Production Manager at Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company

Coca-Cola HBC (Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company) is a bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola HBC is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and has a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange and secondary listing on the Athens Exchange. The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company and operates in more than 200 countries.

Life at Coca-Cola HBC is fast-paced and challenging, with fair rewards and exciting learning opportunities. We promote an inclusive workplace, value diverse views and opinions and always appoint the best person for the job, ensuring equality in our shortlists and appointments. Take up the challenge. Join us!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Production Manager

Location: Nigeria (On-Site)

Job Summary

• The Production Manager is responsible for driving the production plans for the Company's products to the highest quality standards at optimal cost. 
• To drive continuous improvement of processes, productivity and efficiency in the plant and manage people resources to deliver.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures continuous and effective assets management
• Ensures adherence to Food and Beverage Legislation, TCCC Standards, ISO certification, Good Manufacturing Practices, and other internal and external regulatory compliance
• Maintains effective systems to ensure CC Hellenic/TCCC products and package quality
• Ensures all production personnel meet the requirements of Good Housekeeping and Good Manufacturing practices
• Actively participates and ensures the implementation of various infrastructure or process optimization projects in Production
• Production strategy is communicated, understood, and accepted by all unit members
• Implements performance management systems with discipline to ensure that all first-line managers deliver full performance
• Promotes process automation and use of technology
• Implements and provides disciplined monitoring and reporting regarding the implementation of labor legislation, certification standards, CC Hellenic/TCCC CSR Practices and international agreements
• Ensure all Health, Safety & Environment policies and procedures are in place in Production and followed.
• Effectively applies business performance review (BPMS) management routine
• Ensures production of products with high quality, while providing optimal usage of labor and materials with maximized utilization of production lines
• Prepares, presents, and interprets Production KBI's, makes recommendations which result in increased productivity and efficiency; reduces cost and improves customer satisfaction while following production plans
• Analyses cost center variances and investigates ways to improve cost performance
• Builds production teams' capabilities through implementation of training and development programs

Qualifications

• University and/or Advanced degree relevant to Manufacturing (engineering, food & beverage processing related)
• 5-8 years working experience in the field of Production Management, Quality Assurance or Maintenance in Food or Beverage Industry
• Coaching direct reports and mentoring others
• Ability to empower and manage change
• Ability to set standards for management performance
• High integrity
• Knowledge of a bottling organization: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health, and Safety
• Effective Delegation skills
• Full Knowledge of Supply Chain strategy
• Understanding of financial impact of decisions
• Knowledge of manufacturing technologies.
• Ability to build relationships to improve results
• Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things
• Process improvement skills
• Ability to disseminate and enforce safety, health & environment policy
• Ability to implement quality and health, safety & environment improvements
• Experience in people management

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline  14th March, 2025.