Global RPS Manufacturing Excellence Content Lead/Head

Join Reckitt’s Global RPS Manufacturing Excellence Team

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands, Reckitt’s purpose is 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.

Supply Chain at Reckitt

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. Our talented and passionate teams 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.

The Reckitt Production System (RPS) is a global transformation program that will touch all our people in the factories first, bringing TPM/WCM systems and practices. It is a challenging and at the same time exciting program, that has an incredibly high profile within our organization. Our central team is responsible for developing the systems for global deployment.

About the role

The purpose of this position is to develop content, tools and capabilities to guarantee a proper deployment of RPS across Reckitt, to support the fast expansion with high quality of execution, standardization and sustainability of RPS. You will support the global excellence team to ensure RPS effectiveness for performance improvement and value added for the business.

Your responsibilities

• Responsible for the Global Reapplication System of proven processes and best practices, including publication of success stories and monthly highlights, and creation of RPS content, templates, and guidelines to facilitate the deployment and understanding of our Management System on a global scale.
• Co-responsibility to align and develop training materials, playbooks, and global standards to ensure the global and regional team is ready to support factories in the next phases.
• Align, design, and support the delivery of regional and global TPM/WCM trainings, facilitators workshops, train the trainers, internal auditors, coaches’ courses, senior leadership trainings, and support the development of e-learnings and new learning platforms.
• Facilitate global or regional communities of practice, and provide overall guidance for skill matrixes and development plans of CI resources.
• Work closely with global and regional functions such as Safety, Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering Capabilities, Digitalization, and Analytics teams to ensure alignment.
• Prepare ad-hoc performance analysis, capabilities reports, benchmarks, executive sessions, and upward reporting.

The experience we're looking for

• Engineering university degree
• 10+ years in Manufacturing / Operations, including leading front-line teams and industrial engineering
• Experience in FMCG Industry within a company that follows a structured approach such as TPM (e.g., P&G, Unilever, Kraft Heinz, Heineken, InBev, Nestle, etc.)
• Desired experience in Consulting Companies like EY, McKinsey, Efeso, Capgemini, BCG, Falconi, Integration
• Experience as a member of the leadership team

The skills for success

Technical Skills/Competencies

• Proven experience in Production/Manufacturing Management Systems
• Competence in leading Focused Improvement and problem solving
• Data management experience for collecting, integrating, analyzing, and visualizing manufacturing data, including setting up automatic data collection systems
• Experience providing coaching and training to shop floor leadership and operators
• Experience in implementation of structured Loss Analysis, annual target setting, monthly glidepath, gap to target reviews, daily target setting, and daily operational reviews
• Experience working in a global environment and with virtual teams
• Actively seeks opportunities to shorten reporting times, improve reporting skills of the team, and enhance efficiency of applications, in collaboration with the Manufacturing Digitalization team
• Excellent understanding of concepts such as Lean Production, Agile Production, Value Stream Mapping, KanBan, MOQ, Capacity, OEE planned and unplanned losses, Validated Product Speed, Vertical Start Up, Innovation, and New Assets Success Criteria

Managerial Skills/Competencies

• Business judgment, analytical skills, and a forward-looking approach to prevent risks to plan
• Proven leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills for transforming operations from reactive to preventive and proactive (e.g., from 60% OEE to 80% OEE by reducing losses)
• Ability to influence key stakeholders across geographies and functions, including SC Directors and Factory leadership teams, to change and apply proven ways of working, based on strong collaboration and hands-on support to implement systems
• Actively seeks opportunities to shorten reporting times, develop data management skills of the team, and improve adoption of applications and share points, in collaboration with the Manufacturing Digitalization team
• Willingness to travel up to 30%

Languages

• English: fluent

Key relationships

• Internal: Plant Directors/Managers, Operational teams, Global/Regional SC Functions, Global and Regional Engineering, Regional Finance Teams
• External: Contractors and Suppliers, Consultants, Digital platforms providers, Trainers, Benchmark factories, Manufacturing Excellence networks

What we offer

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans, we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.