Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact
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Supply Chain Excellence Lead, Wigston
1. pladis - Home to iconic brands: McVities, GODIVA Chocoalte & Ulker
2. We make sweet & savoury treats for consumers around the world!
3. Are you a talented individual who will help to deliver world class manufacturing operations to a site?
4. Are you looking for a new role that provides you with variety, exciting challenges, growth and development?
Making a difference - How this role contributes to our success
pladis are recruiting for a talented manufacturing professional reporting into the UK & Europe Excellence Lead, who will help to deliver world class manufacturing operations to a site and across the business.
The role is mainly site based but will have a requirement to work alongside the Excellence Central Team to support the establishment of a continuous Improvement culture by reducing non-value adding activities across the site and wider business.
You will be proactive in coordinating the sites support of the Excellence vision, ensuring the site is aligned driving for profitable growth and a standardised approach to Continuous Improvement.
Key Accountabilities & Deliverables
5. Responsibility for facilitating, coaching and developing teams/individuals at all levels on-site (including the leadership team) as part of the implementation and successful application of Lean tools
6. Being an integral part of all Value Stream teams and therefore a key part of delivering Prime, Overhead and budget targets
7. Working closely with the Team Manager's to ensure the ongoing sustainability of Lean tools on site - ensuring that skills levels are maintained and benefits realised
8. Being responsible for driving communications around Lean processes and results across site
9. Being responsible for ensuring that the site's Lean roll out is consistent with the overall Excellence approach
10. Developing and maintaining the Lean Roadmap, Dashboard and driving standardisation. Tracking and reporting of Lean deployment
11. To be the sites key link to the overall program of Excellence, preparing, providing and advocating alignment through best practice sharing
12. The role is not shift based but will require the person to be flexible in supporting the delivery requirement of business / project initiatives
13. Proven ability to facilitate Continuous Improvement Teams across site, in conducting ‘narrow and deep’ interventions aimed at reducing cost
14. Deliver Lean training courses across the site and if required other pladis sites
15. Support Green and Black belt delivery on site through engagement of the correct coaching/training mechanisms
16. Identify, manage and deliver a project(s) which results in a saving (full year) of twice annual EL costs
Skills & Experience
Essential:
17. Proven track record of operating in a Manufacturing / Supply Chain CI culture
18. Strong numeracy and literacy skills
19. Time Management (incl Delegation)
20. Team Motivation/Facilitation
21. Communication - central & site processes
22. Change Management / Sponsorship skills
23. Decision Making and Influencing
24. Effective Project Management
25. Coaching toolkit and knowledge
Desirable:
26. Capex understanding and systems
27. Insights / HPB - understanding and developing behaviours
28. Managing Diversity
29. Commercial Awareness
30. NPD experience and planning
Qualifications:
Essential:
31. Sigma Green Belt
32. BIT level or
33. Maths and English GCSE
Desirable:
34. Sigma Black Belt
35. Degree
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.