Manager – Manufacturing Excellence, Foods India Supply Chain – Manufacturing

Manager - Manufacturing Excellence & Digital Transformation
Manager – Manufacturing Excellence, Foods India Supply Chain – Manufacturing
Foods India operates across a diverse manufacturing network, requiring consistently high standards of Safety, Quality, Service, Cost and Sustainability , while continuously improving productivity and building future-fit manufacturing capabilities.
TheManager – Manufacturing Excellence, Foods India will play a pivotal role in accelerating the manufacturing excellence journey across the Foods network.
The role will bring together Manufacturing Excellence, UMS, productivity, capability building and technology-enabled improvement to create a more competitive, agile and resilient manufacturing network.

• Manufacturing Excellence & UMS

Lead the Manufacturing Excellence agenda across Foods India and accelerate deployment and maturity of Unilever Manufacturing System (UMS).
Establish a strong continuous-improvement culture focused on systematic identification and elimination of manufacturing losses.
Strengthen performance management and problem-solving routines across factories.
Drive sharing and replication of best practices across the Foods manufacturing network.

• Productivity & Cost Competitiveness

Build and drive the manufacturing productivity roadmap across the Foods network.
Identify structural opportunities across labour, assets, conversion cost, waste and manufacturing processes.
Partner with factory leadership and Finance to create robust improvement pipelines and translate identified opportunities into sustainable business results.
Establish benchmarking across sites and use internal/external best practices to raise manufacturing performance.

Develop a common framework for manufacturing performance and loss intelligence across Foods sites.
Drive structured interventions on chronic losses and performance gaps.
Strengthen the use of data analytics and data-driven decision making in manufacturing.
Enable factories to move from reactive issue resolution towards predictive and preventive performance management.

• Technology, Digital & Automation

Partner with Engineering, Digital and site teams to identify opportunities where digital technologies, automation and analytics can unlock manufacturing value.
Build scalable use cases around productivity, reliability, quality, process control and shop-floor decision making.
Ensure successful solutions are standardized and replicated across the network.
Support development of the future-fit digital manufacturing capability within Foods.

Drive initiatives that improve manufacturing responsiveness while balancing service, inventory and controllable cost.
Partner with Planning and factories to strengthen operating flexibility and responsiveness to changing business requirements.
Identify opportunities to increase flexibility of assets, processes and operating models.

• Capability Building & Community

Build Manufacturing Excellence capability across site leadership and manufacturing teams.
Develop practitioners and champions in UMS, problem solving, loss elimination and data-driven manufacturing.
Create an active Foods Manufacturing Excellence community to accelerate cross-site learning and replication.
Coach teams in structured problem solving and sustainable improvement.

Partner closely with Sourcing Units, Engineering, Planning, Quality, SHE, Finance, Procurement and Digital/IT to deliver the Manufacturing Excellence roadmap.
Connect manufacturing improvement priorities with the broader Foods Supply Chain strategy.
Influence stakeholders across factories and central functions to accelerate execution and remove barriers.

Sourcing Unit Heads and Factory Leadership Teams

Strong manufacturing/operations experience with a demonstrated understanding of factory performance.
Experience in Manufacturing Excellence, Continuous Improvement, UMS/WCM/Lean or equivalent performance-improvement systems.
Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
Ability to translate factory losses and operational data into actionable improvement programmes.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across factory and central teams.
Ability to operate across multiple sites and drive improvement through influence rather than direct authority.
Strong bias for action, execution and sustainable results.

Experience across one or more of manufacturing, engineering, operations excellence, digital manufacturing or supply-chain transformation.
Exposure to automation, digital manufacturing and manufacturing analytics.
Experience leading cross-functional transformation programmes.
Engineering / Supply Chain / Operations education; postgraduate management qualification would be an advantage.

The successful candidate should demonstrate

Connect manufacturing improvement opportunities to business and Supply Chain priorities.
Relentlessly identify and eliminate losses.
Mobilise factory and functional teams behind a common agenda.
Convert operational data into insight and action.
Challenge established ways of working and embed sustainable new practices.
Build capability rather than creating dependency on a central team.
Translate ideas into measurable improvements on the shop floor.

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