Contract Manufacturing Manager, EMEA (Temporary position) Sustainable Operations/Supply Chain ·[...]
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WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? Would you like to work for a global company with innovative and tasty products that are good for your health and for the planet!? Does it sound interesting to strategically develop our relations with our contract manufacturers but at the same time ensure operational excellence every day ensuring we supply our products into our markets? Do you want to create long-term value for Oatly by strengthening the collaboration across regions and towards key suppliers? If so, we are happy to tell you that we are looking for a Contract Manufacturing Manager! WHAT YOU WILL DO Oatly uses Contract Manufacturers in addition to in-house production, for meeting demand in product formats and capacity. As Contract Manufacturing Manager your mission is to secure competitiveness by continuously improving supplier’s performance, cost management, complexity reduction and supply market leverage and to create long-term value for Oatly by strengthen the collaboration across regions and towards key suppliers to ensure further growth by capturing innovation and supplier’s capabilities. In addition to this, you will lead and coordinate the work on Cost Competitiveness, Sustainability Excellence and support the Quality Plans with your respective Contract Manufacturers. Collaboration is of the essence in this role, and you will work closely with many other parts of the company, for example, quality, supply chain, procurement, finance & innovation as well as external partners. You will be responsible for budget follow-up, preparation and long-term planning as well as the executing of strategic plans for Operations, securing annual plans and targets are met. More fun things you will do:
- Relationship Management and Supplier Development
- Manage agreements, from their creation through to their execution
- Identify and lead improvement projects
- Lead Cost Competitiveness Planning as well as Sustainability Improvement Plans
- Coordinate activities and projects between Oatly and Contract Manufacturers
- Support and ensure that day-to-day issues are being solved or escalated
- Coordinate and support control/audit execution of procedures
- Social competence and ability to establish sound relationships with others
- Strong Business Acumen
- Strategic mindset with a hands-on approach
- Relevant studies within Business, Production or Logistics
- Strong in communication with high integrity
- Systematic, analytical, accurate and structured with sustainable values
- Improvement-driven and focused on delivering on goals
- Both externally and internally focused with the ability to navigate the bigger picture
- Agile and adaptable
- A couple of years of work experience within Operations; Supply Chain, Production, Contract Manufacturing or project management within Food/liquid food industry in an international business environment
- Higher education, preferably within business economics, project management, engineering or comparable working experience
- IT competence (MS Office, ERP, BI-system)
- Fluent in English
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