AddressDays based role – Monday – Friday
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 26 days and 8 bank holidays
- Annual Pay review
- Employer pension matched up to 6% (12% total contributory)
- X4 annual salary life assurance cover
- Annual bonus
- Free parking on site and electric car charging
- Bupa Healthcare cover
- Flexible Benefits- buy up to 5 days annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.
- Subsidized staff canteen
- Access to discounted Arla products
Are you looking for a career opportunity where you lead business improvements through lean and change management within our supply chain? Look no further, make use of your experience in lean tools and production as you lead optimisation at one of our key UK manufacturing sites to help encourage a world-class supply chain.
The role will primarily be based at our Stourton Dairy in Leeds with occasional travel within the UK and Europe.
What does the role involve?
As a Production Optimisation Business Partner you will work on a range of high impact improvement initiatives, initially at our Stourton Dairy in Leeds. You will be the subject matter expert on site in tools and processes in the Arla Production System, acting as the link between site and the Centre of Excellence.
- Embed the Digital strategy for Supply Chain as part of the Arla Production System (APS) to enable full Productivity potential
- Secure long term sustainability of the improvements, building of a culture of coaching and process confirmation.
- Install a line centric organization to embed a mindset & behaviour based on continuous operational excellence
- Support site leadership team in development of a yearly implementation plan
- Deploy concepts and tools from Arla Production System at site according to site TIP and directives from center of excellences.
- Establish a CI culture
- Support site in identification and delivery of key initiatives to secure reaching gross savings targets.
- Participate in project activities like roll-outs and boost activities
- Identify continuous improvement talent and host colleagues from other sites
- Assure the leverage of talent within initiatives
Skills
You will bring experience from your previous roles within FMCG. You will ideally have a formal qualification within LEAN manufacturing (such as LEAN Six Sigma or a TPM formal qualification).
The successful candidate will have the ability to act as a true Business Partner to the Site Directors which will require you to challenge and probe to find the right solution. You bring high energy and drive but also the patience, persistence and empathy that is required to deliver a major transformation project. Further, you have excellent coaching skills and use these successfully to deliver short and long term change.
Next Steps
Please submit your application by Friday 12th April 2024. For more information please reach out to Rachel McDaid, Senior Talent Partner (ramci@arlafoods.com)
Please note we are not partnered with any recruitment agencies for this role. We kindly ask that recruitment agencies do not submit CVs on behalf of candidates for this role, as these CVs will not be considered under the agency ownership and if Arla does progress with any such candidate, this will not amount to acceptance of the agency's terms. We encourage interested individuals to apply directly through our official channels.
We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?
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