Senior Manager - Production Services
About The Position
The Senior Manager leads the Food & Burt’s Production Services team within the Food/Burt’s Technical Services organization. The team delivers technical support and projects across the Food & Burt’s businesses, including cost savings, supply assurance, brand maintenance, qualifications, quality improvements, innovation support, and technical issue resolution. The role develops team members’ technical and leadership capabilities and builds effective partnerships with PSO, R&D, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, and external manufacturers. The position sets multi-year technical capability strategy for Food & Burt’s, leads Production Services standard work across both business units, and represents the business unit in enterprise forums such as the Production Services Community of Practice. The team provides technical expertise across products, packaging, processes, manufacturing systems, external manufacturers, specifications, enterprise systems, and qualifications. Its work includes packaging material design and specifications, process and formulation troubleshooting, innovation implementation, data analysis, specification development, laboratory testing, manufacturing line trials, process and equipment support, and cross-functional problem solving. The role owns the Food & Burt’s Production Services portfolio, including personally leading complex, business-critical, or high-risk initiatives. It directs multi-site and multi-business-unit technical programs; establishes priorities, action plans, trial plans, decision gates, risk mitigation, and problem-solving standards; and supports planning, qualification, implementation, start-up, and post-launch stabilization. The position is based in Alpharetta, Georgia, or Durham, North Carolina, with in-office work three days per week under the Hybrid 2.0 Policy.
Requirements
- Experience leading and developing technical professionals across process, packaging, and manufacturing responsibilities.
- Ability to lead a team of up to six direct and indirect reports; the typical number of direct reports is four to six.
- Technical expertise in packaging, process equipment, enterprise systems, qualifications, quality systems, and technical troubleshooting.
- Ability to manage project prioritization and resource allocation across multiple business units, sites, external manufacturers, and projects.
- Ability to direct complex, multi-site, multi-business-unit technical programs and manage risks, trials, decision gates, and structured problem solving.
- Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and influence business and functional leadership decisions.
- Ability to ensure spending controls meet the T&E budget.
- Must be located in Alpharetta, GA, or Durham, NC, and work in the office three days per week.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Food & Burt’s Production Services team in delivering technical support and key PSO and business-critical projects.
- Own succession planning and bench strength for key Production Services roles; develop ready-now successors and future technical capability.
- Lead and develop technical professionals supporting process, packaging, and manufacturing, including career-development discussions for the team and broader PSO.
- Serve as a member of the Food/Burt’s Technical Leadership Team, evaluating personnel moves, organizational design, capability gaps, technical needs, and resource requirements.
- Partner with functional and business stakeholders, including Manufacturing, Engineering, GSS, Quality, R&D, Operations, and external manufacturers.
- Prioritize projects and allocate resources across business units, sites, external manufacturers, and projects to meet business requirements and customer expectations.
- Set multi-year technical capability strategy for Food & Burt’s and lead Production Services standard work across both business units.
- Represent the business unit in enterprise forums, including the Production Services Community of Practice.
- Own the Food & Burt’s Production Services portfolio and personally lead complex, business-critical, or high-risk initiatives.
- Influence operating and functional leadership teams to make decisions, align priorities, define project scope, provide direction, and understand risks.
- Lead packaging and process workstreams through planning, qualification, implementation, start-up support, and post-launch stabilization.
- Provide technical support for packaging materials and process interfaces, including materials and equipment readiness, manufacturing capability, external manufacturer alignment, trials, and process validation.
- Direct large, complex, multi-site and multi-business-unit technical programs, setting priorities, action plans, trial plans, decision gates, risk mitigation strategies, and structured problem-solving standards.
- Develop and maintain specifications, manufacturing-readiness documentation, change-management records, technical knowledge, and cross-functional communications to protect supply continuity, quality, cost, compliance, food safety, and manufacturing stability.
- Ensure delivery of cost savings, supply assurance, brand maintenance, quality, plant, external manufacturing, and technical issue-resolution initiatives in alignment with business direction.
- Ensure spending controls are in place to meet the T&E budget.
- Apply technical expertise in packaging, process equipment, enterprise systems, qualifications, quality systems, and technical troubleshooting.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- Market-leading 401(k) program with company match
- Flexible time off benefits, including half-day summer Fridays depending on location
- Fertility and adoption benefits
- Participation in Clorox incentive plans, subject to applicable plan terms and policies
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
