Associate Value Stream Director

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the histories, the practices, assess the strengths and opportunities of the current operation strategies and executions to join strategy definition in site-level and deploy to department goal and plans
• Initiate organization activities in line with business strategy to develop simple, efficient capable organization in Mars way
• Ensure operations to meet supply demand request.
• Work with Safety Committee to ensure safety compliance, promote safety culture and establish safety working environment for all associates
• Produce high quality products with guidance of Mars QMP system and local regulations
• Deliver on time service with cooperation with cross-functional teams
• Embed MSE system and tools to drive continuous productivity improvement.
• Drive PDCA improvement cycle for business results and capability grow.
• Accountable for MCC (from raw material to finished product), manage the supply operation budget, ensure budget implementation in cost efficiency way
• Drive energy saving to realize SiG
• Recruit develop associates in Mars ways to build up healthy talent pipeline.
• Develop and maintain work atmosphere with trust, innovation, teamwork, high morale associate’s ownership and accountability to cultivate associates engagement.
• Operation system/standard build maintain and continuous optimization.
• Work with technical team to ensure equipment reliability.
• Works with factory management team with effective communication to collaborate with each other to achieve factory goals.

Job Specifications/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in Science or Engineering
• Formal training or certification in 6-sigma (Black Belt), or TPM, or Lean.
• 8+ years of Supply Chain experience in a food or other FMCG manufacturing facility
• Minimum 3 years in factory as manufacturing manager for a large production/manufacturing operation
• Experience of leading a large production operation and being part of the factory leadership team
• Experience with facilitating and training various teams on continuous improvements.
• Preparing and delivering presentations and recommendations to senior management
• Strong business acumen built through cross functional team a factory assignments
• Developing relationships with peers and front-line associates
• Incumbent needs to understand the mechanical operation, industrial safety, the Manufacturing Resource Planning II (MRPII). Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and HACCP and WQMS.