Opex and Strategic Projects Manager

vor 2 Monaten

Lachen, Schweiz The Estée Lauder Companies Vollzeit

With a diverse portfolio of more than 20 brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories, Estée Lauder Companies is the global leader in prestige beauty, recognized for its skincare, make-up, fragrances, and hair care products. In Switzerland, Estée Lauder has the main Supply Chain Hub for Travel Retail and EMEA, offering many opportunities across multiple functions to grow your career and become part of our amazing Supply Chain teams.
Due to our continued growth, we are now hiring an Operational Excellence and Strategic Project Manager for our team based in Lachen, Switzerland. This role requires two expertise, on one side experience in Operational excellence as the role requires infusing the lean methodology into the factory and also experience in managing engineering projects.

The Operational Excellence and Strategic Project Manager will lead the site Opex strategy and team. Additionally, s/he will provide support and resources, as necessary, to support the growth of the Continuous Improvement culture at the site while importing and exporting ideas from the global Operational Excellence community. On the project side, s/he will be responsible for delivering end-to-end projects in connection with the global engineering team.

Main responsibilities:

- Responsible for facilitating the development and governance of the Factory Operational Masterplan (OMP)
Subject Matter Expert who leads in the use of the Lean tools with a comprehensive knowledge of the philosophy, utilizes PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) and DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) methodologies to successfully lead and direct completion of continuous improvement projects within a given timeframe to meet the department or facility goals in productivity, quality, efficiency, and safety.
- Manages the team of Opex professionals in driving best practices in Opex and engineering.
- Communicates overall status of Operational Excellence agenda to site/regional/global manufacturing and business leadership teams.
- Leads manufacturing, engineering, facilities, warehouse operations, production planning, and quality teams in CI disciplines and processes to accomplish assigned stated CI projects, cost reduction and process improvements.
Through active participation and shop floor engagement, supports proactive performance management and the daily monitoring of KPIs.
- Supports weekly and monthly performance monitoring, analysis, and reporting as well as monthly reporting of completed LEAN and CI projects.
- Responsible for building, coaching, training, and assessing Manufacturing teams on Operational Excellence toolbox, Green-/Blackbelt certification, project management skills, and process improvement initiatives with the overarching goal of instilling a permanent CI culture in the organization.
- Implement and maintain the Prestige Performance System at the site.
Leads end-to-end site’s strategic projects autonomously by engaging with the right stakeholders, delivering pristine results on time and within budget.
- Manages site CAPEX budget and aligns with the global team on priorities.
- Communicates with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful project execution (global engineering team, purchasing team, suppliers, vendors )
- Supports Commercialization efforts through personal engagement to optimize new and changed products and technologies.
- Supports Value Realization and Optimization (‘VR & O’) efforts by providing resources and leading site efforts for key corporate VR & O initiatives.
- Hires, develops, assesses, and promotes the team members to ensure efficient succession planning.

**Qualifications**
- Master’s degree ideally in Manufacturing / Engineering or Business
- 5-10 years of experience in Operations, Supply Chain or hands-on Continuous Improvement required.
- Proficiency in TPM Autonomous Maintenance steps 1-3 is preferred.
- Six Sigma Green or Black Belt Certification or comparable is preferred
- Proven successful manufacturing OPEX experience in similar industries
- Proven track record of building, delivering, managing, and achieving a plan that would support business performance
- Proven track record of leading end-to-end strategic projects in Manufacturing, NPDI (New Product Development and Innovation), or similar functions.
- Develops, implements, and manages change
- Strong problem-solving skills including situational analysis. Trains, leads, and facilitates multiple team Kaizen events
- Ability to drive process improvement and effectiveness through simplification and holistic, end-to-end optimization
- Excellent conceptual and analytical skills, high degree of autonomy, flexibility and penchant for teamwork
- Strong planning and organizational skills with a sense of priority for deadlines and attention to detail
- Good communication skills, team player, detail-oriented, proactive, driven to deliver results, and adaptable
- Strong negotiation skills and the ability to confidently lead and in

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