A day in the life of a Manufacturing Excellence Manager:

• Ensures the right cascading of priorities and measures from the Market to the factory.
• Ensure Data integrity for the factory, Bill of Materials, Physical Standards and Master Recipe.
• Defines and embeds NCE projects and initiatives into the Factory objectives and align Factory Leadership Team towards the plan.
• Establishes Factory governance to ensure that NCE implementation contributes to deliver business results.
• Prioritize the improvement efforts based on loss analysis.
• Promotes and supports cross-fertilization of Manufacturing best practices, knowledge, standards, and improvements across the factories.
• Ensures an overall understanding of the different NCE methodologies (pillars) within the Factory Leadership Team, functions and how they integrate through the NCE implementation plan avoiding silo working.
• Conducts specific projects to support results improvement around priorities established by the Factory.
• Understands and ensures together with Factory Cost controller n overall competence of Costing Standards for Manufacturing.
• Links with Market Excellence manager within a Market/Category to drive NCE in manufacturing.

What will make you successful?

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering, Food Science or Business Management
• 2+ years’ experience in a similar role.
• Intermediate to advance understating of SAP, BW reports.
• Prior experience as IP analyst and Pillar coordinator.
• DMAIC Certified, at least to White Belt level.
• Experience within a network organization (internal and external providers).
• Proficiency in English and language of the market (where applicable).
• Experience as a data analyst.
• Language Proficiency: English and Afrikaans will be an added advantage