Manufacturing Excellence Director

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We're committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we'll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the role:

The Director of Manufacturing Excellence is a critical strategic leadership role responsible for driving continuous improvement, operational standardization, and performance enhancement across Diageo's North American manufacturing facilities. This role is pivotal in transforming manufacturing capabilities through structured methodologies, capability building, and cultural change management.

Role Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement a comprehensive Manufacturing Excellence strategy aligned with Diageo's North American conversion objectives
• Lead the implementation of Excellence in Supply Chain (EISC) MAKE Systems
• Create and maintain a strategic roadmap for continuous improvement initiatives
• Develop key performance indicators (critical metrics) to measure Manufacturing Excellence impact

Best Practices Implementation

• Design and deploy standardized work methodologies across North American conversion sites
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive best in class practices repository
• Implement benchmarking processes to identify improvement opportunities
• Create and manage a knowledge sharing platform for best in class practices

Capability Building and Talent Development

Skill Enhancement

• Design a comprehensive up-skilling program targeting:

- Operators

- Craftspeople

- Team Leaders

• Develop competency frameworks for each manufacturing role
• Create personalized learning and development paths

Experience / skills required:

Soft Skills

• Exceptional coaching and mentoring abilities
• Resilience and change adaptability
• Systems thinking approach
• Emotional intelligence
• Continuous learning attitude

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• [Recruiter to list relevant market/region benefits].

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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