Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.
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Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.
Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.
PLANT MANAGER
BG Health & Pharma solutions
Created: May 2025
Reporting function
OPERATIONS
Plant Manager - Qualicaps Brazil
Main responsibilities
* Implement the Quality, HSE & financial policies from the Corporate functions by ensuring good coordination with all functions present in plant.
* Ensure compliance with regulations in terms of social law, labor law, health, safety, hygiene, environment, food safety and pharmaceutical requirements
* Manage operational activities to satisfy plant's customers:
Carry out production plans while respecting quality, deadlines and quantities
* Implement manufacturing transformation in all domains allowing to improve mid term plant's competitiveness.
* Ensure consolidation, prioritization of plant's priorities and activities on the short and mid term horizon for all functions in the plant (including finance, HR, Quality and procurement)
* Ensure directly or by delegation the representation of the Company vis-à-vis the social partners and the local administrations.
Main activities
* Carry out the production plan of the operating unit or site by managing and optimizing the resources made available
* Analyse, propose and implement the necessary changes to optimize operating costs, quality, safety and environmental protection
* Manage crisis situations and conduct emergency operations when necessary
* Manage the Plant budget and adapt OPEX and CAPEX to maintain/improve plant competitiveness.
* Propose investments and structural and organizational changes likely to improve the performance of the site or the Business Unit and carry out the investment programs decided by the Board of Directors
* Know, respect and ensure compliance with the rules on safety, quality, food safety, hygiene, the environment and human resources management and be the guarantor of them.
* Manage and develop the teams in the scope of the plant.
* Track and communicate site or business unit KPIs. Translating Group objectives into local development indicators, actions and plans
* Escalate when conflict of priorities between functions within the plant.
COMPETENCES
Key Skills & capabilities
* Have sense of responsibility and autonomy necessary to take on the missions of a "business leader" within his or her perimeter
* Demonstrate leadership and strong communication and negotiation skills to lead high-stakes relationships (customers, suppliers, employees, etc.)
* Ability to influence and evolve in matricial organization
* Have in-depth technical knowledge of the production facilities and processes in your sector
* Have a strong technical background in manufacturing in GMP environment of highly regulated industry
* Master continuous improvement tools (Diagrams, dashboards, etc.)
* Master the tools, methods and processes of reliability (criticality, FMEA, etc.)
Transversal skills and abilities
* Leadership and Ability to Influence
* Complex team management (manages managers)
* Ability to mobilize, energize and develop a team
* Activity management and priority setting
* Project Management
* Problem solving
* Results-oriented
* Budget Management
* Ability to identify performance levers
* Rigor and organizational skills
* Ability to communicate with a variety of interlocutors and create a relationship of trust
* Ability to work in a cross-functional mode
* Respect and ability to enforce safety, hygiene and quality instructions
* Reporting - monitoring of dashboards – KPIs
Language skills
English Level C1
SPECIFICS / OBLIGATIONS OF THE JOB
Travel
5 % of Full time max
Other elements
Limited home office
If you identify yourself in this position, please apply by uploading your resume and let's start the journey together
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