**Your Role**
Based in our Headquarters in Barcelona and reporting directly to our Industrial Director, Global Manufacturing Excellence Manager is a Key position to face Affinity strategic business growth, High Performance Organization development and Manufacturing Best in Class results across the 5 manufacturing sites in Spain, France, Italy and UK. In order to achieve this challenging vision we require a cultural and capability transformation across whole organization.
**What you will do**
- Lead / Build Global Manufacturing Excellence program to achieve Best-In-Class results covering: Fundamentals Safety & Quality fundamentals at shopfloor, Direction Setting systems, Autonomous &; Progressive Maintenance, Initiative Management & Pull e2e Value Stream capabilities
- Responsible for Continuous Improvement Organization roles at plants steering progress and building capabilities
- Lead activities and enable people (directly / indirectly) to achieve overall success / a common goal.
- Manage Manufacturing Saving Plan supporting plant loss tree definition process, identification of global opportunities to improve COGS / Time to market / Product quality excellence
- Coordinate integral loss elimination teams delivering initiatives to support company strategic vision
- Represent a network/bridgehead function, who coordinates and uses strategic alliances projects, interfaces & others
- Oversight, manage and improve several areas in manufacturing such as: Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Production Operations, Manufacturing Repair &; Maintenance Operations, Manufacturing Production Planning & Control
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**What we are looking for**
- 5 - 10 years of experience in manufacturing in similar roles / experiences
- Manufacturing Excellence proven experience: Hoshin, direction setting, problem solving, value stream mapping. Desirable Black belt.
- Proven experience managing cultural change and capability building
- Leadership & influence skills
- High level of coaching capabilities
- People & Result oriented
- Proactive and flexible
- Fluent English is a must. French and Italian are highly desirable
- International experience and/or International mindset will be high valuated
- Availability to travel across our different locations
**What we offer**
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours
- Affinity University platform:
- Professional development opportunities to employees at different stage of their careers,
acknowledging diverse career paths.
- Pet friendly office
- Celebrations & fun
We cultivate an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity. We firmly believe that embracing a
variety of perspectives is integral to both our company’s success and the strenght os our team.
That’s why we are committed to providing equal opportunities for all.
**Our Company**
Affinity Petcare is more than an international petfood company. For more than 60 years, we
have been dedicated to nourishing healthy bonds between dogs, cats and people to make the
world a better place.
We are very proud of our innovative brands which include: Ultima, Advance, Brekkies, Nature’s
Variety, Nature’s Menu, Natural Trainer, Libra and more. Currently, we are over 1,200
professionals working for this purpose from Barcelona, Paris, Milan, and Snetterton, as well as
4 production sites through which we supply the 70+ countries where our brands have a
presence.
So, what are you waiting for? Join our team to leave your footprint!
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