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: You will 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: You will 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: You will 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: You will 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: You 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: You are 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. You know how to drive continuous improvement, eliminate waste, and shape efficient, high‐performing teams.
* Analytical Navigator: You use data to guide decisions and challenge the status que and are proactive, resilient, and always aiming for better.
* Strong Communicator & Influencer: builds strong relationships, facilitates collaboration, and communicates clearly across teams and levels. Creates alignment and inspires confidence even in complex operational contexts.
Our Culture: How We Grow Together
* Create wow: 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.