Mgr Regional Inplant Central

Sun Chemical Corporation•Minneapolis, MN

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC Group, is a leading producer of packaging and graphic solutions, color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and products for the automotive and healthcare industries. Together with DIC, Sun Chemical is continuously working to promote and develop sustainable solutions to exceed customer expectations and better the world around us. With combined annual sales of more than $8.5 billion and 22,000+ employees worldwide, the DIC Group companies support a diverse collection of global customers. Sun Chemical Corporation is a subsidiary of Sun Chemical Group Coöperatief U.A., the Netherlands, and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, U.S.A. This role is responsible for managing approximately 12 separate customer in-plant sites, overseeing Sun Chemical employees who have day-to-day operational responsibility. This includes personnel, operational, and safety management functions, as well as occasional technical service and customer interaction. The manager will ensure adherence to SOPs for all job functions in a safe and accident-free environment. They will cascade necessary KPIs (internal and customer-driven) to employees and ensure they operate at an expected level of excellence across all in-plant sites.

Requirements

Must be willing to travel up to 60% for customer's site location.
Must have 10 - 15 years of industry experience.
Must possess both strong verbal and written communication skills.
Requires a higher degree of interpersonal skill to be successful.
Strong written communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

Manage multiple individual in-plant operation sites, ensuring adherence to SOPs, audits, and other processes and systems including production, quality, reporting, safety, quality of life (O/T), and training metrics as established by Sun Chemical in-plant guidelines and objectives.
Manage local team and escalate customer-related concerns regarding administrative needs such as ordering, shipping, receiving, pricing, etc.
Maintain managerial awareness of customer successes and challenges, ensuring a Sun solution (competitive barrier) for customer concerns, including advanced use of IT solutions (sf.com) for accurate depiction of customer status in internal communications.
Escalate and identify when RSM and/or sales professionals must be engaged for commercial matters.
Work with CTS representatives and managers to ensure best-in-class product, training, and value-added solutions are available to customer partners.
Ensure all Sun employees work in a safe and accident-free manner pursuant to Sun Chemical training and initiatives.
Plan high-level training and best-in-class SOP to support customer objectives.
Plan the pursuit of continuous improvement goals and objectives.
Plan travel itinerary to maximize efficiency of time and coverage of operations within scope of responsibility.
Meet budgetary guidelines and directives.
Manage and report time and attendance, vacation coverage, and appropriate expenses for individual sites.
Contribute to wise business decisions via auditing functions around investment of Sun Chemical funds for customer CAR/White Paper exercises.