Operational Excellence & Digitalization Director

• Establish the Site PMO to help support Program/Project execution (measure and track outcomes), monitor risks and ensure prioritization and alignment of organizational goals and strategies.
• Lead and manage the implementation of the Operational Excellence Program to identify and complete business process improvement projects across all functions.
• Develop organizational capabilities to become a flexible operation focusing on business efficiency, customer service, quality mindset, continuous improvement, and competitiveness to become a high-performance organization.
• Manage & lead team of direct/indirect reports to deliver improvement projects in the plant and across CPS.
• Ensure sustainable PI growth in an increasing complex environment identifying capacity constraints to manage, plan and implement investments on infrastructure capabilities to support future business requirements.
• Establish measurements and reporting systems to track efficiencies gained through process improvement initiatives.
• Train, mentor and coach process improvement teams throughout the organization to achieve required OE certification Levels within Egypt and globally as necessary.
• Deploy process methodology and OE tools and ensure consistent and sustainable application.
• Establish a network of Lean contacts to import and export good practices and benchmarking within and outside of the system and drive cross functional replications.
• Provide input and recommendations for continuous improvement in processes and overall improvement initiatives.
• Develop improvement standards ensuring consistent approach and application among all teams.
• Review progress of project teams against goals and objectives, analyze and monitor operational data to maintain course of actions with performance measurements.
• Coordinate site KBI Process “Tier metrics”. Analyze business results and trend charts to help management taking the needed decisions.
• Identify problems and provide feedback, coaching and follow up to ensure effective resolution. Recognize barriers to efforts and work to eliminate them.
• Develop and execute communication plans to increase awareness and commitment to driving performance.
• Schedule and facilitate working sessions to resolve issues, mitigate risks and set priorities for improvements.
• Lead the implementation and sustainability of Continuous Improvement activities & OE implementation across all functions and engaging all associates.
• Monitor and track OEE in all plant resources and drive performance forward.
• Represent the plant in the Global OE forums.
• Prepare procedures, reports and presentations for OE to Site and Senior LT.
• Comply with Company Requirements; policies, regulations and International Standards ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 17025, ISO 18001, FSSC 22000, Coca-Cola Quality System E3 and WPR Policy.
• Monitor and regularly review EOHS performance.
• Implement EOHS policies and procedures endorsed by TCCC, legal authorities and/or international standards (OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001).
• Use risk assessment approach to ensure that safe workplace is provided for all staff.
• Ensure all hazards and incidents are reported and investigated appropriately and suitable controls are implemented.
• Helping ensure the day-to-day continuous improvement activities result in a continuous improvement in the Site Performance towards the goal of key site objectives.
• Lead Plant of the Future annually deep dive diagnostics activity to support plan transformation plans and ensure yearly PI opportunities implementation and use cases deployment.
• Responsible for Cycle time measurement, validation, and bottle neck analysis in operational areas.
• Leading and coaching in Zoning & 5S as well as Standard work deployment Kaizens to support GMP.
• Facilitate Investigations & problem solving for productivity issues with considering error proofing system & CAPA.
• Support day-to-day deployment of the OE and performance improvement activities at site. Deliver according to the OE implementation approach / road map.
• Support continuous capability development of self and others, developed by the Global CPS OE community.
• Track progress of the team deployment of OE tools implementation
• Support in dashboards creation/dashboards & APPs maintenance.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Science, Pharmacy or related disciplines.
• English & Arabic Proficiency.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment, including management and leadership experience.
• Certification belt in Lean / Six Sigma and Project Management.
• Excellent Problem Solving and Decision-Making Skills, problem solving tools.
• Business, manufacturing and supply chain knowledge.
• Financial basics and data analysis.

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