Global Head of Operation Sense Colour

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Join us as our next  Global Head of Operation Sense Colour . Reporting to our Head of Global Operations T&W, you will lead the global manufacturing team, setting goals and assigning resources to accomplish the our goals. You will make sure our site operates with safety, quality, service, regulatory compliance, and cost management through talent development, engagement and continuous improvement.

US Locations: Cincinnati,OH, Port Washington, WI.

UK Location:  Overseal, UK.

In this exciting role you will work with:

- Safety: Ensure the highest safety standards, fostering safety culture and systems, and work toward zero recordables in all sites. Support the safety management program.
- Quality: Ensure quality standards meet customer and Givaudan requirements.
- Service: Ensure high service levels, following customer lead time and documentation expectations.
- Staffing: Ensure staffing is sufficient to produce the forecasted volume. Cross train and develop staff for increased agility. Benchmark and improve labor productivity.
- Benchmarking and Best Practice Implementation: Achieve world-class performance through process improvement, cost control, operational efficiencies and adherence to top-notch EH&S standards.
- Strong Culture: Work with plant managers, Ops, and SCBU teams to implement Engagement Survey learnings and other tools, ensuring a strong, positive SCBU culture globally.
- Technology Transfers: Ensure plants utilize latest technology. Communicate process improvements to all plants; facilitate implementation as appropriate. Conduct annual production leadership meetings.
- Process Improvement and New Product Development: Work with R&D and plants to ensure new product implementation utilising optimum processes for safety, quality, and cost management.
- Expense Control: Approve Site Manufacturing Budgets. Monthly review performance on manufacturing costs and plant administrative expenses; work with plants to maintain spending at/under budget.
- Inventory Control: Approve Site Inventory Budgets, phased by month. Monthly review performance on inventory and write-off.
- Capital Projects : Evaluate new process equipment proposals, R.O.I. or payback analysis. Provide oversight leadership for in‑house or outside engineering on projects.

- Raw Materials: Work with Supply Chain to share cost data among plants, build better Supplier relationships, and assist in negotiating better pricing and performance metrics.
- Community Relations: Ensure all plants operate as good neighbors, adhering to environmental and regulatory laws. Maintain contacts necessary to facilitate communication.
- Continous Improvement: Model use of Quality Tools for problem resolution and project implementation to ensure engagement and sustainable solutions.
- Promote Customer Excellence; keep Customer needs and feedback top of mind in operational decisions.
- Support global Sustainability initiatives.
- Member of the Global Operations as well as of the SCBU Leadership Team, with responsibility for developing and supporting company vision and strategy. Participate in regional strategy meetings as required to ensure execution of specific initiatives.
- Uphold Givaudan's DNA, Policies and Standards.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
- 10+ years operational oversight of several manufacturing sites
- Knowledge of food/beverage coloring industry.
- Experience working with and develop people – coaching mentality
- Open to feedback with good self awareness and willingness to learn and grow
- Leadership experience
- Strategic planning execution expertise
- Quality Improvement Process

What We Can Offer You:

- 401K Plan
- Healthcare Plan:

Medical
- Dental
- Vision

- Vacation days

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Givaudan takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, qualifications/certifications and education, and internal equity.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Diversity of perspectives fuels innovation and fosters deeper connections with our employees, customers, and partners. At Givaudan, we are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive environment where every individual’s voice is valued and has the power to shape our world. Join us in making a difference together.