Manufacturing Business Unit Manager Murcia (Spain) / On-site
Are you ready to lead a manufacturing engine that feeds millions?
At Hero, our Production team is the heart of our promise: delivering high-quality, safe, and nutritious products that consumers trust.
As Manufacturing Business Unit Manager, you will guide a passionate team, champion operational excellence, and transform our plant into a Lean, agile, high-performance environment.
This is your chance to shape culture, elevate capability, and steer an entire business unit toward sustainable, profitable growth.
What you'll achieve
Lead the Plant to Excellence: Steer the full operation of your manufacturing unit—driving safety, quality, productivity, and cost performance to new heights.
Drive Profitability & Strategic Impact: Manage the unit's P&L;, ensuring long-term sustainability and making data-driven decisions that strengthen Hero's competitive edge.
Empower and Elevate Your Team: Lead Process Engineering, Production Shift Leaders, and Maintenance—guiding, coaching, and aligning them toward shared strategic goals.
Champion Lean Culture: Embed Lean Manufacturing principles, spearheading continuous improvement and igniting a mindset of problem-solving and efficiency across the plant.
Transform Ways of Working: Lead cultural change initiatives that boost engagement, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration at every level.
Protect What Matters Most: Assure full compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards—keeping our people safe and our products impeccable.
Turn Insight into Action: Monitor operational and financial KPIs closely, transforming insights into targeted corrective actions and improvement plans that elevate performance across the unit.
Connect the Dots Across the Business: Partner closely with Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, and HR to create an agile, integrated operational ecosystem.
Who You Are
Manufacturing Leader at Heart: Hold a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Chemistry, Food Science & Technology, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Management, or similar and offer solid experience in manufacturing operations—ideally from the food industry—paired with strong people leadership and management skills.
Bilingual Operator: Fluent in Spanish and comfortable working in English at B2–C1 level.
Lean & Continuous Improvement Champion: Comfortable applying Lean principles in real operational environments and driving a culture of continuous improvement, eliminating waste, and shaping efficient, high-performing teams.
Analytical Navigator: Use data to guide decisions, challenge the status quo, and are proactive, resilient, and always aiming for better.
Strong Communicator & Influencer: Builds strong relationships, facilitates collaboration, and communicates clearly across teams and levels, creating alignment and inspiring confidence even in complex operational contexts.
Our Culture
How We Grow Together
– We dare to do things differently, seek to always win with consumers and customers, and endeavor to be forever relevant and vital to our world.
It's about Curiosity, Innovation and Consumer/Customer Focus.
Everyone Hero
– We work together in pursuit of our common mission and strategy, strengthening our local businesses by leveraging the power of the collective.
It's about Purpose, Performance and Teamwork.
Nourish others
– We treat everyone with honesty, care and respect and provide our people, customers and consumers with what they need to thrive.
It's about Honesty, Empowerment, Respect and Diversity.
Take responsibility
– We make good choices today to build a more sustainable business and environment fit for the needs of tomorrow.
It's about Sustainability, Ownership, Heritage and Quality.
What We Offer
Continuous learning and development opportunities.
A collaborative and challenging multinational environment.
Ongoing feedback and a culture that encourages open communication.
Physiotherapist services to keep you feeling your best.
Attractive Compensation & Benefits package.
Strong values and a matrix organization where you can make a real difference.
Great work environment and amazing people you'll be proud to work with.
Sound like you?
Apply now
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Important: Only applications sent to the indicated emails or via LinkedIn will be considered.
We do not accept applications through third parties or job scrapers.
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