Global Process Lead, Make Plant Maintenance

We share the passion and entrepreneurial flair of our founder and are guided by our three culture pillars – Fearless, Family and Founders. They inspire our Primos to be the best they can be and drive us forward in all we do. But what does this mean?

Being Fearless means adopting an agile mindset, being comfortable trying new things and taking risks. We are empowered to question, challenge and innovate.

Family – We treat each other, and our communities, like Family. Always.

Founders – The spirit of entrepreneurship is at the heart of everything we do. We see the business as if it’s our own. We do the right thing for the business and we all take accountability for our work.

When you join Bacardi, you become part of our family and gain more than just a job.

This role is the Global Process Lead (GPL) for Make covering Manufacturing and Maintenance, reporting into the Global Process Owner for Make. As the GPL for Manufacturing and Maintenance, you will work within a broader Global Transformation Process. You will be the enterprise lead of Bacardi’s global Make and Maintenance processes, with a specific mandate to drive Maintenance Excellence and Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) across manufacturing operations.

You will define, govern, and continuously improve Bacardi’s end‑to‑end Make and Maintenance process architecture, ensuring it is fit‑for‑purpose, standardized, scalable, and embedded into SAP S/4

HANA. This role is critical to delivering reliable operations, asset performance, safety, quality, and cost competitiveness across Bacardi’s global manufacturing network.

You are a senior manufacturing and maintenance leader with strong shop‑floor credibility and a proven track record of embedding Maintenance Excellence and TPM as a way of working, not a program. You bring enterprise‑level process ownership, effectively balancing global standardization with local realities while translating operational needs into SAP S/4

HANA‑enabled execution that delivers measurable improvements in reliability, safety, cost, and performance.

• Lead global Manufacturing & Maintenance process ownership, including preventive, predictive, reactive, calibration, refurbishment, and continuous improvement maintenance models
• Own global process taxonomy (L1–L3) and governance for Manufacturing & Maintenance, ensuring clarity, consistency, and performance visibility
• Guide fit‑to‑standard process design aligned with industry‑leading manufacturing and TPM practices
• Lead Manufacturing & Maintenance process design within the Transformation program, shaping the future‑state operating model and digital ways of working across sites
• Develop the Connected Frontline Worker (CFW) roadmap for Manufacturing & Maintenance, including role‑based experiences, standard work digitization, and adoption across sites
• Lead identification, prioritization, and delivery of high‑value AI and advanced analytics use cases for the shop floor (e.g., predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, quality insights, loss intelligence)
• Partner with OT/IT/Digital teams to integrate SAP S/4
  
  HANA with shop floor systems (MES, CMMS/EAM, historians, IIoT platforms), enabling end‑to‑end visibility and decision‑making
• Set standards and guardrails for AI‑enabled work execution on the shop floor, including human‑in‑the‑loop decisioning, model performance monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Lead the Operating Model development for global TPM strategy, embedding asset care, operator ownership, reliability engineering, and loss elimination
• Design and govern end‑to‑end TPM processes, including:
  • Autonomous Maintenance (AM)
  • Planned / Preventive Maintenance (PM)
  • Focused Improvement (FI)
  • Asset & Equipment Lifecycle Management
  • Early Equipment Management (EEM)
  • Training & Capability Development
• Define global standards for:
  • Asset criticality and prioritization
  • Loss analysis and elimination
  • Equipment condition monitoring and reliability‑centered maintenance (RCM)
  • Preventive & predictive maintenance
  • Maintenance KPIs and tiered performance management
• Ensure TPM processes are fully integrated with Make, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, and EHS processes
• Partner with sites…