A mutually rewarding experience.

Work. Realize your ambitions. And realize there’s more to being in business than just making a profit. That’s the Mars philosophy. And the opportunity we offer every one of our Associates. An opportunity to take what you do and make it mean more for you, for those around you and for the planet.  What you get here is challenging, interesting work. You get the tools you need to do a great job and you get to have the best possible people on your side to help you do it. And at the same time as getting to find ways to do business better today than we did it yesterday and driving a great career, you also get to build a more enlightened business and drive sustainability.

Because it’s never just about a single person, a single project or a single brand. It’s about how you can grab everything that’s within your reach here and use it to pursue mutual, long-term gain. It’s about having ideas. And ideals. Being prepared to risk failure because the promise of success means we’ll all be a little better off. It’s that mix of integrity and ambition that makes Mars such a special place to work. And why working here is always about more than just a job.

About Mars, Incorporated 

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN’S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

 

Key Responsibilities/职位描述

1.    Optimizes the Supply Chain

- Maintain inputs used for sourcing decision making. Support the Plant Manager co-create the site master plan.

- Support activities prioritized by the regional TLT to drive improvements in service levels and cost.

- Administrator CAB Web for all small minor project submissions at the site.

2.    Analyses and improves Performance

- Maintain the main supply KPIs for the site to direct business improvement priorities (KPI’s), SIG, Q&FS, TRS, FATR, COGS.

- Lead the site in review of global benchmarking data to improve performance. Share global performance initiatives and information across the regional supply community.

- Responsible for the use of Plant Toolkits.

- Compiles the site data for the regional MOS deck each period.

- Consolidates all site input for global supply benchmarking reports.

- Facilitates regional and global reviews for Plant Managers.

- Supports the Quickscan and other global plant tool deployment onsite. 

- Administer the local approval process for

o     CAB and Capital Projects

o     Leased Warehouses

o     New Offices and office changes

o     Land and Buildings Acquisition and Disposal

o     Co-manufacturing

3.    Co-Pilots site leadership team and Plant Director on site MSE program implementation towards site CBN

-      Facilitate FD and leadership team to define site compelling business needs

-      Develop site MSE program implementation plan to support CBN delivery

-      Support FD and site MSE leadership team MSE knowledge ramp up

-      Facilitate site MSE initiation and roll out

 

4.    Comprehensively understand site loss and cost/loss linkage, co-pilots with FD, IE, S&F to achieve business cost benefit by driving loss elimination through MSE

-      Play as the expert of cost loss model to facilitate site loss analysis, to define loss elimination strategy

-      Codify site loss elimination strategy with MSE plan

-      Coach pillar loss elimination activity and track the status

-      Work with S&F and IE to lead site OP/OGSM activities

 

5.    Define and build critical capability for the sites in different layers with the 6-18 months outlook

-      Define key capability needs based on site loss elimination needs and business requirement

-      Play as the major coach of pillar capability building

-      Build different layers capability through daily problem-solving coach, small group activities (AM/PM) assessment

 

6.    Governance of site MSE progress based on site MSE master plan

-      Develop site MSE master plan and support MSE pillars master plan development accordingly

-      Drive rigorous PDCA cycle of pillar management

-      Work closely with MSE community to ensure factory is receiving effective guidance/roaching and leads on best practice systems/tools for reapplication

-      Ensure effective gives & gets between pillars and MSE committee to engage and support MSE progress

 

7.    Coach and engage site MSE team (leadership team, VSM MSE leaders, pillar leaders, etc.) on full involvement of MSE program

-      Develop site leadership team skill matrix and track the status (facilitate gap closure if any)

-      Review status of VSM MSE leader’s capability status and coach on capability build up through his/her VSM MSE program hands-on involvement

-      Build the MSE culture cross organization

 

8.    Lead the continuous improvement projects, masterplans, activities in the site level. And Coach the VSM CI team.

-      Work with PPTS, QA, R&D, CBU to setup or participate the site NPD plan. Ensure the gate keeper as IE together from ATG POV

-      Study and build site process flexibility with future back view, and offer ideas to marketing, R&D etc…

-      Support site IE to setup the long term VLiC roadmap and ensure the implementation in each VSM level

-      Own the VSM level CI manager capability and knowledge transfer

 

Qualifications/任职条件

1.    Education and Professional Qualifications

•     University Degree in Science or  Engineering

•     Trained or certified on Continuous Improvement or TPM, or related field

•     Ideally 2-3 years professional experience in Production or Lean area.

2.     Knowledge / Experience

•     Business Administration

•     Lean/Continuous Improvement

•     Technical skills

•     Systems knowledge: MS Office (especially excellent Excel knowledge)

•     Project Management

•     Fluent in written and spoken English

 

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.