Product Care Manager

Permanent

Job Description

Business Unit - R&D

Reports To – R&D Food Preparation Manager Egypt,

Your Role

Ensure implementation and continuous improvement of existing products in terms of cost reduction, quality improvement, sustainability and  provide technical support to the factory on short-term product related problems according to group strategies.        

A Typical Day

• Implement group strategy and create input for strategic planning on cost & quality and drives the cost out pipeline.
• Plan and implement local DM efficiency and action plans
• Plan and implement local SCR improvement action plans
• Maintain and lead cross-local activities for cost out & quality improvement.
• Support Plants in solving daily manufacturing problems
• Reference person for Plant Manager and MT being the interface of R&D towards factory"                                 
• Support ramp-up of projects
• Responsible for PC process where is applicable, PCR,concession, transferplan(CP3)
• Collaborate and support with key interface Purchasing, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering and Product Line.            
• Participate in platform & project teams                                  
• Drive and create lessons learnt cases for knowledge management where is applicable.                 
• Provide technical support to factory on product related problem.                 
• Train and maintain IQ & EMS process
• Budget local cost center and employee responsibility for the assigned team, prepare salary review and drive performance talk and talent reviews where is applicable.
• Support IP knowledge creation process with Food Preparation where is applicable.
• Responsible for team members development and talent pipeline.     
• Responsible for competences development and resource allocation:
• Quality                       
• Cost                            
• Drawing, technical specialist to support SME team where is applicable.                                

Who You Are

• Product Development & production processes                      
• Advanced knowledge of cooking processes and consumer insights.             
• Product cost accounting & reporting                         
• Quality tools & reporting                                
• Engineering change process                          
• Project Management
• IQ & EMS deep understanding
• Legal/standard requirement for products
• Leadership skills

Core Competencies

• Proactive, driven and creative/innovation-oriented approach
• Structured and consumer-oriented approach            
• Has a clear yes we can approach to deliver targets  
• Advanced English and communication skills. 
• Team Working Capabilities
• Strong self-motivation to learn and improve
• Willing to work in a cooperate approach and matrix organization
• Working in an international environment
• Attitude for continuous improvement
• Willing to Travel if necessary
• Respect of culture diversities

Keeping you Healthy and Safe

We want you to return home in even better shape than when you started, so we need you to help us do this by making sure you follow a few simple steps. We need you to:

• Make sure you take reasonable care for your own health and safety, and
• Take reasonable care that what you do (or what you don’t do when you should have) doesn’t affect the health and safety of others, and
• Follow reasonable instructions that we might give from time-to-time, such as reporting incidents and hazards, and
• Follow policies or procedures, so long as it’s reasonable and we’ve told you about it, and
• Attend training that helps you to work safely