Advisor, Protein Performance Enablement

Job Purpose and Impact

The Performance Enablement Advisor role will provide advanced knowledge and thought leadership to execute the strategic implementation and maturity of production excellence processes. supply chain excellence, CI and management systems focused on driving operational performance and value capture across manufacturing plants. In this role, you will ensure alignment of key operational metrics including safety, quality, delivery, cost and productivity, as well as the related practices, priorities and technologies with the strategy and goals defined by the business and functions. You will drive continuous improvement across operations and focus on outcomes that support customer expectations. You will provide advanced knowledge and thought leadership and oversight for the value capture portfolio.

Key Accountabilities

• Advise on the deployment of production excellence processes within facilities to ensure successful and sustained process deployments and drive the improvement of key production excellence metrics to ensure successful and sustained outcomes.
• Foster a culture that designs, builds, operates and maintains plants that are operationally sound, safe and efficient by leveraging and championing leading operational practices and raises performance by monitoring key performance indicators of safety, quality, delivery, cost and productivity.
• Drive sub region/business TMO project, overall manage cost reductions activities in the business as well as pipeline to 2030.
• Assist MSC lead to organize and facilitate AOP and KPI process of the new fiscal year.
• Assist MSC lead to facilitate IMEX meeting and TMO meetings.
• Partner collaboratively with stakeholders for production excellence and supply chain process improvement and ensure consistent process standards across the organization, driving the use of data and analytics to increase operational intelligence to drive sustainable production efficiency.
• Execute operational and strategic plans throughout plants and leads the deployment of value capture, portfolio and continuous improvement tools, aligning the portfolio of initiatives to the gaps in performance though routine monitoring and analysis of performance gaps.
• Prioritize, support and deploy leading practices and ensure proper implementation, driving process confirmation efforts and align leading practice implementation, driving mature value creation processes with project pipelines and execution capacity to deliver expected productivity results.
• Assess the solution program effectiveness and overall business impact and track the performance to established goals and promote the long term sustainability of process improvement and best practices and assist operations managers with interpreting data and productivity metrics.
• Drive the implementation of smart manufacturing and digital solutions in the production space partnering collaboratively with smart manufacturing leads and process engineers to ensure alignment of tools and processes.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor. Enable operation people to improve the capability by providing coaching and trainings.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Lean six sigma
• Project portfolio and governance skills from identifying and aligning value drivers to govern a portfolio
• Operational excellence knowledge
• Experience with management system and technical gap assessments and solution identification
• Minimum of eight years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply
• English speaking in both oral and written

• Black belt certification preferred
• Proficiency with spreadsheet and database applications and modelling tools