Mars
Associate Value Stream Director
Location: CHN-Zhejiang-Jiaxing | China
Location flexibility: 1 office day / week, 2 office days / week, 3 office days / week, 4 office days / week
Job Description
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
- Understand the histories, the practices, assess the strengths and opportunities of the current operation strategies and executions to join strategy definition in site-level and deploy to department goal and plans
- Initiate organization activities in line with business strategy to develop simple, efficient capable organization in Mars way
- Ensure operations to meet supply demand request.
- Work with Safety Committee to ensure safety compliance, promote safety culture and establish safety working environment for all associates
- Produce high quality products with guidance of Mars QMP system and local regulations
- Deliver on time service with cooperation with cross-functional teams
- Embed MSE system and tools to drive continuous productivity improvement.
- Drive PDCA improvement cycle for business results and capability grow.
- Accountable for MCC (from raw material to finished product), manage the supply operation budget, ensure budget implementation in cost efficiency way
- Drive energy saving to realize SiG
- Recruit develop associates in Mars ways to build up healthy talent pipeline.
- Develop and maintain work atmosphere with trust, innovation, teamwork, high morale associate’s ownership and accountability to cultivate associates engagement.
- Operation system/standard build maintain and continuous optimization.
- Work with technical team to ensure equipment reliability.
- Works with factory management team with effective communication to collaborate with each other to achieve factory goals.
Job Specifications/Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required in Science or Engineering
- Formal training or certification in 6-sigma (Black Belt), or TPM, or Lean.
- 8+ years of Supply Chain experience in a food or other FMCG manufacturing facility
- Minimum 3 years in factory as manufacturing manager for a large production/manufacturing operation
- Experience of leading a large production operation and being part of the factory leadership team
- Experience with facilitating and training various teams on continuous improvements.
- Preparing and delivering presentations and recommendations to senior management
- Strong business acumen built through cross functional team a factory assignments
- Developing relationships with peers and front-line associates
- Incumbent needs to understand the mechanical operation, industrial safety, the Manufacturing Resource Planning II (MRPII). Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and HACCP and WQMS.
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Hybrid

Core hours 11–3
Company benefits
Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neonatal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
Learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles
Menopause support
On-site gym
On-site barista
Secure on-site parking
On-site catering
Private booths
On-site wellness room
Collaboration spaces





