Transformation Manager - Supply Chain
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Great things are happening in the Europe and Australia (EUAU) region. Each day, our 2,500 plus colleagues bring their passion to our offices, manufacturing sites, R&D center, and commercial/distributor markets across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We are energized by over 150 years of bringing people together with the food they love. With beloved brands Old El Paso, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Fibre One, Latina Fresh and more, we are on a mission to become the undisputed growth leader in food for EUAU. In a world that's ever-changing, we look to stay ahead and seek people who share our love of food and are hungry to shape the future.
What your role is
The Transformation Manager is the lead for the HMM Transform office and will play a vital technical role within the EUAU Marketing structure to connect differentially with the International and NAR/NAF/Pet teams across the global organisation. This role will be responsible for securing & accelerating the 3OP HMM pipeline and beyond through the exploration of cross-Brand & cross-functional opportunity areas to ensure the health of the long-term HMM pipeline. The individual must demonstrate excellence in knowledge of cross-functional processes (Manufacturing, Sourcing, Logistics, ITQ, Marketing), a learning mind-set to explore internal & external innovation, and collaboration with the business teams to build a funnel of large-scale and potentially disruptive ideas within the HMM arena. They will need to provide high-level assessments of potential business impact and resource requirements, and support & influence prioritization decisions made at Senior Leadership level to progress through to feasibility.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead activities to increase the portfolio of transform-scale initiatives to ensure the sufficiency of the HMM pipeline in FY+2 and beyond. Collaborate cross-functionally and across all EUAU Brands (including Haagen Dazs) to identify potential areas of opportunity for technical or technically-enabled projects. This should include leveraging external resources such as Consultants & suppliers to investigate future trends and innovation in raw materials, packaging and technical equipment. It will also involve direct connects with Global colleagues to share learnings and discuss cross-segment opportunities.
- Play a differential connector style role across the global organisation by partnering across the technical communities both in International and NAR/PET/NAF. Use this insight to take responsibility for driving the Technical Community collaboration (SC, Sourcing & ITQ) with a focus on Transformational HMM - including organising the bi-annual F2F events.
- Build on existing connects to establish a forum to discuss and unlock cross brand/function opportunity areas including Senior Leadership level stage-gate approval to progress and decision-making for allocation of Project Manager.
- Complete high-level assessments of identified opportunity areas including potential size of prize, implementation timings, and resource requirements. Create LtW Charters & bring prioritisation, project approval & resource requests to stakeholders for decisions on progress to next stage.
- Establish & lead HMM 'Active Management': a project-based platform to review the largest & most complex key strategic HMM projects being managed by the HMM Project Manager.
What you will bring to the team
Minimum Qualifications/Experience
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in Project Management (ideally within Supply Chain or ITQ)
- Broad business understanding and broad perspective to "connect the dots", utilize strategic thinking and demonstrate curiosity
- Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to Senior Leadership level
- Exceptional skill in navigating an organisation and building relationships across and up levels whilst being comfortable with managing conflict.
- Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making
- Confident in challenging the norm and able to identify opportunities for innovative ways of working
- Strong organizational and people development skills
- Able to lead and direct across functional teams
- Able to work across organizational/functional boundaries
- Self-managing, results oriented and capable of leading multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Able to enter uncertain situations, assess opportunities, identify stakeholders, and bring direction to a project
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree ideally in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, Technical or Supply Chain Management
- High level Project Management qualification
What you get from us
- A Certified Great Place to Work, Certified Best UK Workplace and Best Workplace for Wellbeing,Development & Women
- Flexible and employee-focused work culture
- Equal Employment opportunities
- Competitive package with benefits
At General Mills, we are committed to recruiting ,retaining, developing, and advancing an inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of the consumers and communities we serve globally. Come and be part of our team's journey. Hungry to Shape the Future.