Manufacturing Improvement Manager

**MANUFACTURING IMPROVEMENT MANAGER**

**Our Company**

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) are proud to have been recognised as one of Australia’s Best Places to Work for 2023 as published by the Australian Financial Review and Boss Magazine. Come and join our award-winning team and put some excitement back in your career

Our well-known portfolio in Australia includes the Coca-Cola family of products, as well as loved brands like Sprite, Fanta, Mount Franklin, Powerade, Jim Beam, Canadian Club and Grinders Coffee.

**Your amazing new opportunity...**

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team at Richlands as our Manufacturing Improvement Manager. The Manufacturing Improvement Manager will lead a team to monitor and improve CCEP Australia operational processes with the aim of standardising and making them as efficient as possible. Research and analysis feature heavily in this role, and it is essential that you can map out all workflows, remove waste and low-value activities, and recommend solutions, execute, and deliver on the initiatives. Guided by a standard focused improvement strategy, you will take the lead in implementing changes, supporting national improvement targets, ensuring close collaboration with the manufacturing sites and ensure seamless transition of performance improvement projects, to ensure long term sustainable improvement and site ownership.

**What will you be doing?**
- Lead the strategic development and implementation of CCEP Operational Excellence (OE) manufacturing program to drive operational excellence.
- Coach and imbed a lean culture by creating a community of lean practitioners to ensure a collaborative and integrated approach to CCEP OE manufacturing way.
- Regularly communicate with other national manufacturing sites to ensure consistent learning and drive the development of best practice across the lean community.
- Reporting and analysis on the effectiveness of the implementation of the CCEP OE manufacturing way with a view to improve performance and transferring knowledge.
- Together with the site leadership team play a key role in facilitating the development and delivery of the overall strategic imperatives.
- Track and report on progress to deliver results through the tiered meeting processes, governance of performance improvement projects and overall monthly meeting cadence and operating frameworks.

**Let's talk about you...**
- Previous experience in FMCG leading operational teams and implementing lean processes and tools
- Excellent knowledge of manufacturing and cost to serve supply chain strategy and lean manufacturing principles
- Demonstrated relationship builder with various departments with a track record of developing collaborative relationships to achieve common goals
- Proven track record in leading cultural change and managing projects from concept through to delivery
- Results focused change advocate who is able to leverage a strong technical understanding through effective communication at all stakeholder levels
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline

**Your amazing benefits**:
At CCEP you can you expect an attractive package including staff product allowance as well as a broad range of discounts and benefits from a range of partners This is a genuine opportunity for an ambitious and customer focused trade professional to take their career to a new level and thrive making a positive contribution to CCEP customers’ business growth and success, with a brand you can be proud of. Some of our amazing & competitive benefits are:

- Company funded Parental leave
- Purchased Annual Leave Scheme
- Ongoing training and opportunities for career progression
- Being part of one of the world’s largest bottlers and most recognizable brands.
- Excellent team culture - we have fun whilst we work
- A Leader who will support & guide you throughout your career
- Access to employee benefits such as free drinks onsite, allocation of products to take home, EAP, free onsite parking
- Access to our CCEP Care Program which helps our People work through the challenges of navigating Government Services, Social Welfare Organisations, and all other matters that impact on their emotional, psychological, financial, and physical wellbeing. This includes free counselling for you and your family via our EAP helpline

**Applications Close Friday 6**th** December, 2024**

Coca-Cola Europacific is committed to the health and safety of all employees and to equal employment opportunity for all employees to ensure that our employees have a safe work environment that is also free of discrimination and harassment.
This obligation may also extend to include a pre-employment health evaluation process that is aimed at determining if prospective new employees are able to safely undertake the inherent requirements of the role without putting themselves or others at risk.