PepsiCo - Manager - Manufacturing

Position Purpose

This position is responsible to lead production team of the concentrate manufacturing to produce safe & defect free concentrates. Position is responsible to ensure uninterrupted supply of Concentrates & to ensure all KPI's are established, met & improved continuously. This position is responsible to implement an improvement based culture on the line. Position is also responsible for ensuring both the resources i.e. People & Equipment are utilized to the best of their capacities & capability building of new resources are in place whenever the need arises. The position is responsible for implementation of all the Documentations which are essential for producing a defect free concentrate & the health & Safety of People

Primary Accountabilities

Incumbent is accountable for leading following key accountabilities:

Manufacturing

- As a position leading bulk of manpower in Channo, driving safety mindset at all levels to deliver Safe operations

- Driving a culture of Zero safety incident mindset. Utilizing tools like Risk assessment for various operations activities to proactively address any impeding human / environmental risk

- Driving operations in strict adherence to Manufacturing Instruction issued by R&D

- Driving a Zero Quality Defect Mindset within the manufacturing team.

- Adherence to Minimum Mandates and maintaining AIB readiness on regular basis by imbibing GMP as core operational value.

- Creating & implementing action plans on Customer Complaints received from Various Bottlers to ensure Zero Repeat.

- Driving Flexibility both in People & assets to meet high surging volumes in South East Asia market.

- Champion the ramp up of new assets to deliver capex commitment

- Drive structured Production planning Meeting for effective production scheduling in consultation with all stake holders thereby ensuring accurate Planning & Timely Delivery of Concentrate Requirements in association with BU planners & Address concerns, resolve/eliminate complaints

- Initiate plans and processes which minimize manufacturing costs through effective utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, materials, and capital.

- Timely review the installed capacities & draft the Infrastructural additions or modifications thus improving process efficiencies & Capacity additions in time.

- Driving loss reduction initiatives through structured Yield Improvement processes and Productivity improvement initiatives

- Co-ordinate with New Product team and BU for the launch and manufacturing of new products as per timelines.

- Raising Infrastructure requirements on 3 year rolling strat plan & execution of same to improve the productivities, efficiencies & meeting supply chain demands with surging volumes.

- Coordinate maintenance including Predictive & break down to ensure smooth operations of manufacturing & no loss of time.

- Coordinate & implement plant resource conservation activities ensuring lower usage of water, fuel & electricity hence serving the generations ahead.

Raw Material Stores

- Managing the Raw Material stores, external raw material warehouse and Engineering stores

- Conducting month end stock taking of Raw materials and OGS stock and drive reconciliation process for any deviation

- Maintain documents related to all inbound materials

- Liaise and maintain healthy relationship with third party partner for External warehouse

- Strategically plan the storage requirement for Raw Materials for site and manage investment plan in advance

- Manage cost of external warehouse as per AOP

People

- Driving positive operations culture within team by proactively addressing genuine grievances

- Coaching the frontline supervisory team for driving high performance frontline team

- Leading the concept of Self Directed Team as part of - Decision at the Point Of Action-

Systems

- As a first point of contact for bottler, good knowledge on business

- Good SAP knowledge

- Pivotal in driving all quality management, safety management and material management system for site.

- Keeping live the inventory of Plant documentations, which includes MI- s, SOPs, Risk Assessments, Quality records etc.

- Understanding process Capability of key equipment and plan for structured intervention

- Driving Cycle count and Ware House Management module in SAP

- Capability to converge on decision making on restricted and block stock along with stakeholders.

OTHER DELIVERABLES

Controls

- MIM controls- Process Owner

- Quality Controls- Support

AIB & Food Safety

- Minimum Mandates

- AIB & Food Safety guidelines

People Management

- Driving skill upgradation of the direct reports as part Skill matrix

- Incorporating a high performance team culture within the team as part of DPOA

- Structured and proactive grievance redressal within the team

- Utilizing R&R tool to effectively engage the team