Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group

Job Description:

Castrol is a global leader in lubricants. In India, Castrol is a publicly listed company, leading in the Automotive, Industrial, and Marine lubricant sectors. With iconic brands, relentless innovation, strong customer relationships, and a team of highly motivated employees, we have maintained our market leadership in India for over a century. Our robust manufacturing and distribution network in India helps us reach consumers through more than 135,000 outlets.

At Castrol, success knows no bounds. We offer a fast-paced learning environment where you can develop your career, whether in specialized functions or on a general management track. Castrol India has a proud legacy of nurturing top talent for leadership roles, both locally and globally.

We are currently looking for Global Manufacturing Excellence Manager - for Pune location and details mentioned below:

About the role

The MAX Manager (Global Manufacturing Excellence Manager) provides global manufacturing expertise to optimize the design and operations efficiency of the Global Supply Chain plant network. The incumbent develops manufacturing excellence program (MAX) standards, processes, and capability to drive standardization, guideline sharing/adoption and continuous improvement based on loss analysis methodology and culture. The job holder acts as the primarily global contact for all manufacturing related questions and an interface between plants and leadership and can provide guidance and remote & on the floor coaching for plants teams. Establishes a coaching relationship to MAX/CI-roles in plants and regions. Supports global engineering with standards for Early Equipment Management (EEM) pillar as a part of MAX program.

What you will deliver:

• Leading the operating standards of the Castrol plants with focus on the 9 advantaged plants to deliver externally benchmarked competitiveness and multi-year masterplan for improvement translated into the main KPIs CPL, OCC, OEE, Yield, Energy intensity and MAX assessment score 6 pillars of success. You will lead the important metric manual and provide revisions or improvements to benchmark definitions as needed to drive better performance with effective governance.

• You will deliver a KPI to measure the progress of masterplan and orchestrate the governance process and yearly master plan refresh.

• You will create a comprehensive program of manufacturing excellence including giving guidance on launching foundations (Organization, Training, Leadership) and pillars (AM/PM/FI/HSSE/Quality/EEM/E2ESC/Admin) necessary for driving key improvement across KPIs. You will create also checklist for assessment across sites for maturity and will be doing site visits and audits to quality entry to next phase.

• The incumbent is responsible for accomplishing of the external manufacturing benchmarking study PIMS and related communication and action plans. Organize and complete quarterly performance reviews with all PUs

• Establish a global reporting system, performance management system and provide visibility for senior leadership and the Manufacturing community with clear guidelines and templates.

• Based on a guideline sharing system establish a systematic reapplication/adoption and sharing culture. Work with Engineering to improve Equipment and process standardization.

• Strengthen the loss mentality within the manufacturing community and provides support to grow MAX/CI capabilities in plants.

Experience and Qualifications

• Manage by influence, lack direct control for project execution.

• Supporting proper application of MAX action planning and masterplans.

• At least 8 years broad manufacturing experience and consistent track record of working in a leading function in an CI/Lean environment. Ability to create consensus of MAX program from a diverse range of customers through demonstrating value to the others with effective storytelling ability.

Preferable:

Launching a CI program in a structured framework at a plant and driving it to atleast phase 2 (reaching AM step 4, PM step 3) would be a bonus. Additionally leading any cluster/multi-site CI program will be an additional bonus

Working experience outside of India preferably in at least Asia or Europe/USA

Attributes:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence, manage conflict, and maximise team performance.

• Strong networking skills with the ability to build and maintain a dispersed network of professionals - sharing standard process between plants and regions.

• Strong decision making skills with an inclusive style – makes effective decisions, displays good judgement, seeks input from others, and considers the impacts of the decision.

• Successful Track Record of managing a Lean/CI/ManEx program ideally in a FMCG type of environment

• The ability to work across numerous cultures.

You will work with

Reports to the Global Manufacturing and Engineering Manager. Key customers include Performance Unit Supply Chain Director & Manufacturing Managers, Plant Managers and Local CI Managers the assets. Effective leadership and influencing skills to deliver the accountabilities in this role while operating through a zone of influence through a network. Uses a wide range & depth of technical or specialized knowledge and provides technical leadership & expert advice to others. Provides technical coaching / professional guidance and assists in the development of others.

Why join bp

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Commercial Acumen, Digital Fluency, Logistics Management, Negotiating, Negotiation planning and preparation, Project Management, Risk Management, Supplier Performance Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Supply chain management, Sustainability awareness and action, Value creation and management

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.