Manufacturing Excellence Lead

**Who we are?**

On any given day, 2.5 billion people globally use Unilever products to feel good, look good and get more out of life. Many of our brands are well-known, household staples and old-time favourites including Dove, Rexona, Lynx, Vaseline, OMO/Persil, Surf, TRESemmé, Continental, Ben & Jerry’s and Streets.

We have a long tradition of being a progressive, responsible business. It goes back to the days of our founder William Lever, who launched the world’s first purposeful brand, Sunlight Soap more than 100 years ago, and it’s at the heart of how we run our company today. In 2022 Unilever Australia & New Zealand became a Certified B Corporation (B Corp), joining a growing network of organisations committed to galvanising a stronger, more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy for all.

Unilever North Rocks Supply Chain Sourcing Unit was established in late 1960s and is dedicated to the production of Home & Personal Care products for the local Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) markets as well as Aerosols for the Asia export market. We produce leading household brands including Rexona, Impulse, Omo, Surf, Dove & Tresemme. The Sourcing Unit is continually transforming to remain competitive in the market and has recently built a new Laundry Capsules Factory in addition to the Liquids and Aerosols factories.

A job at Unilever is a career made by you, with development opportunities, benefits and a working culture that embraces diversity and is pioneering flexibility. There’s no better time to join our team

At Unilever ANZ, we have also embarked on something special: we are proud to be undertaking a 4 Day work week trial. This trial will see our staff retain 100 percent of their salaries, while working 80 percent of the time and delivering 100 percent of business outcomes. **The Manufacturing Excellence Lead is designed to be fully functional in the 4-Day work week trial.**

**Job Summary**

Design and delivery of the site deployment of Unilever Manufacturing System Excellence programmes in alignment with the site 3-to-5-year vision as defined on the North Rocks Masterplan.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Align the deployment of Unilever Manufacturing System (UMS) to support the site and BU objectives for improvement across a balanced scorecard.
- Analysing processes to generate insights (issues/opportunities) and recommend business improvement opportunities.
- Gathering and interpreting information from a range of sources, through modelling data and processes to identify and recommend solutions.
- Work with teams across the business to understand the current state to identify opportunities to standardise and streamline people processes.
- A strong ability to coach, train and influence stakeholders.
- Passion for people and ability to work collaboratively cross
- functionally to support business goals.
- Support the development of organizational capability in Focused Improvement and Run to Standard (R2S) Process Engineering capability.

**Key Deliverables**
- Delivery of ManEx tools and processes throughout North Rocks Operations.
- Provide technical support for process concerns (RCA’s, Safety & Quality investigations).
- Lead >12 continuous improvement initiatives and root cause investigations.
- Support the delivery of North Rocks production health and safety via near miss reporting and supporting investigations.
- Support the delivery of Operational Line Efficiency (OLE) targets via Digital implementation use of robust data and accurate loss tree reporting.
- Delivery of digital solutions (BuildApp) across North Rocks Site (modules including tagging, CIL’s).
- Creation of an optimised site scorecard encompassing ANZ factory functions (no touch reporting).
- Support the site leadership team in strategic planning including Site Master Plans, UMS deployment and Digital roadmap covering a 3-to-5-year horizon.
- Maintain a deep level of data-driven insights to drive robust decision making.
- Effective liaison with cross functional teams to support the implementation of the agreed projects.

**Does this sound like you?**
- You can display high influence and strategic leadership across all levels on site, from the frontline to our senior leaders.
- Your leadership style is flexible, and you have the ability to adapt to different environments.
- You are a change agent, able to be a catalyst of change and display passion and drive.
- You enjoy creating a strategy from the ground up and driving the Continuous Improvement vision across the site.
- You are someone who can carve their own pathway outside of the organisational structure and bring people along for the journey.

**What awaits you at Unilever?**

The core of Unilever’s culture is captured as Human, Purposeful, Accountable. You will be joining a dynamic, flexible, and inspiring work environment that truly cares about your wellbeing, values what you do and celebrates your success.

This is your opportunity to be part of a purpose