Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country Job Number166268 : Goa, Goa, India Who We Are Colgate:Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name Join Colgate:Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values-Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous-we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, lets build a brighter, healthier future for all. Job Summary The Manager Digital, CI and FP and R is responsible for developing and managing continuous improvement initiatives as established by the FP and R guidelines for all systems to improve the plants quality, productivity, and reliability. This position will also have primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining effective KPIs, leading process and packaging improvements in the areas of reliability, waste, product quality, safety, and cost per pound. In addition this position will work closely with the CI Manager to track performance and AML (Absolute Material Losses), and make recommendations for optimizing performance and quality. Main Responsibilities - Develop and manage the continuous improvement systems as established by FP and R guidelines and standard by conducting regular data driven CI reviews, coordinating cross:functional evaluations of CI projects through ROI, Continuous Improvement Plans (CIP) and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and manage CI project timelines to achieve optimization initiatives. - Identify training needs for the plant in the areas of process improvement, technical knowledge, problem solving, SOPs, SPI, PPMs, OPLs, etc. - Incorporate FP and R, GMPs, Visual Workplace, Lean Manufacturing and reliability engineering in CI planning and systems. - Lead the development of process improvements and optimization (throughput, yield, quality, and cost). - Assist in achievement of plant KPI's by working with Area and Team Leaders to translate business needs into daily operations and create technical solutions. - Establish and maintain effective Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measurement and SPI's for the plant, tracking and reporting tools, and establish corrective action for continuous improvement. - Establish, maintain, audit and analyze Shop Floor data structure for accuracy and integrity. - Incorporate FP and R, GMPs, Visual Workplace, Lean Manufacturing and reliability engineering in CI planning and systems. - Track performance and mass balances, and make recommendations for optimizing performance and quality. - Support plant and QA in identifying quality defects and driving resolution internally and with suppliers to improve material quality. - Implement specific standardization, simplification and margin improvement projects and integrate external CI Best Practices. - Responsible for managing capital expenditure budgets and delivering continuous improvement projects that reduce manufacturing variances. - Responsible for coordinating an annual FP and R self assessment and conducting regular check:ins with Standard Owners to ensure the FP and R program is advancing. - Responsible for keeping the site Communication Plan up to date to ensure information is shared at all levels of the site. - Responsible for coordinating the site Formal Line Reviews to ensure plant is progressing on KPI's - Developing people capability road map to build technical and functional capabilities - Performs other duties as assigned - Complies with all policies and standards What you'll need... : Post:graduate degree from well recognisedinstitution : 8:10 years of relevant experience in operations/plant system management : Knowledge of Manufacturing systems