Unilever

FactoryDirector

£130–200k ~AI est. Burton, United Kingdom FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Factory Director at Unilever. Skills: Operations management, Strategic planning, Continuous improvement, Financial management. Operate factory as per agreed standards. Design manufacturing activities”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver all targets; Deliver product superiority

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Continuous improvement

Eligibility Requirements

Travels occasionally, Welcome visitors & auditors

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8-10 Years experience in Supply Chain, Make/Technology experience, SHE experience, Quality experience, Plan experience

Nice to Have

FMCG experience

What You'll Do.

Operate factory as per agreed standards

Design manufacturing activities

Set up manufacturing activities

Lead manufacturing activities

Deliver financial results

Co-design site strategic plans

Recommend site strategic plans

Develop continuous improvement plans

Implement continuous improvement plans

Manage site financial results

Deliver site financial results

Create programmes for financial results

Engage innovation implementation

Facilitate innovation implementation

Propose capital investments

Agree capital investments

Implement capital investments

Pursue site long term plan

Prioritize resource development

Plan resource development

Plan resource deployment

Maintain technical standards

Enable factory operation

Achieve high customer service

Support UMS activities

Lead UMS Steering Committee

Coordinate factory production

Direct factory production

Achieve production plans

Achieve product quality

Optimize labour utilization

Optimize energy utilization

Optimize materials utilization

Coordinate quality management

Direct quality management

Lead HR policy deployment

Manage employee relations

Build momentum of people agenda

Build momentum of culture agenda

Promote speak up nature

Create psychological safety

Ensure effective local stakeholder management

Ensure community issues alignment

Guard application of Unilever Policies

Ensure application of governance requirements

Lead integration initiatives

Lead collaborative work initiatives

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Nutrition Supply Chain teams; Technology & Innovation teams; Engineering teams; Extended supply chain

Full Job Description

**Title: Factory Director Reporting into : Ji-Bo Yang Work Level: WL3X Location: Burton Factory** **About the role** Burton SU is Unilever’s Home of Iconic British Foods, manufacturing the well-known brands of Hellmann’s, Colman’s, Marmite and Bovril. The factory serves the local business, being the largest Unilever nutrition factory in UK, the unique UL manufacturer of Colman’s Condiments, Colman’s English Mustard, Marmite and Bovril, Pot Noodle Sachets. With over 200 employees highly committed, Burton is a fast-paced and demanding working environment, producing more than 45kTons a year, improving performance year on year. Key focus areas include people and culture, efficiency through optimisation & digitalisation, delivering improved safety standards and delivering product superiority for the UK condiment cell including Hellmann’s **Main Job Purpose:** The Factory Director is responsible for operating the factory as per agreed standards. S/he designs, sets up and leads manufacturing activities, following the supply chain and BU strategies, to deliver all targets including targets on service, costs, productivity, quality, innovation and OSHE. **Key Accountabilities:** • Deploy and Deliver the annual plan and financial results including targets on service, costs, productivity, quality, innovation and SHE • Co Design & Recommend long term site strategic plans (Masterplan) to the Nutrition Supply Chain teams. • Lead site to develop and implement continuous improvement plans to deliver site targets – manufacturing performance management. • Manage and deliver the site’s financial results: annual budgets, Sourcing Unit Result, conversion costs and create programmes to deliver financial results • Engage and facilitate the implementation of innovations on site, for products, ways of working, service models and supply chain models • Propose, agree with Technology & Innovation + Engineering teams and implement the necessary capital investments to meet the planned production

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