Deputy Production Manager (m/f/d) Beverage Base Materials & Extraction

Reference ID: 41903

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

Your tasks:

1. You control and ensure smooth processes in our production of beverage bases and natural tea & coffee extracts.
2. You ensure compliance with costs, time, and quality.
3. You coordinate daily with related departments and find target-oriented solutions for emerging issues.
4. You lead projects for the implementation and optimization of production processes as well as digitalization together with our production managers.
5. You take seasonal fluctuations into account by planning your resources (personnel, budget, materials) proactively and economically.
6. You motivate, develop, and lead your employees with empathy and transparent decisions.
7. You also develop our processes sustainably.

Your profile:

1. You have an (engineering) technical background and experience from a manufacturing (food) company.
2. You are proficient in operational work and at the same time keep an eye on the overarching strategic goals.
3. Lean management and ownership are among your principles, through which you have already achieved process improvements.
4. You work confidently with MS Office; ideally, you have already worked with SAP.
5. You can communicate complex topics and decisions in a transparent and understandable way.
6. You are a strong negotiator and have a good sense of when and how to assert yourself.
7. Very good German and good English.

Your Benefits

1. Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues.
2. Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition.
3. Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities.
4. Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies.
5. Anniversary and special payments.
6. Employee referral bonuses.
7. Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts).

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

Become a part of our team and apply online through our career portal to the attention of Anna-Lena Bittorf. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.