Manufacturing Excellence Lead

at  Unilever

WHO WE ARE?

On any given day, 2.5 billion people globally use Unilever products to feel good, look good and get more out of life. Many of our brands are well-known, household staples and old-time favourites including Dove, Rexona, Lynx, Vaseline, OMO/Persil, Surf, TRESemmé, Continental, Ben & Jerry’s and Streets.
We have a long tradition of being a progressive, responsible business. It goes back to the days of our founder William Lever, who launched the world’s first purposeful brand, Sunlight Soap more than 100 years ago, and it’s at the heart of how we run our company today. In 2022 Unilever Australia & New Zealand became a Certified B Corporation™ (B Corp), joining a growing network of organisations committed to galvanising a stronger, more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy for all.
Unilever North Rocks Supply Chain Sourcing Unit was established in late 1960s and is dedicated to the production of Home & Personal Care products for the local Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) markets as well as Aerosols for the Asia export market. We produce leading household brands including Rexona, Impulse, Omo, Surf, Dove & Tresemme. The Sourcing Unit is continually transforming to remain competitive in the market and has recently built a new Laundry Capsules Factory in addition to the Liquids and Aerosols factories.
A job at Unilever is a career made by you, with development opportunities, benefits and a working culture that embraces diversity and is pioneering flexibility. There’s no better time to join our team!
At Unilever ANZ, we have also embarked on something special: we are proud to be undertaking a 4 Day work week trial. This trial will see our staff retain 100 percent of their salaries, while working 80 percent of the time and delivering 100 percent of business outcomes. The Manufacturing Excellence Lead is designed to be fully functional in the 4-Day work week trial.

JOB SUMMARY

Design and delivery of the site deployment of Unilever Manufacturing System Excellence programmes in alignment with the site 3-to-5-year vision as defined on the North Rocks Masterplan.

• Align the deployment of Unilever Manufacturing System (UMS) to support the site and BU objectives for improvement across a balanced scorecard.
• Analysing processes to generate insights (issues/opportunities) and recommend business improvement opportunities.
• Gathering and interpreting information from a range of sources, through modelling data and processes to identify and recommend solutions.
• Work with teams across the business to understand the current state to identify opportunities to standardise and streamline people processes.
• Apply best practices and appropriate methodologies to process improvement recommendations.
• A strong ability to coach, train and influence stakeholders.
• Passion for people and ability to work collaboratively cross- functionally to support business goals.
• Support the development of organizational capability in Focused Improvement and Run to Standard (R2S) Process Engineering capability.