Operations Director Italy - Consumer Tissue Private Label Division

Operations Director Italy - Consumer Tissue Private Label Division

The Consumer Tissue Private Label Division enables the delivery of business needs through excellent manufacturing performance tailored to the Private Label customer needs.

About the Role

The Operations Director is accountable for the development of the 3 Sites in Lucca and Collodi and to lead the Supply chain for Italy.

The Operations Director reports to Head of Supply Chain for the division and is part of the Supply Chain Leadership team. He is also a member of the Italian Country Management team.

We welcome a professional with solid manufacturing background, continuous improvement attitude and strong leadership skills, in conjunction with the ability to interact closely with the Commercial organization. The role is responsible for being the Supply Chain face to the customers in a strong collaborative relationship with our Commercial Director and to join forces with all areas of the value chain to ensure the delivery of continued profitable growth. The role is responsible for ensuring that safety and health, quality, environment, cost, delivery (volume, service level) and capability development targets are brought to standards of excellence in the area.

We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk.

What You Will Do

• Acts as a role model for Safety, Quality, lives and embraces Essity Beliefs and Behaviours
• Owns capability building in the sites. Is a role model for performance management, coaching and education
• Builds and develops the talent pipeline
• Inspires, motivates and is able to engage people to achieve outstanding results.
• Develops, drives and owns a market aligned Compelling Business Need (CBN) for the area, in line with the Business Strategy.
• Is a reliable and capable business partner for the local Italian market ensuring product availability and implementing market benefiting initiatives
• Develops and drives strategic initiatives. Builds the capabilities required. Delivers identified changes in the area.
• Drives the continuous improvement in the operations and owns the area results. Sets and follows up the budgets, targets and objectives
• Ensures all the sites in the area are fully compliant to legal and Essity standards
• Builds constructive unions relations in the area

Who You Are

• University degree in Engineering, Industrial Sciences, Operations Management or related field.
• Strong manufacturing background, in paper industry is a plus.
• Minimum 3 years of proven experience as a Site Manager of one or multiple industrial sites.
• Proven track record of improving operational performance at site or multi-site level.
• Proven experience with Continuous Improvement methodologies (TPM, Lean etc).
• Solid experience leading change management in complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and customers
• Strong business understanding with the ability to balance stakeholder needs; operational constraints, and business opportunities.
• Demonstrated capability to collaborate with market teams across the value chain.
• Excellent networking and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire, engage and influence across different disciplines, cultures and positions.
• Ability to build trust in an open environment by involving others and building effective teams and act as a team player.
• Ability to challenge appropriately and foster creativity and innovation and drive continuous improvement.
• Strong sense of ownership, resilience and a results-driven mindset.
• Fluent in Italian and English.

Location: The role can based either in Lucca or Collodi.

What We Can Offer You

At Essity, we believe everyone's learning and professional development is unique and want to empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

This is us:

Within the Consumer Tissue Private Label Division, we believe in the spirit of entrepreneurship, cross functional collaboration, and value chain thinking. We act with agility and have the courage to be bold. CTPLD enjoys the freedom to operate independently as needed, while also benefiting from synergies with the rest of the business. Our people are the cornerstone of our success, driving us to be the winning experts in Private Label for Consumer Tissue in Europe.

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