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Associate Value Stream Director
JiaxingRemoteFull-time
AI Summary
The Associate Value Stream Director leads supply chain and manufacturing operations at a Mars facility in Jiaxing, China, driving strategy deployment, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration to meet production, safety, and budget targets.
About this role
Job Description:
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.
Skills
6-sigma Black BeltBudget ImplementationContinuous Productivity ImprovementCross-Functional CollaborationEquipment ReliabilityFactory LeadershipGMPHACCPLeanMars QMP SystemMRPIIMSE SystemPDCAPresentations And Recommendations To Senior ManagementSiG Energy SavingSupply Chain ManagementTPMWQMS
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