Responsibilities

• Partner with manufacturing leadership to provide commercial insights, constructive challenge and recommendations that improve operational performance.
• Analyse key manufacturing performance drivers, including labour productivity, overtime, waste, yield, material usage, conversion costs and operational efficiency.
• Identify and investigate manufacturing variances, translating complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering and Continuous Improvement teams to identify, quantify and deliver sustainable cost and productivity improvements.
• Prepare and interpret weekly manufacturing performance reporting, highlighting risks, opportunities and key operational trends.
• Support month-end reporting, budgeting and forecasting, ensuring financial performance is clearly understood by operational stakeholders.
• Provide commercial analysis of capital investment proposals, operational improvement initiatives and associated financial returns.
• Support standard costing, inventory analysis, product costing and manufacturing cost management.
• Leverage ERP systems, advanced Excel and reporting tools to improve data visibility, reporting quality and decision-making.
• Lead and mentor a small team of analysts.
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