Manufacturing Excellence Manager

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life (R), Nature's Bounty (R), Vital Proteins (R), Orgain (R), Nuun (R), BOOST (R), Carnation Breakfast Essentials (R), Peptamen (R), Compleat Organic Blends (R), and more.

We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way.

We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

The Manufacturing Excellence Manager is responsible for the development, alignment, and execution of a factory-wide performance improvement strategy. The role acts as the center of expertise and key driver for Nestlé Continuous Excellence (NCE) and Industrial Performance activities in the factory.

• Responsible for development, competence building, and health of Industrial Performance systems & routines, including labor utilization studies.
• Accountable for data reliability, SAP BOM/Master Data, planning rate reviews, asset intensity and utilization systems, and Nestlé standards for manufacturing performance.
• Leads development of strategic plan (OMP) and improvement strategy in the factory.
• Ensures the right cascading of priorities and measures from the market to the factory.
• Defines and embeds NCE projects and initiatives into the factory objectives and aligns factory leadership team towards the plan.
• Establishes and drives effective factory governance to ensure that NCE implementation contributes to delivering business results.
• Supports factory competency building plan that ensures NCE is developing autonomy at all levels of the organization.
• Stewards, trains, supports and coaches the factory leadership team and local leadership teams in manufacturing competencies (e.g., GA, FI, TPM 7+4) behaviors and applicable manufacturing standards.
• Develops competency of local leadership teams and factory leadership teams, supporting them to apply methodologies to improve and sustain results (e.g., all NCE methodologies, value added activities, workload studies, etc.).
• Conducts, sponsors, and/or coaches specific projects to support results improvement around priorities established by the factory.
• Understands and ensures together with factory cost controller an overall competence of costing standards for manufacturing.
• Collaborates with market manufacturing excellence director to drive NCE.

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, engineering, or related degree required.
• Lean Six Sigma green/black belt certification desired.
• 8+ years in a manufacturing or continuous improvement environment, desired.
• Food, CPG or pharmaceutical experience preferred, which includes:
• 2+ years of direct production/maintenance floor experience.
• 2+ years working with factory management/leadership team.
• 2+ years of project management, loss intelligence, & advanced problem solving.
• 2+ years working in goal alignment/TPM/lean implementation.

• Strong knowledge of digital tools including Power BI, SAP master data, MES and other visualization tools/data analytics experience preferred.
• Strong leadership in cultural change management & managing multiple complex priorities and business connections.
• Ability to…