Factory Director Burton

Title: Factory Director
Reporting into : Ji-Bo Yang
Work Level: WL3X
Location: Burton Factory

About the role

Burton SU is Unilever’s Home of Iconic British Foods, manufacturing the well-known brands of Hellmann’s, Colman’s, Marmite and Bovril.
The factory serves the local business, being the largest Unilever nutrition factory in UK, the unique UL manufacturer of Colman’s Condiments, Colman’s English Mustard, Marmite and Bovril, Pot Noodle Sachets.
With over 200 employees highly committed, Burton is a fast-paced and demanding working environment, producing more than 45kTons a year, improving performance year on year. Key focus areas include people and culture, efficiency through optimisation & digitalisation, delivering improved safety standards and delivering product superiority for the UK condiment cell including Hellmann’s

Main Job Purpose:

The Factory Director is responsible for operating the factory as per agreed standards. S/he designs, sets up and leads manufacturing activities, following the supply chain and BU strategies, to deliver all targets including targets on service, costs, productivity, quality, innovation and OSHE.

Key Accountabilities:

• Deploy and Deliver the annual plan and financial results including targets on service, costs, productivity, quality, innovation and SHE
• Co Design & Recommend long term site strategic plans (Masterplan) to the Nutrition Supply Chain teams.
• Lead site to develop and implement continuous improvement plans to deliver site targets – manufacturing performance management.
• Manage and deliver the site’s financial results: annual budgets, Sourcing Unit Result, conversion costs and create programmes to deliver financial results
• Engage and facilitate the implementation of innovations on site, for products, ways of working, service models and supply chain models
• Propose, agree with Technology & Innovation + Engineering teams and implement the necessary capital investments to meet the planned production requirements, safety, environmental and cost targets.
• Pursue a site long term plan (Masterplan), including restructuring, re-engineering and retrofitting as agreed by VP SC Nutrition. Prioritize and plan resources development and deployment
• Ensure that the technical standards of all manufacturing and non-manufacturing fixed assets are maintained. Enable the factory operation to achieve high level of Customer Service at optimal cost
• Support UMS activities and teams by leading the UMS Steering Committee
• Co-ordinate and direct the factory to achieve the agreed production plans at the specified product quality with optimum labour, energy and materials utilization.
• Co-ordinate and direct the quality management in line with QA system & procedures.
• Lead HR policy deployment and implementation on sites, including management of employee relations.
• Continue to build the momentum of the people and culture agenda in Burton promoting speak up nature and creating psychological safety
• Ensure effective local stakeholder management and community issues aligned with Unilever policies
• Guard and ensure the application of all Unilever Policies and governance requirements.
• Lead on initiatives and projects aiming for sites integration and collaborative work along the extended supply chain

Experience Required:

• 8- 10 Years experience in Supply Chain (Make/Technology, SHE, Quality are must, additionally Plan)
PREFERRED
• FMCG experience

Travel:
Travels occasionally (less than once a quarter). Rather welcome visitors & auditors (several times a quarter)

Stakeholders:

Internal:
• All SC Departments in Unilever at BU level (Planning, T&I, Engineering, Quality, SHE…)
• Other Departments (Finance, HR,…etc)
• Burton Trade Union
• Regional & Global organizations - Teams (R&D / Procurement…)
• Reward / Legal/ Corporate Affairs
• Unilever factories and UK MSO

External:
• Material Suppliers
• Engineering, Utility and Equipment Suppliers, Contractors
• Local Authorities