US Ice Cream Associate Director, Manufacturing Excellence

Unilever • Englewd Clfs, NJ

238d

About The Position

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We're on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company. A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream. The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers' businesses. Growing our people's careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments - and having fun doing it. With 19,000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall's, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry's, loved in 76 countries, we are the world's largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025. We dream big but keep things simple to act fast. If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you!

Requirements

• University degree in Engineering preferred.
• 5 years' experience in Supply Chain Management of which minimum 3 in manufacturing.
• Appropriate functional/technical expertise.
• Strong continuous improvement program (Lean/6Sigma/TPM/WCM/R2S/UMS) background with strong achievements.

Nice To Haves

• Analytical thinking.
• Stakeholder management.
• Communication, negotiation, influencing skills.
• Capability to influence and challenge Sourcing Unit leaders.

Responsibilities

• Be a servant leader to the factories and support them in the deployment of the Global Manex Strategy for the Ice Cream company.
• Support the factory to develop Factory Masterplan in coordination with Finance, BG Mid/Long term planning, Engineering, Digital, HR.
• Support factories with proper program rollout and implementation, activities, and projects of the pillars (technical and managerial for foundation and advanced).
• Support the factory teams on waste governance; develop waste improvement glidepath covering all waste levers.
• Support factory teams to develop the cost budget and control the cost by Weekly Cost Governance and Zero-Based Budget.
• Support factory teams to identify saving projects to meet the targeted production cost and manufacturing waste.
• Expand the loss management framework beyond Manufacturing and have KPIs for interfaces with Manufacturing (OR losses).
• Support the factory to develop and implement a digital roadmap and industry 4.0 use cases to accelerate performance.
• Own the rollout of the continuous improvement program in the factories, perform gap analysis, support teams to create improvement plans.
• Facilitate Tools and Methods (toolkits) to attack the major losses supporting and maintaining the standardization across the BU.
• Drive asset efficiency (OEE) aligned with run2standard.
• Support the deployment of MMP standards set up and coherent application.
• Analyze and report continuous improvement savings through Cost Deployment.
• Facilitate timely and accurate reporting of site performance KPIs OEE, Waste and Manhour per ton.
• Deliver trainings (classroom and the shopfloor) and coaching for pillar leaders/members on UMS logic and pillar steps.
• Facilitate discussion on resource allocation when required between BU and SU (Factory) leaders.
• Scale specific factory's solutions (best examples/practices and assessment findings) across the other sites and other capabilities.
• Support and maintain standardization across the BU.
• Implement improvement via technology hubs wherever active.
• Drive digital factory program for level 1 and level 2.
• Act as the primary point of contact for RTVA, MDCS data reporting systems, deployment of global apps DFOS, BuildApp, SPC and NGTW.
• Support BG and BU engineering for level 3 and level 4 solutions in terms of impact on operations and business results.
• Provide support and coaching to project team(s) as project moves through the EEM Steps.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Food Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree