Area Operations Manager

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Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $86 billion in net revenue in 2022. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com

The role of the Area Ops Manager is to lead the team to both set and achieve continuous performance improvement goals aligned with the site and market requirements. The Area Operations Manager owns the performance of the area 24 hours a day, every day, and is responsible for developing the team, for implementing operating standards, and for driving performance excellence.

Responsibilities

• Role model high standards, complying with safety standards, all the time.
• Demonstrating high good manufacturing practice (GMP) / housekeeping standards.
• Making decisions in a way to sustain the foundation.
• Maintaining equipment standards.
• Driving performance through the operating framework (eg QCDM, Spark etc) across the balanced scorecard on a daily and weekly basis in the packaging area/mill as appropriate.
• Leading the team - managing and inspiring employee performance and career direction, and driving employee retention and commitment.
• Enabling the organisation to both deliver better results and unleash employees' potential via building capability.
• Building and leading a strong team to perform at peak, driving accountability and developing the team's ability to deliver the results on a 7-day/24-hour basis.
• Bringing external capability, identifying where there is a gap in a result due to a capability gap, and bringing in external capability to fill the gap.
• Demonstrating leadership in challenging situationsRecognizing that true leadership capability is tested in a difficult situation. Taking challenges as an opportunity to demonstrate this opportunity.

Qualifications

• Ideally you will have experience from a FMCG or similar production/manufacturing environment.
• First line leadership experience and demonstrated leadership in the areas of operations, safety, and quality.
• Great communication, influencing, analytical skills and effective stakeholder management.
• Proven experience in continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with structured problem solving tools.
• Flexible, 'can do,' attitude to role and duties.
• Results driven and understands the link between action and results.
• Excellent communicator with individuals at all levels.
• Ability to influence upwards and across in the organisation.
• Good IT and presentation skills.
• Able to prioritise.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.