Operational Excellence Manager - Edmonton - #1735154

About

Are you looking for new challenges within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect? Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?

Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Operational Excellence Manager - Edmonton

Contract - Permanent

Structured career development + Annual performance related pay bonus and pay reviews + Share scheme + Health Care Cover + Competitive pension contributions + Range of flexible benefits and Corporate discounts including childcare vouchers, holiday buy/sell scheme + Free parking + Free hot and cold drinks and subsidised canteen + Excellent parental benefits + Flexible working

What You Become Part Of

The GB Operational Excellence team operate at a national level providing support for performance improvement across all functions of the Customer Service & Supply Chain function, in line with the CSSC One Supply Chain Strategy.

In support of our commitment to People Development, OE acts as a development function providing opportunities for professional and personal development to strengthen the CSSC talent pipeline.

The team leads the implementation of the CCEP approach to Operational Excellence to guide us on our path to achieving the Gold level of the central OE assessment.

The Operational Excellence Team Is Structured Into Three Areas With Dedicated Resources Working With Functional Leads At BU And Site Level

• Supply Chain Development: steering of the GB-wide Portfolio groups and deployment of the Aligned Portfolio Improvement plans, cross-functional projects and OE support for non-operational CSSC functions
• Industrial Performance: manufacturing, distribution, maintenance and QESH across all portfolio groups
• Operational Capability: skills development for operational teams, from frontline to management
  
  

This position will operate at a site level in our Edmonton Manufacturing site. Edmonton Operations has 7 manufacturing lines. And is sole supply of a number of CCEP’s portfolio. With over 300 employees across Manufacturing, QESH and Engineering, experience here can lead to excellent career opportunities both in Edmonton and further afield across other GB sites and Pan-European locations.

What To Expect

• Execute and drive the Operational Excellence roadmap for the site, applying the CCEP OE framework based on the Bronze, Silver, Gold levels
• Establish and develop OE leadership, capability and performance management; Focused Improvement, Projects, Frontline CI activities (covering systematic root cause and complex problem solving) and measuring real financial results arising from operational/process improvement projects
• Work with relevant functional leads and line managers to carry out gap analysis against the CCEP OE assessments: prepare and complete action plans for Autonomous Maintenance, targeted improvements, productivity, QESH and customer-service standards; complete audits and identify trends
• Lead the Technical Trainer team, providing advice on technical learning, and support the team to plan, conduct and follow up training and capability matrix for the site
  
  

Skills & Essentials

• Previous experience of implementing performance improvement programs using industry-recognised approaches (TPM, CI, Lean, Six Sigma etc.)
• Leadership ability in a continuous flow manufacturing or industrial environment
• Degree in Industrial Engineering or equivalent experience
• Previous experience of performance improvement methods
  
  

Ideal Candidate Will Have

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in a Team and Network
• Problem Solving skills
• Leadership skills
  
  

The closing date for applications is 27/05/25. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.

We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.

Nice-to-have skills

• Six Sigma
• London, England
  
  

Work experience

• General Project Management
  
  

Languages

• English