Category Maintenance Manager; Health Science

Category Maintenance Excellence Manager (Health Science)

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®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, 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 Category Maintenance Manager (Health Science) will be responsible for implementing Maintenance Foundations and the maintenance related elements of NAOOMI for the assigned Maintenance Categories. This role will be a key liaison between the Category Engineering, Nestle Nutrition & Health Hub Engineering, Manufacturing Excellence, and Factory personnel teams. The Category Maintenance Manager is a People Leader role and will also have primary responsibilities for coaching, training and assisting Factories in executing the Nestle Maintenance Strategy at an optimal cost.

This position will be either a remote or hybrid role based on the selected candidate’s geographic location. Strong preference will be given to applicants who live within a commutable distance within Bridgewater, New Jersey, Solon, Ohio, Boston or Sudbury, MA, Leonia, NJ, Chicago or Franklin Park, IL or Eau Claire, WI.

• Evaluate, improve, and implement the Category Maintenance strategy to deliver the category goals.
• Provide clear alignment and regular reporting of team performance and progress to Corporate Engineering, Technical & Production (T&P) Leadership, USA Zone Engineering HUB and Global Maintenance organizations.
• Ensure team objectives, priorities, and deliverables are aligned with the Technical & Production Market roadmap and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Ensure Category Maintenance team is meeting the factory and market needs for maintenance.
• Align Category strategy with Nestle Continuous Excellence implementation and global maintenance requirements.
• Ensure Factory visits are effective and focus on building competency.
• Ensure processes and systems are properly documented and communicated to factories.
• Evaluate and develop the team to more effectively deliver business results.
• Maintain expertise in all aspects of maintenance management and how they may apply to the strategy.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the market maintenance systems.
• Leverage internal and external benchmarking to validate strategy effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities, and achieve best-in-class maintenance performance.
• Demonstrate and promote Nestlé Leadership behaviors, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and results-oriented execution.
• Build credibility and relationships…