Company: Nestlé

Qualification: BCom degree / diploma (Supply Chain and/or relevant degree)

Experience : Six Sigma minimum green belt

Closing Date :22 October 2024

Position Summary

With a history spanning over 150 years, Nestlé didn’t become the world’s leading food and beverages brand by chance. Perfection is at the heart of what we do, and our people are always looking for the next big idea to cement our status. We are now looking for a Process Optimization Specialist to be based in Bryanston.

In this role you will be responsible Identifying improvement initiatives across O2C E2E (Process; Technology; Shared Services; Data and Organization) to meet current and future Market/Function/ Department objectives. Ensure improvements are clearly documented and teams are trained, coached and competency assessed to deliver sustainable solutions. Create visibility of all improvement initiatives and ensure execution, tracking and reporting on status to stakeholders. Lead key projects within the Customer Supply Chain space throughout ESAR (All Clusters).

A day in the life of a Process Optimization Specialist:

Identifying Improvement Initiatives

• Actively participate and lead in Function/Department DOR/WOR/MOR/QOR reviews to understand performance and challenges.

• Proactive in proposing new continuous improvement initiatives in all ends to end processes.

• Reduction/ prevention of future exceptions by ongoing measurement of root cause of failures.

• Calibrate with stakeholders (Line Managers/HOD) to align on initiative, expected deliverables and timelines.

• Create visibility of resource requirements to execute actions (time required to work on initiatives).

Capability Building to Sustain Improvement

• Ensure all training actions are documented (who, when, what, how) with support from E&T specialist

• Support E&T specialist to track, monitor and feedback on execution of training interventions

• Demonstrate version control is in place to track new/updated/revised SOP's and Standard Routines

• Able to demonstrate a coaching culture exists through planned job observations linked to new ways of working

• Support Line Managers in identifying employees who have the potential to be trained and certified on Six Sigma

• Promote the documenting (learning log) and sharing of good practices across the organization at all levels.

Improvement Initiatives Management

• Increase efficiency by monitoring the progress of the agreed initiatives / Projects for all O2C processes.

• Improve visibility and tracking of ongoing and completed improvement initiatives and controls set in place using GA principles.

• Effective analysis of data to support the identification and execution of improvement initiatives - continuous improvement.

• Run the Zone calls for the Customer Supply Chain in ESAR (co-ordinate and execute).

• Upskill constantly on new solutions and co-ordinate with FRM to ensure best solutions have business case studies for approval.

• Enhancements on the existing applications/solutions to ensure relevance.

• Stakeholder management to the business on new solutions and enhancements and new features.

• Attend PO network meetings and create a network to ensure best practices are followed.

What will make you successful?

• BCom degree/diploma (Supply Chain and/or relevant degree).

• Six Sigma minimum green belt .

• Stakeholder management on all levels with internal and external stakeholders

• High level of PPT (PowerPoint) skills in order to present in all internal and external forums.

• Strong organisational skills.

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. We believe our people are our most important asset, so we'll offer you a dynamic inclusive international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, functions and geographies, working with diverse teams and cultures. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.