Operations Transformation Expert

Job Purpose

Amcor’s aspiration is to be renowned as the Flexibles industry leader in Operational Excellence.  The Operations Plus program will drive significant and sustainable competitive advantage across the value chain to generate top and bottom line growth.

In addition to delivering gold standard performance, demonstrated through standardising the way AFEMEA operates and having key performance indicators, the AFEMEA Operations Plus team together with the X-BG team will build and champion best-in-class operational capabilities.

This industry leading performance will be underpinned by implementing the O+ production system, systematic collaboration across the Operational Excellence network and a ‘’One Amcor’’ approach across the global Flexibles business and beyond.

The Operations Plus Transformation Expert will play a critical role in the delivery of this step change in Operational Excellence within the manufacturing sites; he/she will challenge accepted thinking, create a culture and way of working focused on Implementation of Best Practices, driving Initiatives, giving ad-hoc support to sites (if and where required) and supports O+ implementation and move the needle fast throughout AFEMEA. He/She will be supporting the systems, standards and Blueprints required. 

He/she will be supporting the shaping of the new online tool as well as the structure of it, for making sure, that it is easy to work with and all information is accessible for the relevant stakeholders. 

Additionally he/she will be getting involved in O+ implementations and learning the methods and tools in a fast and efficient manner, to become a trainer and coach of them.

Job Dimensions & Scope

• AF Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Principal Accountabilities

• Support of the Operations Plus transformation efforts with the sites
• Elevate the Standardisation Level across sites
• Engage, in conjunction with the Performance Boost team, BU CI Leaders, Technical team, the site management teams, their teams and key stakeholders in the transformation effort
• Support AFEMEA towards O+ maturity journey in a sustainable way
• Supports AFEMEA Initiatives e.g. on Waste, Efficiency,...
• Helps improve the Initiatives and the way we drive them in/with sites in conjunction with the O+ Transformation Lead
• Helps design and implement the “new” online tool aligned with O+
• Collects, applies Best Practice
• Communicate progress and celebrate success
• Provide coaching and training around CI & O+ elements
• Mentor and support all co-workers in up-skilling
• Adhoc Support on projects in line with the plan
• Lives and demonstrates Servant leadership

Major Challenges & Complexities

• Support a change agenda which is new, as part of a new team, the new ways of working, and which comes with high aspirations and expectations
• Support moving the needle fast in an environment where ways of working are established and business performance is regarded as successful
• Working aligned with the global Amcor team and apply ways of working and standards in AFEMEA
• Reshape the existing online tool without losing some of its important and well developed content
• Ensure alignment with PB deployment, tools and communication, with a synergic and complementary approach to O+ and not a separate initiative

Qualifications/Requirements

1. Formal Qualifications and Experience

• 2 + years of experience in Operations, Operations Excellence, Manufacturing Systems (e.g. IWS or similar)
• Experience in training people
• Great with IT Tools e.g. PowerBI and Sharepoint
• Degree in a science, technology or engineering subject preferred; advanced degree advantageous.

2.  Specific Skills And Abilities

• Genuine passion for this mission to transform Amcor’s Flexibles manufacturing globally
• Can build and modify PowerBIs
• Can work and build on Sharepoint and Flows
• Analytical and structured
• Can simplify complexity
• Fluent spoken and written English; other languages advantageous e.g. French and German
• Change management
• Ambition for high standards and challenging objectives
• Skilled communicator, facilitator and trainer
• Cross cultural sensitivity
• Change Management
• Self-motivated and -driven
• Can manage uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity
• Customer orientation
• Drive and energy
• Hands-on, action and results oriented
• Pragmatic
• Problem-solver
• Can work under pressure
• Collaborative
• Willingness to travel circa up to 90% within AMCOR, depending on business workload needs

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