Job Description
Global Head of Digital Manufacturing
About the Position:
We have an excellent opportunity available for an experienced Digital Manufacturing Leader to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The function lies within Global Transformation team in the Global Center of Excellence in Amsterdam - The Netherlands. You'll be working in an impactful team, alongside peers always trying to reach the next level. Get ready for a lot of exposure to internal senior stakeholders. You're constantly looking for improvement activities within Global Operations to help develop, promote, and implement different supply chain strategies to achieve effective business processes.
In brief, you will be responsible for:
• How to Deploy Manufacturing Process Management for Digital Manufacturing • Transform digital strategies and adopting Industry 4.0.
• Define & govern our Global Digital Manufacturing strategy, tied to shop floor process maturity.
• Optimize and modernize IT practices and portfolios. Use this research to learn the best practices, case studies and roadmaps to leverage and scale the technology portfolio.
• Organize the Data Lake and provide the capabilities to use the outputs.
• Approaches to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) to our manufacturing organization with relatable use cases to stimulate thinking of ideas where AI can influence efficiency and reduce waste.
• Partner with different regions on the adoption of our Global roadmap, implementation of solutions and continuous governance / value-tracking.
Please kindly note that you need to have an EU Working Permit (Orientation Year Visa not included) in order to proceed for this position.
Qualifications
• Master's degree or equivalent experience in engineering.
• MBA.
• Experience coordinating a Digital Manufacturing Road Map.
• Advanced level in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Advanced level in PLCs knowledge.
• Programming skills (JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP).
• Proficient in using Tableau or Power BI.
• Configuration Management (CM) Software Experience.
• Experience to support executives in making complex decisions: ability to simplify, prioritize, structure and articulate the many decision criteria to enable the decision for the Company.
• Strong analytical skills to model manufacturing and logistics networks and operations. Ability to define the most effective way to model, understand which assumptions matter.
• Project management skills: knowledge and experience with best practices in project management, ability to interact with operations and commercial functions to understand priorities, get assumptions and buy-in.
Professional Attributes
• Resilience -You're able to bounce back after a disappointment or set back, big or small. And always continue to move onward & upward.
• Ability to Simplify -We like to keep it simple. And to execute fast. Your ability to simplify will be highly appreciated, when you provide simple solutions dealing with complex challenges.
• Commercial Sense - You don't only want to win; you hate to lose. You're always seeking for opportunities to expand your business and create more savings, while over delivering your targets.
• Result driven - You don't only focus on your own results, but always do what's best for the company.
• Empathy - listening to the customer • You're known for your empathy. You listen more and talk less, and therefore truly understand your customer. With that mindset you create commercial chances to optimize the customer experience.
What we offer you:
- An ambitious employer; we only want the best for you.
- A fast career track like only few other companies can match.
- A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market); at KraftHeinz we strongly believe and live by ownership and meritocracy.
- A hybrid working model; because we believe the future of work is based on a building modern, adaptable, and agile workplace culture. 3 days from our office in Amsterdam and 2 days from home with additional 20 days per year to work from anywhere you want!
- Additional benefits such as Commuting Allowance, Hybrid Work Allowance & Reimbursements, Bicycle & Gym Discount Plan, Employee Assistance Program and Supplemental Health Insurance.
- A wide range of discounts with KraftHeinz's partnerships on fashion, electronics, travels and many more!
- Last and not least; there are always room for new insights: If you have an idea, please let us know, and we can set it in action!
Location(s)
Amsterdam
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.
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What We Do
At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an enterprise where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams are in relentless pursuit to solve tangible problems for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve the problem on hand. In-turn, you can look forward to high-impact challenges, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial small teams, and a unique opportunity to create and build something bold, awesome, and impactful – all while honoring our 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic and emerging brands!
Why Work With Us
Our ambition is to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. You’ll invent the next wave of augmented intelligence products where software & humans work side-by-side to rethink every aspect of our company. You’ll make an imprint & leave your legacy on every part of our business.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We also believe providing a more flexible and agile model is essential in today’s workplace. A majority of our office-based employees will be able to work remotely for up to two days each week.
