assessment findings) across the other sites and other capabilities (SHE - Quality - Agility). Develop action plans for effective knowledge and best practices transfer.
  

• Standardization : Supporting and maintaining standardization across the BU.
  

• Technology Platforms : Implement the above improvement via technology hubs wherever active
  

Digital

• Descriptive and Diagnostic : Drive digital factory program for level 1 and level 2. Act as the primary point of contact for RTVA, MDCS data reporting systems, deployment of global apps DFOS, Build App, SPC and NGTW. The focus will be on enabling our manufacturing sites to deploy appropriate, standardized technologies and ensure consistency in deployment and associated benefit delivery.
  

• Predictive and Prescriptive : Support BG and BU engineering for level 3 and level 4 solutions in terms of impact on operations and business results.
  

Technology

• Purpose of investment - Early alignment (Idea Phase) with BG and Engineering on projects to leverage EEM.
  

• EEM Methodology - Ensure project team has appropriate training on EEM and UMS methodology and apply project classification to identify right tools and methods.
  

• Front loading concept - Provide support and coaching to project team(s) as project moves through the EEM Steps (focus on EEM step 1,2,3) to deliver Safety, AM, PM, Q step 1-2-3 and digital tools on day 1.
  

People

• Continuous improvement culture: Ensure that Man EX activities are impacting both results and the culture change towards the vision as determined by zero loss mindset.
  

• Resources : support sites with Master plan Organization element and resource gap closure .
  

• Upskilling & reskilling : Support skills development (upskilling and reskilling) of white and blue-collar workers
  

• Training : Deliver and coordinate appropriate training for the trainer training (theory and practical application) involving continuous improvement.
  

• Factory Operating System : Standardize factory governance systems across region in line with FOS (R2S - Factory Operating System) elements and audit effectiveness
  

People Management

• Direct Reports : Based on the complexity (multiple BGs covered by same BU Man EX manager) and based on the scale (number of factories, technology complexity and volume) direct reports with responsibilities on data collection, reporting, process improvement, training, digital can be assigned.
  

Does this sound like you?

Professional Skills:

• University degree– Engineering preferred.
  
• Advanced Portuguese, Spanish and English
  

Soft Skills:

• Analytical thinking.
  
• Stakeholder management.
  
• Communication, negotiation, influencing
  
• Capability to influence and challenge Sourcing Unit leaders
  

Experience Required: (ESSENTIAL)

• 5 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management of which minimum 3 in manufacturing.
  
• Appropriate functional/technical expertise.
  
• Strong continuous improvement program (Lean/6Sigma/TPM/WCM/UMS) background (with strong achievements).
  
• Experience working at Latam / Brazil location.
  
• Experience with ICE will be a plus.
  

Travel: Travel will be required (approx. 40%) however this is expected to be regional

Why Unilever?
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.

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