Manufacturing Site Manager

The purpose of the role is to drive and manage high performance of our manufacturing site and supply chain. The position holder creates, manages, and implements plans and leads the organization to deliver operational and financial targets for the Manufacturing Site.

Key responsibility areas

• Running efficient manufacturing operations and optimized supply-chain in the site, including conversion cost, employee health and safety, quality, on time delivery, warehousing, inventory levels, distribution, procurement, sustainability improvements, and productivity

• Enabling and driving Integrated Tactical Planning in the core of the operating model

• Providing leadership to local Manufacturing Site teams and alignment across the Market Unit

• Ensuring cost competitiveness and high operational and manufacturing efficiency

• Facilitating ongoing efficiency improvement and cost optimization plans

• Planning appropriate manufacturing platform and technologies together with global operations teams to meet future growth ensuring competitiveness and cost efficiency

• Protecting company assets and ensuring that capital projects are effectively managed

• Ensuring best in class customer service and quality performance

• Ensuring world class health and safety practices and procedures

• Building a high-performance culture grounded in the company values Care, Dare and Deliver

• Ensuring sustainable talent supply, development, and engagement

• Driving factory automatization, digitalization, and continuous improvement

• Full accountability over the local legal entity, including statutory reporting with Finance teams, relationships with union representatives and local communities, and employment matters

• Ensuring that Huhtamaki values, ethical standards and legal compliance is followed and adhered to across the Manufacturing Site and in all activities, and the company's interests are protected by developing relations and representation with industry bodies and contacts

Profile, competencies and experience

This role requires strong operational excellence as well as leadership and change management skills. The role works in close collaboration with colleagues in the Market Unit, in other Manufacturing Sites, as well as Segment and Group functions to achieve our strategic goals.

• Experience in manufacturing in packaging or similar industry, preferably experience in FMCG or Foodservice companies

• Proven track record of leading a manufacturing site with improved efficiency

• Experience in managing responsibilities and compliance in a legal entity

• Expertise in driving operational excellence

• Thriving in a complex environment and having experience in successfully leading transformation and change

• Ability to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, comfortable working in a matrix environment with strong stakeholder management skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Proven track record of leading and engaging people and developing high-performing teams

• Courage to make difficult decisions when necessary

• Proven track record of achieving results, delivering on plans, and implementing sustainable strategies leading to improved organizational performance

• Continuously finding solutions to various challenges, improving our ways of working

• Alignment with Huhtamaki’s values and passion for caring about food, people, and the planet

• Fluent in Spanish and English is requiered for this position

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