Value Stream Support Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and development to your team, guiding their career progression through thoughtful performance evaluations and continuous coaching.
• Beyond your team, you will be a visible and influential leader across the entire site and be a role-model for the behaviors outlined in our Five Principles.
• Leadership Team member providing strategic planning, organizational development with a focus on short- and long-term goals.
• Manage (direct/indirect) daily logistics functions for material storage and material supply and consumption up to the production lines and deployment and shipping of finished products.
• Manage plant scheduler functions ensuring production schedules are maintained to optimize customer service.
• Analyze customer demand data from SAP into actionable production plans and ensure on-time execution by production departments to meet all schedule deadlines.
• Develop and implement strategies for optimizing inventory levels on raw materials and packaging materials to meet the production demands.
• Recommend and implement improvements to methods, equipment, systems and organization as needed to ensure that the objectives of the area and plant are met.
• Partner with Regional and Global Procurement group as a technical resource for annual ingredient contracts, supply and demand issues. Identify new suppliers, resolve issues with supplier performance, negotiate pricing and building supplier relationships.
• Manage quality release process for all raw ingredients, packaging materials, Site Sanitation and GMP programs in partnership with Q&FS.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor's degree3+ years of experience in similar role with progressive procurement or materials management experience in a production, manufacturing or distribution environment.
• 2+ years of people leadership
• Demonstrated leadership and strategic planning skills
• Able to deliver critical performance feedback and hold associates accountable to business objectives
• Knowledge of SAP and able to lead others in troubleshooting system issues and discrepancies
• Functional knowledge and understanding of health, safety and environmental practices; and quality management and food safety principles
• Proven track record of building strong business relationships, solving problems with a sense of urgency, and the ability to work well with associates at any level
• Exceptional communication abilities in order to work effectively with numerous internal departments and external resources

Skills

• Strategic thinking
• Hands-on leadership
• Effective communication

Benefits

• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles
• Join a purpose-driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today
• A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University
• An industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus