Operations Transformation Lead

Position Job Title:                  Operations Transformation Lead

BG and BU:                             Amcor Flexibles, Europe, Middle East & Africa (AFEMEA)

Function:                                Operations

Sub-Function:                         Operational Excellence

Location:                                Flexible within Europe

Line Manager’s Job Title:       Operations Plus (O+) Transformation Senior Manager

Advertising Legal Entity:         Amcor Group GmbH

Work contract Legal Entity:     Contract will be issued accordingly with legal requirements and legal entity of the hiring country

Contract Length:                    Permanent

Job Purpose

Amcor’s aspiration is to be renowned as the Flexibles industry leader in Operational Excellence.  The Operations Plus Program will drive significant and sustainable competitive advantage across the value chain to generate top and bottom line growth.

In addition to delivering gold standard performance, demonstrated through standardising the way AFEMEA operates and having key performance indicators, the AFEMEA Operations Plus team together with the X-BG team will build and champion best-in-class operational capabilities.

This industry leading performance will be underpinned by implementing the IWS/O+ production system, systematic collaboration across the Operational Excellence network and a ‘’One Amcor’’ approach across the global Flexibles business and beyond.

The Operations Plus Lead will play a critical role in the delivery of this step change in Operational Excellence within the manufacturing sites; he / she will challenge accepted thinking, create a culture and way of working focused on IWS/O+ and move the needle fast through standardised implementation and support for sites.

He / She will act as a Business Group IWS/O+ trainer and coach according to the cell structure and will be responsible for successful roll-out and local implementations of the program. Ensures that he/she can act as well as back-up for the other O+ colleagues during an implementation.

Principal Accountabilities

• Drive of the Operations Plus transformation efforts with the sites chosen for the RTT/O+ journey
• Diagnose plants and set aspirational improvement targets
• Design and plan the plant transformations within the O+ team
• Lead AFEMEA towards O+ maturity journey in a sustainable way
• Be a BG trainer and coach for the IWS/O+ principles in line with the cell structure
• Collaborate pro-actively with teams across the global Flexibles business to leverage best practice and drive a ‘’One Amcor’’ approach
• Reducing variability amongst AFEMEA O+ sites through O+ RTT implementation
• Subject Matter Expert for their respective Pillar or DMS
• Acting as a back-up to the other central O+ Lead colleagues
• Coach and promote the elimination of breakdown as well as performance and process related losses with the team
• Perform health checks
• Develop and roll out golden operational and organizational standard for a line configuration
• Own and continuously improve operations Plus Standards (e.g CILs, CLs, CO, MP&S,…)
• Help to manage and develop and document the O+ tools, standards and best practices
• Introduce and apply appropriate tools, methodologies and best practices as trained by EY or the O+ team members
• Engage, in conjunction with the Performance Boost team, BU CI Leaders, Technical team, the site management teams, their teams and key stakeholders in the transformation effort
• Communicate progress and celebrate success
• Provide a platform to engage co-workers and contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement and front line empowerment
• Mentor and support all co-workers in up-skilling
• Ad hoc Support on projects in line with the plan
• Be involved in initiatives to provide feedback as part of the design reviews and Readiness Assessment

Major Challenges & Complexities

• Support a change agenda which is new, as part of a new team, the new ways of working, and which comes with high aspirations and expectations
• Support moving the needle fast in an environment where ways of working are established and business performance is regarded as successful
• Working aligned with the global Amcor team and apply ways of working and standards in AFEMEA

Qualifications/Requirements

1. Formal Qualifications and Experience

• 5 + years of experience in Operations, Operations Excellence, IWS or similar manufacturing systems
• Experience on supporting significant change / transformation projects within manufacturing environment
• Degree in a science, technology or engineering subject preferred; advanced degree advantageous.

2.  Specific Skills And Abilities

• Genuine passion for this mission to transform Amcor’s Flexibles manufacturing globally
• Fluent spoken and written English; other languages advantageous e.g. French and German
• Change management
• Lives and demonstrates Servant leadership
• Ambition for high standards and challenging objectives
• Strive for progress rather than perfection, action oriented
• Skilled communicator, facilitator and trainer
• Deep knowledge of IWS/O+ processes and materials
• Cross cultural sensitivity
• Change Management
• Can manage uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity
• Customer orientation
• Drive and energy
• Hands-on, action and results oriented
• Pragmatic
• Problem-solver
• Analytical and structured
• Can simplify complexity
• Can work under pressure
• Collaborative
• Willingness to travel circa up to 90% within AMCOR, depending on business workload needs

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