About the Role:

This role has a main responsibility and accountability of operations management in all Third Parties focusing on Industrial and commercial CoPack and future CoMan in Region India to ensure

i) timely start up of operations

ii) operational excellence following Ferrero’s requirements and

iii) quality and timely production delivery to support business needs.

Main Responsibilities:

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Supervise Third Parties’production to ensure volumes,costs,performance with standards
Assess and implement the right production cycles for each product line to optimize cost & o/p
Drive optimization of the cost & production flow/process plan through adoption of Ferrero’s best practices in 3PO network & identify continuous improvement
Promote production/maintenance expertise exchange & best practice adoption
Establish & enforce procedures to ensure proper data collection & timely report into system
Effective issue resolution & risk mgmt. through proactive and timely escalation involving stakeholders
PRODUCTION SCHEDULING




Short-term:ensure Third-Party delivers production volume as planned and provides timely feedback to stakeholders
Mid to Long-term:strong collaboration with Category/Area Ops/Plant Ops Planning to provide timely 3PO capacity feedback
Risk mitigation plans in discussion with planning team for any disruption and timely communication with 3rd parties for seasonal as well as regular variants
THIRD-PARTY DEVELOPMENT
Collaboration with Central 3PO-I to support scouting,3PO reco and feasibility phases of CoMan projects
Co-lead + manage industrialization phase of new CoMan to ensure 3PO readiness per project timeline
Lead, manage and collaborate with 3PO and relevant stakeholders to conduct assessment,feasibility,implementation of efficiency/continuous improvement projects in existing CoPack
Provides,align,and implement the right “Business Blueprint” for the current Third Party in line with Ferrero’s and Central 3PO guidelines
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📌 Region India Third Party Operations Manager
🏢 Ferrero
📍 India