Site Manager, Fragrance & Beauty Changzhou

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

Site Manager, Fragrance & Beauty Changzhou – Your future position?

As the Site Manager of Fragrance & Beauty Changzhou, you will oversee the management and ongoing improvement of the production (Fragrance, Flavor compliance, oral care & spray drying powder), logistics, quality and site engineering & maintenance, EHS and general service at Changzhou site. Here's a taste of what your daily life could encompass:

• Lead the safety, health, and environmental effort to achieve expected results, ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements, and maintain good government relationships in ChangZhou.
• Ensure customer expectations are exceeded with the highest quality products and services.
• Encourage team members to participate in CI (Continuous Improvement) Events. Participate with site Engineering in the establishment of processes, lay-out and work instructions to maximize safety, quality and throughput of products; ensure productivity improvement year over year through development of stable operations and the elimination of non-value added work
• Provide leadership to drive the plant's GMP and maintenance processes, ensuring the goals are met.
• Provide leadership for manufacturing areas; assures that product quality standards are met on a consistent basis; utilizes quality tools in the manufacturing areas to assure quality standards at each processing station; challenges all supervision and team members for quality improvement suggestions in Improvement Events; assures customer quality expectations are met and exceeded
• Effectively manage teams on the site to continue to improve performance
• Identify and develop talents within the organization to ensure depth of talents and succession plan
• Manage all spending and control at or below budget levels.
• Promote a positive work environment, employee relations
• Ensure staffing and training is maintained to support excellent service to the customer.
• Develop and maintain systems for continuous improvement in all processes, utilizing tools such as 6 Sigma & lean, operations excellence etc. to achieve the site focus KPI

You?

Are you skilled at dreaming up ideas or spotting how to make an impactful change? Can you share a vision and have the ability to execute on it? Are you someone who thrives being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then come join us – and impact your world.

Your professional profile includes:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Chemical Engineering / Chemistry or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years manufacturing experience in related manufacturing environment, with at least 5 years in a management role.
• Successful track record of achieving plant operational goals.
• Business knowledge of production, budget, asset and cost structure management.
• Proven leadership, team building and organization skills, along with the ability to build trust and integrity.
• Stakeholder management
• Good at Government relations with domestic background to deal with authority directly.
• Fluent written and spoken English & Chinese.
• Experience supporting and implementing organization development and human resources initiatives.
• Experience driving and supporting innovative manufacturing and maintenance systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge, understanding, and implementation of process improvement methodologies, including stable operations and / or similar process improvement protocols.
• Customer focus & Drive for results
• Integrity & Honesty.
• Industry & company knowledge will be favourable.
• Nice to have local knowledge of the city.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.