Regional Manager Manufacturing Excellence and Vertical Start Up

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

In partnership with site leadership teams, the objective is to achieve a culture of manufacturing excellence through the deployment of a structured approach based on TPM/WCM. Develop capabilities in manufacturing and engineering functions, aiming to transform the performance behaviors of the organization, move from reactive to preventive to proactive and predictive. Identify and eliminate losses and wastes to improve efficiency and productivity. Identify and prevent losses and wastes early in new lines and new products through the development of Early Management and Vertical Start-Up systems in the factories.

Your responsibilities

-Develop the capability in all site teams to build the foundation of continuous improvement principles in all operational teams.

-Implement the Global Manufacturing Operating System to drive performance behaviors and cross-functional accountability

-Work closely with regional functions Safety, Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering and Digitalization teams to align critical priorities for each Region. Harmonize performance tracking and reporting, data analysis and processes to improve results. Collaborate with the Finance, Engineering and Digital teams to establish the CAPEX annual plans and roadmaps also the CI budget.

-Track Productivity projects (savings) across Region: Help identifying tactical and strategical projects. Harmonize and consolidate reporting and tracking of execution of Productivity projects.

-Traveling required 50% - Europe. Role based in Hull or Nottingham site, UK.

The experience we're looking for

-Engineering university degree

-Experience as member of the leadership team of a factory

-FMCG industry experience + 8 years in Manufacturing / Operations

-Proven leadership experience of Manufacturing Excellence implementation and oversight in multiple sites

-Experience in leading the implementation from training to results of the pillars AM, PM, QM, E&T, EM, FI standards, systems and routines.

-Competence in leading Problem Solving workshops for specific chronic losses and Kaizen events (e.g., Focused Improvement)

-Proven leadership, interpersonal and communication skills for transforming operations from reactive to preventive and proactive

-Ability to influence SC Directors and Factory leadership teams to change and apply proven ways of working, based on strong collaboration and hands on support to implement systems

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.