Coca-Cola Kwanza Ltd. is offering an interesting opportunity in the manufacturing area. We are seeking a competent candidate with suitable skills, experience, and knowledge in manufacturing, supply chain management, and packaging to work in Mbeya. The selected individual will be reporting directly to the manufacturing director.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
The job will oversee the whole manufacturing scope, including engineering, safety, health, environment, and quality (SHEQ), and utilities. The job is in charge of managing these tasks as well as providing leadership to the functional heads in manufacturing.
The position will also be responsible for:
- Create plant business and implementation strategies to meet the region’s and CCBA’s customer service and productivity goals.
- Ensure that productivity and budgetary targets are reached.
- Ensure that customer service goals are satisfied.
- Work closely with Logistics to guarantee systematic and strategic coordination of all Supply Chain business operations, resulting in continual improvement of long-term performance for both the supply chain and the value chain as a whole.
- Manage the manufacturing elements of operational execution, including material flow, production, and other supporting activities.
- The primary emphasis is on execution, efficiency, and added value, or the end-customer’s perception of value. Manufacturing efficiency must be raised and bottlenecks eliminated.
- Management and upkeep of manufacturing assets in a productive basic state
- Direct the implementation and administration of the supply chain.
Skills, Experience, & Education:
The position requires a degree in mechanical or electrical engineering. The incumbent should additionally possess:
- About ten years of relevant company experience.
- At least five years as a senior manager.
- Strong track record of achieving outcomes in a manufacturing setting.
- Strong grasp of the supply chain process
- Knowledge of business and management concepts applied to strategic planning, resource allocation, human resource modeling, leadership techniques, production methodologies, and people and resource coordination.
- Proven track record of managing employee engagement.
- Contributing to senior management teams: Actively contributing as a dedicated member of the leadership team and collaborating with different departments to assist the organization achieve its goals and objectives.
- Bias for action, drives for results, and prioritizes outcomes over activities
- A strategic and sophisticated thinker who can combine complicated knowledge from numerous sources and develop innovative solutions to problems.
- Ability to prioritize
- Strategic agility is the ability to transform vision and strategy into personal and team priorities, as well as everyday workplace actions.
- The ability to lead and influence ideas and people by expressing a compelling and inspiring vision, as well as motivating and mobilizing individuals and parties towards a shared objective.
- The ability to cope with uncertainty and be content with the unknown.
- Strong stakeholder interaction, including persuading and challenging skills.
- Evidence of the capacity to regularly make sound judgments by combining analysis, knowledge, experience, and judgment.
- Holding individuals responsible and developing/leading high-performing teams.
- Managing and Leading Change
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to build connections and interact with all levels of management and personnel.
- Ability to collaborate successfully across departments, business units, and teams.
- Integrity, credibility, diplomacy, consistency, confidence, resilience, tenacity, humility, stature, and an outstanding personal reputation are all essential qualities in this position.
- Understanding of the business environment and the capacity to respond appropriately to developing challenges that may have an influence on the company’s operations.
- Problem solver with an inventive, resourceful, and practical attitude.
- High resilience and tenacity.
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General:
The incumbent shall be required to demonstrate;
- Business plan development
- Budgeting and performance management.
- Productivity and cost analysis.
- Spend coordination.
- Aligning and directing resources to satisfy customer service needs.
- General guidance of the workforce to fulfill output targets.
- Continuous improvement.
- Workforce management and guidance.