Continues Improvement Manager

**Overview**

**PepsiCo’s strength is its people. Winning together is all about respect for one another’s unusual traits, backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Our teams reflect the diversity of our customers and our communities, breaking down barriers and winning awards.**

**Around the world, we're working hard to give people the tastes they crave and the nutrition they need. We dream globally and act locally, constantly innovating to sustain our planet, our people, our communities and our business practices. As a global food and beverage company with brands that stand for quality and are respected household names such as Quaker Oats, Tropicana, Gatorade, Lay’s and Pepsi-Cola, we are committed to Performance with Purpose; pushing to be best and fully committed to the people we share the planet with.**

**Are you ready to explore PepsiCo and be part of this iconic multinational? Seize the day for real life on the job Learning? Enjoy some flexibility that will ensure you are balancing your personal and professional life?**

**Our employees are at the heart of PepsiCo. Through the Company's dedication to Talent Sustainability, we continue to support the development of employees. A possibility, our employment brand, reinforces our dedication to our people; enabling them to reach new heights in their careers and becoming truly world-class talents. PepsiCo is universally recognized as one of the best companies in the world for leadership development.**

**Support Productivity, SC and LSS growth agenda by leading deep dive initiatives through data analytics, process reengineering to create improvement projects at ME BU. Automate, simplify and standardize scorecards and dashboards (Excel & Power BI). Investigate, coordinate, and implement new best practices and initiatives for managing the productivity &LSS program. Create an E2E productivity and LSS campaigns to uplift the culture and service levels across BU.**

**Responsibilities**
- Provide ME BU Productivity insights and reports across the business by leading data analytics driven projects.
- Lead/participate in the departmental and corporate projects related to the area of accountability to ensure the proper implementation of the project as per the project plan.
- Issue the Monthly Operations Performance Review reports through gathering the relevant Operations data from the system in order to present the Operations Excellence performance.
- Participate in setting the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between the Operations Divisions and other stakeholders through the collaboration with stakeholders in order to maintain compliance.
- Analyze trends and insights in order to improve performance in cost, quality, delivery and capability.
- Develop and co-ordinate capability building agenda for LSS.
- Lead the GLF productivity governance through Power steering.
- Support the LSS and Productivity events through campaign ideation, LSS Training, culture transformation and Productivity council.
- Lead LSS projects to increase productivity levels to reach annual Target.

**Qualifications**
- Models PepsiCo values
- Solid understanding and knowledge of Productivity, reporting and Power steering systems.
- Strong analytical skills with Excel & Databases
- Disruptive thinking skills (Innovate and identify new trends)
- Technical degree in Engineering (Process, Mechanical, Electrical preferred).
- Technical knowledge of field operations and KPIs levers
- Experience of front-line operations (2-3 years minimum), frontline management experience preferred.
- Good verbal and written communication skills; fluent English is a must.
- Has demonstrated ability to influence up, down and laterally within the organization.
- Results oriented.
- Is able to travel as required (~ 5%).