Manufacturing Excellence and Strategy Director

Hello. We’re Haleon . A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

Here in Haleon Dungarvan we are looking for a Manufacturing Excellence and Strategy Director

This position is a strategic position which works across with Directors and Senior Managers to drive teams across the Site Quality Supply Chain with clear purpose of:

Key Responsibilities :

Site Strategy Planning and Execution

• Inspires, coaches and mentors the team to site strategy setting and development.
• Facilitates, develops and executes: A 3-5 year rolling E2E strategy that should include the following:
• Definition and prioritization of critical business needs by leveraging the opportunities and loss matrix.
• A reservoir of improvement opportunities to close the gap between the current state and the vision.
• Roadmap of goals that includes KPIs and KAIs which allow measurement of progress against long-term strategic goals.
• Drives site strategy deployment maturity.

Continuous Improvement Drives HAPs as a system to deliver sustained business performance deploying different elements:

• CI Culture and Capabilities : Owns the CI capabilities framework and leads development program in the plant
• Visual Performance Management : Develop people’s capability to reveal and solve problems to improve business performance
• Focused Improvement : Ability to drive through others change management to drive Continuous Improvement capability and mindset at all levels of the plant (shop floor to SLT)
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM): Implement Value Stream Mapping to see all parts of a process, identify gaps versus the desired state and illustrate the impact various solutions have on the end customer of the product/service
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): Develops and implements the OEE plan to deliver improved efficiencies driving cost reduction, improved agility, E2E LT and inventory reductions.
• Equipment Performance Improvement: Collaboratives with different functions to deploy AM, BDA and FI and can use reliability-based metrics in order to improve/maintain equipment reliability and minimize downtime
• Performance & governance : Supports value stream performance delivery and governance of the site, applying agility and continuous improvement to support production capacity and delivery to meet business requirements.
• Financial Benefit : Delivery the F4G targets of site by coordinating with different functions and stakeholders both on site and in Bus

Change Management and PMO

• Lead the critical business projects governance at site via PMO clearly linked to site strategy and KPIs.
• Create and implement appropriate change management (including communication) plans applying the Haleon Framework and supporting toolkit that maximize employee engagement and manage natural organisational resistance to support change initiatives.
• Facilitate local site PMO governance to ensure resources and funding are focusing on delivering the business strategy in a through a lean and effective framework. Ensure that prioritization is in place for and that the site portfolio maximises return for Haleon.

Why you?

Right now, we’re in start-up mode. Giving those who join us the amazing opportunity to shape our company and the working experience we are building. As well as a restless desire to our achieving our purpose, you’ll also share our commitment to always

do the right thing.

Essential Qualifications & Skills we are looking for:

This role is highly critical to Site success linked to Site Strategy and CI engine; hence this role requires an incumbent who has educational, technical and leadership capabilities to operate in FMCH environment:

Education :

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline

Technical

• Lean /Six Sigma
• Process Improvement and Strong Business Acumen.
• E2E understanding with strong financial knowledge.

Leadership

• Bold leadership -Stretches beyond comfort zone and is obsessed of beating the competition and challenges status quo.
• Deep understanding of consumer and customer and brings outside in
• Is purpose drive and break down barriers, focused on why and the impact
• Inspires others – Is passionate about Haleon purpose, ambition, excites and engages others in the future. Hs strong influencing and interpersonal skills
• Ability to drive growth – Take accountability and is able to work with all levels – senior management, directors and shop floor to deliver commitments.
• Focused in Change management

Why Haleon?

None of us should ever feel like we are standing still. Instead, we want Haleon to be a place where we feel like we are always progressing.

Improving everyday health takes Dedication. Energy. Effort. So we look to reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes but not limited to:

• Annual bonuses that reflect Haleon’s performance
• Hybrid@Haleon – our philosophy to hybrid work and supporting individuals work/life balance
• Childcare support – we offer enhanced maternity and paternity paid leave options for those important times as well as child care options
• Life Insurance and Private Medical Package – with additional preventive healthcare services for employees to provide protection and piece of mind
• Health and Wellbeing - programmes that take care of you physically and mentally
• Development Opportunities - future-ready training, so your skills are always up to date within your role and company’s structure

Care to Join Us?

Apply now to hear more about this role and our journey changing the future of everyday health.

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