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Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Job Description

Reporting to Global Asset Director, the Asset Capacity Engineer provides strategic insight, project leadership, and proposals on critical initiatives and investment decisions that connect market facing strategies with core operations. 

You'll be accountable for delivering year over year revenue and profit growth for their respective asset categories (~$200MM – $500MM in annual revenue) by developing strategies that enable profitable growth, improve productivity, increase asset utilization, guide and prioritize utilization of functional resources, drive core product offerings and complexity reduction for the assigned asset category

An Asset Category is a subset of an asset group and typically are manufactured by multiple business units and serve most or all market segments. They broadly consist of a suite of products which have similar value streams, end use applications, assets and strategic technologies. 

There are ~15 Asset Categories within Amcor Flexibles North America (AFNA).  There are several asset categories within the four Product Group (Bags & Pouched, Rigid & Thermoformed, Printed & Laminated, and Extruded products). 

The role serves to be the one source of truth regarding the company’s Asset Category.  This role collaborates closely with market segments, product development, and the respective manufacturing facilities on the development and execution of strategic initiatives to meet market needs and exceed financial performance targets.  

The Scope of these roles impact $200 - $500 million in annual revenue.  Asset categories will always span multiple Business Units (BU) and multiple market segments.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

Financial Results

• Accountable for driving year over year revenue and profit growth of the business Asset Categories

• Accountable for maximizing business results by optimizing assets and technologies, and delivering against annual operating plans and long-term strategic plans

Network Planning

• Aggregate opportunity pipelines by the respective asset category.  Partner with supply chain to create a network view of the capacity.   Provide long-term forecasting for asset categories which inform market strategies, customer bid/deal strategies, and strategic capital investments

• Evaluate plant and asset performance against peers.  Drive relevant value streams to the best in class operational position by building recapitalization strategies and deploying central resources to lead best practice teams.

• With the network expertise and financial analysis build a pipeline of opportunities to maximize AFNA’s best assets.  Bring recommendations forward for AFNA leadership’s approval

• Provide business leadership to Manufacturing Process Improvement (MPI) and Process Development to ensure strategic alignment of prioritized projects by validating business cases for respective Asset Groups

• Accountable for determining asset placement in AFNA’s manufacturing network for respective asset groups.

• Responsible for the creation of business plans associated with any substantive capital investment with respective asset groups.

• Participate in AFNA’s plant profit teams to lead strategies and projects which improve the plants revenue or operational position.

Simplification

• Lead core specification definition, standardization, and unification within the Asset Group aimed at reducing operational complexity, increasing organizational speed and profit. 

• Reduce listings of low volume and operationally complex or cost inefficient specifications as appropriate and institutionalize business rules to govern core specification management.

• Lead the development of a sustainable, commercial team approach to quoting and selling standard/core specifications across market segments.

Growth Enablement

• Provide the business capacity transparency with a view to relevant asset categories and network capacity to manufacture

• Guide the commercial teams on the profit impacts of customer negotiations.  Support the targeting optimal opportunities when considering AFNA’s capability, capacity, and operational position within the relevant asset group.

• In partnership with Marketing and R&D use a common approach to developing strategic, multi-generation asset plans for relevant platforms within a asset Category.  Determine common capability, capacity, or operational constraints across AFNA.  Develop and lead strategies to mitigate which maximize AFNA’s growth and profit potential

• Develop and lead strategies to operationalize platform introductions which are common to multiple business segments (e.g. sustainable platforms).  Prioritize segments where necessary.

• Lead competitive operation benchmarking of capability, quality, service, and cost.  Build generational strategies to close gaps or extend lead for relevant asset categories. 

WHAT WE VALUE

• Results Orientation

• Collaborative Relationships and Influencing Others

• Asset/ Technology Knowledge

• Strategic Orientation

• Developing Organizational Capability

• Teamwork

• Market Knowledge

• Change Leadership

• Communication / Interpersonal Skills

• Business Acumen

• Team Leadership

• Analytical Thinking

• Financial Acumen

• Energy and Execution

WHAT WE WANT FROM YOU

• BA (MBA preferred) in Business, Engineering, Operations, or related field

• 5-10 years of experience in some or all of Operations, Marketing, Engineering or R&D

• Leadership experience

• Experience in working in a Multi-national Corporation (MNC) environment, ideally packaging or Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturing industry

• Experienced effective communicator in front of senior audience level

• Known for supporting strong customer partnerships

Our Expectations

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor’s quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor’s consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor’s leadership and products

Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Benefits

When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees

• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year and may vary by location

• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program

• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits

• Paid Parental Leave

• Retirement Savings Plan with company match

• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)