Manager - Manufacturing Excellence & Digital Transformation

Unilever Brasil Ltda.

Mumbai

On-site

INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Unilever Foods India is seeking a Manager - Manufacturing Excellence to accelerate the manufacturing excellence journey across the Foods network in Mumbai. The role combines UMS, productivity, capability building and data-driven improvement to drive a more agile and resilient operation.

You will champion structured problem solving, benchmarking and cross-site learning, partnering with engineering, planning, finance and digital teams to unlock value across multiple sites.

Qualifications

Strong manufacturing/operations experience with factory performance understanding.
Experience in Manufacturing Excellence, Continuous Improvement, UMS/WCM/Lean or equivalent systems.
Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
Ability to translate factory losses and data into actionable improvement programmes.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across factory and central teams.

Responsibilities

Lead the Manufacturing Excellence agenda across Foods India and accelerate deployment and maturity of Unilever Manufacturing System (UMS).
Establish a strong continuous-improvement culture focused on systematic identification and elimination of manufacturing losses.
Strengthen performance management and problem-solving routines across factories.
Drive sharing and replication of best practices across the Foods manufacturing network.
Build and drive the manufacturing productivity roadmap across the Foods network.
Identify structural opportunities across labour, assets, conversion cost, waste and manufacturing processes.
Partner with factory leadership and Finance to create robust improvement pipelines and translate identified opportunities into sustainable business results.
Establish benchmarking across sites and use internal/external best practices to raise manufacturing performance.
Develop a common framework for manufacturing performance and loss intelligence across Foods sites.
Drive structured interventions on chronic losses and performance gaps.
Strengthen the use of data analytics and data-driven decision making in manufacturing.
Enable factories to move from reactive issue resolution towards predictive and preventive performance management.
Partner with Engineering, Digital and site teams to identify opportunities where digital technologies, automation and analytics can unlock manufacturing value.
Build scalable use cases around productivity, reliability, quality, process control and shop-floor decision making.
Ensure successful solutions are standardized and replicated across the network.
Support development of the future-fit digital manufacturing capability within Foods.
Drive initiatives that improve manufacturing responsiveness while balancing service, inventory and controllable cost.
Partner with Planning and factories to strengthen operating flexibility and responsiveness to changing business requirements.
Identify opportunities to increase flexibility of assets, processes and operating models.
Build Manufacturing Excellence capability across site leadership and manufacturing teams.
Develop practitioners and champions in UMS, problem solving, loss elimination and data-driven manufacturing.
Create an active Foods Manufacturing Excellence community to accelerate cross-site learning and replication.
Coach teams in structured problem solving and sustainable improvement.

Skills

Manufacturing / operations experience

Continuous Improvement

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Influencing skills

Tools

Lean / Six Sigma

UMS / WCM

Data analytics

Automation awareness

Job description

Job Description: Manager - Manufacturing Excellence, Foods India

Function: Supply Chain - Manufacturing

Location: Mumbai HO

Req ID: R-1190517

Background & Role

Foods India operates across a diverse manufacturing network, requiring consistently high standards of Safety, Quality, Service, Cost and Sustainability , while continuously improving productivity and building future-fit manufacturing capabilities.

The Manager - Manufacturing Excellence, Foods India will play a pivotal role in accelerating the manufacturing excellence journey across the Foods network.

The role will bring together Manufacturing Excellence, UMS, productivity, capability building and technology-enabled improvement to create a more competitive, agile and resilient manufacturing network.

Key Accountabilities

Manufacturing Excellence & UMS

Lead the Manufacturing Excellence agenda across Foods India and accelerate deployment and maturity of Unilever Manufacturing System (UMS).

Establish a strong continuous-improvement culture focused on systematic identification and elimination of manufacturing losses.

Strengthen performance management and problem-solving routines across factories.

Drive sharing and replication of best practices across the Foods manufacturing network.

Productivity & Cost Competitiveness

Build and drive the manufacturing productivity roadmap across the Foods network.

Identify structural opportunities across labour, assets, conversion cost, waste and manufacturing processes .

Partner with factory leadership and Finance to create robust improvement pipelines and translate identified opportunities into sustainable business results.

Establish benchmarking across sites and use internal/external best practices to raise manufacturing performance.

Performance Improvement

Develop a common framework for manufacturing performance and loss intelligence across Foods sites.

Drive structured interventions on chronic losses and performance gaps.

Strengthen the use of data analytics and data-driven decision making in manufacturing.

Enable factories to move from reactive issue resolution towards predictive and preventive performance management.

Technology, Digital & Automation

Partner with Engineering, Digital and site teams to identify opportunities where digital technologies, automation and analytics can unlock manufacturing value.

Build scalable use cases around productivity, reliability, quality, process control and shop-floor decision making.

Ensure successful solutions are standardized and replicated across the network.

Support development of the future-fit digital manufacturing capability within Foods.

Manufacturing Agility

Drive initiatives that improve manufacturing responsiveness while balancing service, inventory and controllable cost.

Partner with Planning and factories to strengthen operating flexibility and responsiveness to changing business requirements.

Identify opportunities to increase flexibility of assets, processes and operating models.

Capability Building & Community

Build Manufacturing Excellence capability across site leadership and manufacturing teams.

Develop practitioners and champions in UMS, problem solving, loss elimination and data-driven manufacturing.

Create an active Foods Manufacturing Excellence community to accelerate cross-site learning and replication.

Coach teams in structured problem solving and sustainable improvement.

Cross-functional Leadership

Partner closely with Sourcing Units, Engineering, Planning, Quality, SHE, Finance, Procurement and Digital/IT to deliver the Manufacturing Excellence roadmap.

Connect manufacturing improvement priorities with the broader Foods Supply Chain strategy.

Influence stakeholders across factories and central functions to accelerate execution and remove barriers.