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About this Associate Value Stream Director role at Mars

Mars · Onsite · CHN-Zhejiang-Jiaxing

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

  • Understand the histories, the practices, assess the strengths and opportunities of the current operation strategies and executions to join strategy definition in site-level and deploy to department goal and plans
  • Initiate organization activities in line with business strategy to develop simple, efficient capable organization in Mars way
  • Ensure operations to meet supply demand request.
  • Work with Safety Committee to ensure safety compliance, promote safety culture and establish safety working environment for all associates
  • Produce high quality products with guidance of Mars QMP system and local regulations
  • Deliver on time service with cooperation with cross-functional teams
  • Embed MSE system and tools to drive continuous productivity improvement.
  • Drive PDCA improvement cycle for business results and capability grow.
  • Accountable for MCC (from raw material to finished product), manage the supply operation budget, ensure budget implementation in cost efficiency way
  • Drive energy saving to realize SiG
  • Recruit develop associates in Mars ways to build up healthy talent pipeline.
  • Develop and maintain work atmosphere with trust, innovation, teamwork, high morale associate’s ownership and accountability to cultivate associates engagement.
  • Operation system/standard build maintain and continuous optimization.
  • Work with technical team to ensure equipment reliability.
  • Works with factory management team with effective communication to collaborate with each other to achieve factory goals.

Job Specifications/Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required in Science or Engineering
  • Formal training or certification in 6-sigma (Black Belt), or TPM, or Lean.
  • 8+ years of Supply Chain experience in a food or other FMCG manufacturing facility
  • Minimum 3 years in factory as manufacturing manager for a large production/manufacturing operation
  • Experience of leading a large production operation and being part of the factory leadership team
  • Experience with facilitating and training various teams on continuous improvements.
  • Preparing and delivering presentations and recommendations to senior management
  • Strong business acumen built through cross functional team a factory assignments
  • Developing relationships with peers and front-line associates
  • Incumbent needs to understand the mechanical operation, industrial safety, the Manufacturing Resource Planning II (MRPII). Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and HACCP and WQMS.

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About Mars

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 140,000 Associates into taking action e

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