Manufacturing Excellence Manager

Reckitt Benckiser LLC; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 60 000 - 100 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Manufacturing Excellence Manager to lead the implementation of innovative solutions in their manufacturing operations. This pivotal role involves enhancing performance, ensuring compliance with global standards, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background, extensive experience in manufacturing excellence programs, and a passion for driving operational efficiency. Join a dynamic team dedicated to making a real difference in consumer health and hygiene while enjoying a supportive work environment that values inclusion and employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Employee Resource Groups

Wellbeing programs

Parental benefits

Mental health support

Life insurance

Global share plans

Performance incentives

Qualifications

• 10+ years of manufacturing experience, preferably in FMCG.
• Experience with TPM/WCM/IWS strategy implementation.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead the implementation of the Global Manufacturing Operating System.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement based on core principles.

Skills

Business partnership

Collaboration

Process improvement

Leadership

Change management

Vendor negotiation

Supply management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Power BI

MES

Job description

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Manufacturing Excellence Manager

City: Johannesburg

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Manufacturing

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team helps us improve the efficiency, quality, and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develops new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

Are you passionate about leading a team towards excellence in one of the most vital sectors of consumer health and hygiene? As Reckitt's Manufacturing Excellence Manager, you'll be the linchpin in our manufacturing operations, ensuring the implementation of our Global Reckitt Production System (RPS) in collaboration with the Manufacturing Excellence co-leads and the site director. You will champion the production of high-quality products that meet the needs of millions globally. This role is your opportunity to pioneer innovative solutions and inspire a team dedicated to making a real difference in people's lives.

Your responsibilities

• Co-lead the implementation of the Global Manufacturing Operating System (RPS) to enhance performance and address gaps to targets.
• Ensure consistency and compliance of performance measures and loss definitions with global standards. Improve data collection efficiency and accuracy in collaboration with IT&D teams and digital manufacturing initiatives. Optimize reporting and visualization for better gap diagnosis.
• Diagnose performance gaps and initiate improvement plans across functions. Train, coach, and assess problem-solving and gap diagnosis capabilities for both sporadic and chronic losses.
• Develop functional capabilities based on TPM/IWS pillars for performance improvement. Act as an instructor, facilitator, and change agent, inspiring operational excellence across functions.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement based on core principles of TPM/WCM/IWS/Lean.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce OEE losses, waste, energy consumption, quality losses, safety risks, and increase productivity.
• Manage the CI budget and monitor financial results.
• Lead strategic initiatives to build team capabilities.
• Mentor operators and teams, fostering a culture of safety, accountability, and excellence.
• Ensure seamless operations through collaboration with cross-functional teams and uphold safety and quality standards.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• 10+ years of manufacturing experience, preferably in FMCG, including experience as a functional manager.
• At least 4 years working in operations with structured manufacturing excellence programs, demonstrating system adoption and results.
• Experience with TPM/WCM/IWS strategy implementation.
• Proven training and coaching skills in TPM/WCM/IWS methodologies.
• Strong leadership, change management, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience implementing digital systems like MES, connected worker, Power BI, etc.
• Instructor or program management experience in TPM/IWS/WCM, with statistical tools knowledge.
• Passion for people development and continuous improvement.
• Leadership presence, motivation skills, and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to build business partnerships and work collaboratively.

The skills for success

Business partnership, collaboration, relationship management, business acumen, productivity management, process improvement, distribution logistics, vendor and contract negotiation, category management, supply management, procurement.

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What we offer

We support our people through inclusion initiatives, Employee Resource Groups, wellbeing programs, parental benefits, mental health support, life insurance, global share plans, and performance incentives. Our pay-for-performance philosophy rewards outstanding results.

Equality

We value potential and experience equally. We consider all qualified applicants without discrimination based on age, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, veteran status, or other protected categories.