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Nestle
Market Manufacturing Excellence Manager
Babelegi,South Africa11 March 2026
Opens the official application page on jobdetails.nestle.com
Location
Babelegi,South Africa
Job type
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Job overview
In this role you will be responsible for supporting the T&P Team to achieve World-Class Manufacturing Excellence by leveraging Manufacturing practices to improve business results in a continuous and sustainable manner and ultimately help Nestlé and its market become a Lean Enterprise.
The Market Manufacturing Excellence Manager consistently drives the implementation of NCE and standards in manufacturing across the Market/Region ensuring the alignment with NCE initiatives.
A day in the life of a Market Manufacturing Excellence Manager:
Strategic plan development and management:
Help T&P community to improve business profitability and optimize cash flow to support business growth by applying Manufacturing Methodologies within the market.
Helps to translate the Market Business priorities and function priorities into the T&P objectives.
Ensures the right cascading of priorities and measures from the Market T&P OMP to the Factories.
Defines and embeds NCE projects and initiatives into Market T&P OMP to deliver T&P objectives and align functions towards the plan
Establish Market governance to ensure that NCE implementation contributes to deliver business results.
Connect with other functions in the Market to define how they could contribute together to accelerate TDC Optimization
Leads the capacity utilization studies in the market and develops the projects portfolio to ensure the service of the products at the best cost
Establish a best-in-class structure for the different factories and establish and agrees in the milestones with the factories to achieve it.
Translate MBS into Operational Master Plan, gain buy in of BEMs / Supply Chain Manager, align technical function to ensure effective execution of plan
Establish adequate competencies for Manufacturing Excellence in the Market
Creates and owns the NCE market in Manufacturing competency building plan that ensures NCE is developing autonomy at all levels of the T&P organization.
Stewards, trains, supports and coaches Factory Leadership Teams in the NCE in Manufacturing competencies (e.g.GA, FI, LVS, AM) and applicable manufacturing standards.
Develops competency of Market T&P team, supporting them to apply methodologies to improve and sustain results (e.g. all NCE methodologies, Value Added Activities, Workload studies, etc.);
Supports the development of the career succession planning of the Market Manufacturing Excellence community.
Help factories to drive and execute Manufacturing Excellence to improve and sustain results.
Promotes and supports cross-fertilization of NCE best practices, knowledge, standards and improvements across Factories in the Market, within other Markets and categories.
Ensures an overall understanding of the different NCE methodologies (pillars) within the functions and how they integrate through the NCE implementation plan avoiding silo working.
Conducts specific projects to support results improvement around priorities established by T&P area.
Provides hands-on support to factories to accelerate improvement of results (coach by doing with factories);
Provides calibration of maturity level check between factories to ensure quality of NCE implementation.
Ensuring alignment of Market strategy with Continuous Improvement Guide for Manufacturing.
Leads internal and external benchmark to further identification losses opportunities
Drives pragmatic application of methodologies and tools focusing on delivering results by applying NCE simplification principles.
Understands and ensures together with F&C community an overall competence of Costing Standards for Manufacturing within the factories.
Requirements
- Degree or Diploma in Engineering, Food Science or Business Management.
- Factory experience (8 years +), preferably acting as Factory Manufacturing Excellence manager or Production/Maintenance Manager
- Strong Practical experience in leading and coaching Continuous Improvement programs (5 years+), preferably experienced in several pillars
- Successfully led and developed cross-functional teams
- Experience in program management
- Experience of working with senior management.
- Proven track record of successful changing an operation to a high performing environment
- It is required that the successful incumbent travel to the various sites on a regular basis
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Opens the official application page on jobdetails.nestle.com
