Strategy and Digital Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead the five-year plant strategy process, ensuring a robust roadmap is in place to meet organizational growth and performance targets.
• Lead and coordinate short and long term capacity planning and road maps aligned with strategic sourcing and cost savings initiatives.
• Maintain factory capacity utilization models following the release of monthly forecasts.
• Partner with Division Network Operations to drive the timely and accurate collection of plant volume data for Budget and Latest Estimate (LE) reviews.
• Develop and drive strategies for product and material portfolio simplification to improve plant performance and resilience.
• Lead and Coordinate the Funding The Growth Program to achieve savings targets (Coordinate Brainstorming Activities, Projects, go / no go decisions, benchmarking)
• Develop and execute the plant-specific digital roadmap, aligning global/divisional/Plant initiatives to transition the plant from traditional to digital operations aligning with the key pillars of Industry 4.0.
• Act as the central gatekeeper for all plant-level digital requests and technology needs.
• Drive the cultural shift toward digital ways of working through structured training, communication, and building a network of digital champions.
• Enforce an "Adopt-First" mindset, ensuring global or division tools are utilized before any local "self-service" development begins.
• Drive the utilization of both operational advanced analytics at all levels in the site to optimize production, minimize waste, and improve process efficiencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or analytical discipline.
• 8+ years of manufacturing, production, or operations experience.
• Experience using strong analytical skills and working knowledge of databases and spreadsheets.
• Experience in Manufacturing Operations, Logistics, Planning, Quality, Safety, or Finance.