Regional Virtual Site Facilitator- Unilever

Regional Site Facilitator-Unilever

 

 

Unilever's mission is to add Vitality to Life. We meet everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life.
Unilever is among the Top 70 of the Fortune Global 500 Companies. We are also one of the world's leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods in foods, household and personal care products. Our purpose is to meet the everyday needs of people everywhere – to anticipate the aspirations of our consumers and customers and to respond creatively and competitively with branded products and services, which raise the quality of life.

 

Position Summary:
• Reports to Americas Capabilities Manufacturing & Engineering Excellence Director
• Is responsible to implement the Manufacturing Excellence program in Americas, through energizing and facilitating the Virtual sites work streams (SHE, Quality, TPM, Innovation etc) and driving the Virtual site loss eradication program.

 

 

Responsibilities:

·  Position Summary
Please explain in a few sentences the primary purpose of this position and its major objectives. Detail any cross-functional or functional permanent team memberships.
• Reports to Americas Capabilities Manufacturing & Engineering Excellence Director
• Is responsible to implement the Manufacturing Excellence program in Americas, through energizing and facilitating the Virtual sites work streams (SHE, Quality, TPM, Innovation etc) and driving the Virtual site loss eradication program.
• Is the Manufacturing expert to drive the Virtual ways of working within the Manufacturing networks around the virtual sites.
Il. Position Responsibilities (Expected Work)
Please list four to six of the major responsibilities of this position in order of importance. State for each what the impact of the responsibility is on the department, division and/or company. Detail process step numbers from Process Dictionary
• Strategy into Action: Deploy the Manufacturing Excellence targets from Regional Strategic plans to individual sites and support their implementation through Virtual sites.
• Benchmarking: Deploy though training and systems implementation a limited number of KPI’s to set targets and monitor performance against. Define scope for benchmarking process and execute it through Virtual Sites (e.g. data collection, improvement plan and continuous monitoring)
• TPM: Co-ordinate the TPM activities within the Virtual sites such as losses teams and self assessments; monitor then Award process for a particular Virtual site.
• Virtual site: facilitate virtual sites through coordination/leadership of work-streams accordingly with the Sia established.
Ill. Challenges
• Describe the nature and the variety of the challenges and problems which are regularly faced in the position. List key interdependencies with other jobs. Provide three to six examples.

• Lead cross-functional teams and multicultural teams;

• Negotiate to best advantage by clarifying objectives, effective planning and the use of appropriate techniques;

• Influence and obtain commitment from senior management and peers to the manufacturing agenda within local and regional Product groups;

• Develop and manage Manufacturing skill base without line authority over the people;

• Manage implementation of programs in the business without direct report resources;

• Finding the balance between staying connected / engaged in delivering the business targets and not being consumed by daily process activities he/she will be involved with the internal customers.
• Being able to effectively transfer knowledge across plants and Virtual Sites to leverage business results delivery.
IV. Scope

Indicate important data applicable to this position which best describes its effect on the business. For example, size of the business, number of people, types of systems, budget responsibility.
• Supports Manufacturing activities across up to 10 factories in Americas.
• Direct impact on Manufacturing performance KPI’s improvement regionally such as plant efficiency, capacity utilization, VIP program (5% of production cost)
• Usually tends to work collaboratively/ interdependently in cross-business teams.
• Interacts directly with Product Group senior stakeholders (Supply Leaders) and functional experts within the business.
V. Skills & Competencies
Please indicate the minimum skills and competencies required to capably perform in the position.  
(Identify from Professional Skills Dictionary – required at fully operational)
General: Knowledge and Information management Need to be able to develop and transfer effectively improvement cases and skills from one plant to another and within Virtual sites.
SC Make: Driving Production Performance and Improvement Need to be able to identify manufacturing performance gaps, analyze and determine root causes for losses, develop feasible action plans drive improvement.
General: Business Process Design & Management
Need to be able to drive sensible target setting, aligned with PG strategies and Manufacturing Excellence ambitions. Also must be able to draw applicable frameworks for virtual ways of working.

 

 

Education:Education University degree preferred – Engineering, however experience and proven track record may substitute 5 years experience in general business. Appropriate functional / technical expertise.TPM, Planning and Manufacturing awareness is required. Financial awareness is desirable.

 

Requirements:

 Competencies Required for Success
(Please identify the 2 to 4 competencies most important to this position)
Breakthrough Thinking Must be able to find new ways of tackling manufacturing performance and change the current paradigm in order to drive new value for Unilever from the external insights as well as leveraging North America and Latin America best practices. Holding People Accountable Must be able to establish a relevant agenda, clearly articulate expectations and follow up to achieve the substantial manufacturing performance improvements within the Virtual sites work streams. Organization awareness Need to be able to identify the key stakeholders, understand issues and develop course of actions that promote positive behaviors and healthy tensions, preventing unnecessary conflicts and relationship management waste. Strategic Influencing Needs to be able to push forward ideas and new ways of working that drive manufacturing performance through the Virtual Site framework. Please provide any additional pertinent information to complete this profile. Role requires knowledge on Manufacturing operation and its impacts on the Supply Chain.Top performers will possess substantial understanding and expertise within manufacturing to drive performance improvement. The ability of managing and driving development of more than one RVS will determine the grade of the position.

 

Unilever offers a competitive compensation package which includes: Medical & Dental Plans, Life Insurance, including spouse & children; Health Care Flexible Spending, Dependent Care, Retirement & Savings Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Vacation and Holidays.

 

 

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or call 888 775 0389

 

Unilever is an equal opportunity employer. It prohibits discrimination based on age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, veteran status and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

 

Employment is subject to verification of pre-employment drug-screening results and background investigation.