Manufacturing Excellence Process Lead (18 Month FTC)

PepsiCo Supply Chain IWS Deployment Leader

Join the world of PepsiCo Supply Chain supporting our fast-paced manufacturing environment. With responsibility to lead the IWS Deployment and site level capability builds, you will play a key role in delivering our IWS Cultural transformation!

This is a remote position but will require two 3-months-long assignments in Skelmersdale and Coventry.

Responsibilities

To drive and own Run-to-Target (RTT) deployment across the sites in the UK by:

  • Ensuring sites are not constrained due to the lack of knowledge.
  • Ensuring the proper level of skills and qualifications at the sites.
  • Successfully deploying the loss elimination skill needed for the compelling business need (CBN).
  • Providing site leadership with a calibrated assessment of the integrated work system (IWS) implementation from a point of view of total integration of the Pillars.
  • Providing direct coaching to site leadership teams so they know what the next step is, why it is important, and how to achieve the next step.
  • Promoting reapplication of approaches and techniques across the UK while ensuring the tools are being used according to the standard.
  • Ensuring IWS work is loss focused and targeted to delivering the CBN.

Enable the deployment and execution of IWS across the UK by Deploying the initial RTT workstreams and building key Capability in the new site Process Lead (PL) roles and supporting/coaching them post initial training:

This is done by:

  • Ensuring integrated work system (IWS) activities have a connection to loss elimination that will deliver the required compelling business need (CBN) results.
  • Coaching IWS technologies and approaches in all Pillars and in on-the-floor activities.
  • Being the assessor of the integrated activity implementation and the standards calibrator with the leadership team.
  • Participating in all phase assessments to provide a calibrated and objective view.
  • Capturing and disseminating current best practices worthy of reapplication.
  • Establishing a contract with the site manager and the site IWS manager.
  • Developing capability in leadership teams and in the site IWS manager.
  • Diagnosing activities and identifying technical know-how and organization behaviors that are barriers to implementation.
  • Providing feedback to leadership teams in such a way that it causes them to act.
  • Networking with other business units (BUs) and external organizations for information-sharing purposes.
  • Sharing and receiving learnings with and from other internal consultants (ICs) to foster global skill development.
  • Spending time on skill self-development.

The Process Lead also needs to be able to Lead by example and work with the current site ME and CI Managers through the deployment of the RTT. They also need to:

  • Support the Line Lead through the deployment
  • Coach the site ME and Process leads through the RTT and on the overall SPARK deployment
  • Set clear direction and 'tone' for the deployment during the 16-week RTT
  • Work with UK IWS Manager on their capability and feedback/question any issues that arise during the RTT directly with UK IWS Manager
  • Evaluate and feedback on the Capability builds and the candidate readiness for certification post RTT
  • Be a Matrix Leader to the Site Process Leads post the RTT for any support required once they are deploying independently
Qualifications
  • Strong prior experience in a manufacturing environment that uses IWS
  • Able to influence site managers, site leadership teams, and directors as required
  • Technical competence in food manufacturing processes, Primary or Multipack packaging
  • Ability to teach, coach, and develop others
  • Can help others see and implement the organization's vision
  • Personally committed to the self-development required of the role
  • On site at varying locations for each of the RTT 16-week deployments
  • Has operation experience and the skill of the phase where the site/facility is currently operating
  • Has had a line assignment in manufacturing
  • Able to work across the UK at other sites for the duration of the RTT role out
  • Shop Floor Credibility is important
  • Active Listener
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Experience of sourcing, managing and administering a portfolio of programmes
  • Ability to work proactively, collaboratively and effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
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