HC GA Manufacturing Excellence and Digital Lead

Job Title: HC GA Manufacturing Excellence and Digital Lead

Location: Thailand/Vietnam

Main Job Purpose
The HC GA Manufacturing Excellence and Digital Lead reports to the Home Care Head of Supply Chain GA & Head of Supply Chain TH and is a member of the Homecare Greater Asia Supply Chain leadership team. S/he will coordinate all UMS activities for loss eradication within manufacturing inbound and outbound supply chain context. S/he is also responsible to develop a capability in UMS (Unilever Manufacturing System), Masterplan from the site manufacturing strategy, providing UMS skill development and coaching for all operators, engineers, supervisors and managers in the sourcing unit as well as working with the Factory Director to ensure appropriate progress is being made against KPIs and Site and Pillar Route Maps.  S/he will also lead all the manufacturing digital program throughout all Homecare factories within Greater Asia, coordinating with cross functional teams to create end to end value chain digitization efforts. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation, management, and successful operation of the Continuous Improvement Methodology process in the factory.
• Set Program Plan to align between BG and BU SC/Manex to get end to end alignment and business focus by factory.
• Together with Factory manager Propose yearly Priority focus activity (Priority line) in align with masterplan.
• Ensure site UMS master plan and actions are aligned with the category manufacturing strategy.
• Coordinates the development of the UMS preparation phase plan, tracks progress against the plan and leads issue resolution (gap analysis and adjustments to plan).
• Lead FI pillar to be focus on the improvement activity and consolidate with Factory Manager on the action updates and support needed.
• Implements appropriate reviews (monthly, quarterly) to evaluate both pillars and departments progress in their UMS plans.
• Runs the continuously improvement Focus priority activity for each Pillars. And facilitates the development of individual pillars, sets benchmarks and tracks completion of pillar goals, including participation in pillar meetings, team meetings and activities.
• Works with PD (People Development) Pillar leader to build capabilities in the Pillar leaders and manages their development.
• Serves as a resource and coach for questions and practices regarding the UMS process.
• Provides updated information on a monthly basis to SU Directors, BU ManEx team regarding progress of UMS, saving project, Improvement initiatives.
• Serves as a UMS champion in the facility to promote UMS amongst management and employees.
• Participates in RVS or GVS clusters, seeks out best practices, and ensures lessons learned and key agreed upon items are horizontally expanded into the factory.
• Coordinates with Site Unilever Project Management and site TIM Manager to ensure appropriate EEM and UMS methodology is being incorporated into all projects and new equipment/products and ensures this is part of the Site Acceptance Test.
• Provides MP records and UMS site standards to Site Unilever Project Management and site TIM (Technology Innovation Manager) Manager for all projects for the site.
• Formulate and execute manufacturing digital programs into all factories with aim to gain productivities and end to end connectivity.
• Coordinate with engineering team to increase automation and digital connectivity within the factories to improve efficiencies.
• Design and implement strategies for leveraging digital technologies to optimize production, improve quality, or enhancing customer experience.
• Focuses on integrating digital technologies to improve manufacturing processes, enhance efficiency, and drive cost productivity.
• Select appropriate digital technologies, platforms, and tools to address cost, scalability, and integration with existing systems/manufacturing technologies.
• Work with cross-functional teams, including IT, engineering, and operations, to ensure successful integration of digital solutions, collaborate with upstream and downstream supply chain to create close loop connectivity digital programs.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Proficiency in areas like IoT, AI, machine learning, data analytics, and cloud computing or equivalent experience
• More than 10 years' experience in Engineering, Process Engineering, Production and/or Manufacturing Excellence, Manufacturing digital Excellence
• World Class Manufacturing experience, FMCG is highly preferred
• TPM/WCM//Six Sigma/LEAN experience required

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