Job description

The Strategy & Digital Manager is the primary architect of the plant’s future-state operating model. This dual-purpose leadership role is responsible for orchestrating the site’s five-year strategic roadmap—aligning capacity, sourcing, and "Funding the Growth" initiatives with long-term business objectives—while simultaneously spearheading the plant’s Industry 4.0 transformation.

As the site’s central strategist and digital gatekeeper, you will bridge the gap between long-term operational planning and a digitally-enabled shop floor. By leveraging operational & advanced analytics, digital tools, and emerging technologies, you will drive a data-centric culture that optimizes production, minimizes waste, and builds future-ready technical capabilities across the entire workforce.

Your Day to Day and The Future

Plant Strategy & Operational Planning

• Lead the five-year plant strategy process, ensuring a robust roadmap is in place to meet organizational growth and performance targets.

  
  

• Lead and coordinate short and long term capacity planning and road maps aligned with strategic sourcing and cost savings initiatives.

  
  

• Maintain factory capacity utilization models following the release of monthly forecasts.

  
  

• Partner with Division Network Operations to drive the timely and accurate collection of plant volume data for Budget and Latest Estimate (LE) reviews

  
  

• Develop and drive strategies for product and material portfolio simplification to improve plant performance and resilience.

  
  

• Lead and Coordinate the Funding The Growth Program to achieve savings targets (Coordinate Brainstorming Activities, Projects, go / no go decisions, benchmarking)

  
  

Digital Transformation

• Develop and execute the plant-specific digital roadmap, aligning global/divisional/Plant initiatives to transition the plant from traditional to digital operations aligning with the key pillars of Industry 4.0.

  
  

• Act as the central gatekeeper for all plant-level digital requests and technology needs.

  
  

• Partner with plant functional leads to evaluate digital opportunities based on ROI, operational pain points, and technical feasibility.

  
  

• Drive the cultural shift toward digital ways of working through structured training, communication, and building a network of digital champions.

  
  

• Enforce an "Adopt-First" mindset, ensuring global or division tools are utilized before any local "self-service" development begins.

  
  

• Drive the utilization of both operational advanced analytics at all levels in the site to optimize production, minimize waste, and improve process efficiencies.

  
  

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or analytical discipline.

  
  

• 8+ years of manufacturing, production, or operations experience.

  
  

• Experience using analytical skills and working knowledge of databases and spreadsheets.

  
  

• Experience in Manufacturing Operations, Logistics, Planning, Quality, Safety, or Finance.

  
  

Even better if you have:

• Proven supply chain domain knowledge (process, systems, and data) with solid operational experience in demand or supply; end-to-end experience strongly preferred.

  
  

• End-to-end supply chain experience covering planning, logistics, manufacturing, and/or customer service.

  
  

• Experience with ML models and/or cloud architecture.

  
  

• Formal certifications (e.g., PMP, CSM or equivalent Agile certifications).

  
  

• Experience working in a global matrixed organization and/or with global functional roadmaps.

  
  

• Demonstrated experience driving large-scale change management and digital adoption with diverse stakeholders.

  
  

• Experience with SQL/Python for data manipulation and analytics.

  
  

• Experience integrating GenAI/LLM into business processes.

  
  

• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum and project or product lifecycle management

  
  

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex data to all levels of the organization.