Senior Manager, Plant Production Excellence Head

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Responsibilities;

Key objectives:

• Drive continuous improvement effort to reduce production cost, improve quality and productivity, and increase FROT
• Coordinate with Quality to implement long term corrective actions improving/ eliminating quality issues
• Coordinate with Innovation to implement innovation pilots and support transition into mass-production of new innovations
• Streamline communication and alignment between PEx, I&PD, Quality, FM and Production, as well as deployment of best practices across production units

Key duties:

• Provide inputs to PEx strategic and productivity roadmap, and KPI targets
• Contribute to strategic initiatives involving continuous improvement
• Liaise with Production/ I&PD to prioritize initiatives and activities with the Production unit to ensure efficient resources utilization
• Collaborate with Quality, FM, and Production on day-to-day troubleshooting technical related issue; to ensure effectiveness of Fast Response /Defect Resolution and ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner
• Provide feedback on quality and operations issues to I&PD/ AQ to prevent reoccurrence and further improve DFCS and process control
• Drive short-term/ long-term continuous improvement initiatives and best practice defined by Center PEX and endorse the implementation through collaboration with Production and I&PD
• Validate new innovations from I&PD; provide inputs and feedback to feasibility study; support the transition from pilot to mass production
• Agree to changes/ updates of standard time, work instruction, and other manufacturing parameters; ensure effectiveness of the change management process 
• Ensure best practices sharing and standardization across all plants and GBU business partners to deliver best-in-class operations performance
• Coordinate with Finance controller to optimize cost performance; ensure CAPEX/OPEX adherence of new projects

Qualifications;

• Bachelor Degree or higher in Engineering or related field. 
• Experience from large manufacturing, most preferred to Process engineering, Continuous improvement, Project Management and Business strategy
• Drive the solution to most complex business problems  
• Possess the strategic perspective and create sustained results for Pandora (financial, non-financial) 
• Demonstrate ability to make hard decisions, making the right trade-offs 
• Effectively plan and efficiently deliver exceptional work while handling both volume and complexity  
• Is an inspirational leader; practices genuine humility and places the team above their own interests 
• Is self-motivated and hungry enough to work hard; willing to change 
• Is smart about other people; has an ability to lead, manage, motivate, and run own team of future leaders  
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; interact effectively with the organization