Manufacturing Excellence Manager Full Time

Manager IL6S (Integrated Lean Six Sigma)

While the external role title is Manager- Manufacturing Excellence, the role is internally aligned to Mondelez IL6s (Integrated Lean Six Sigma) framework and plays key role in driving manufacturing excellence, loss elimination, productivity and continuous improvement across the plant network.

Job Description

Purpose of the Role

This position ensures that external manufacturing partners operate in line with internal IL6S standards, performance expectations, and governance requirements. It also serves as a bridge between operations, procurement, finance, quality, and digital teams by converting plant and supplier data into actionable dashboards, presentations, and improvement plans.

Key Responsibilities

IL6S and Process Excellence

• Lead and sustain IL6S deployment across external manufacturing partners through structured improvement programs, audits, capability assessments, and coaching.
• Drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving tools to improve safety, quality, service, and cost performance.
• Facilitate Kaizen workshops, loss analysis, and performance reviews at external manufacturing sites and ensure closure of agreed actions.
• Standardize scorecards and site review mechanisms for operational KPI monitoring across external partners.

Power BI and Dashboard Preparation

• Design, build, and maintain Power BI dashboards for external manufacturing performance, including productivity, quality, service, waste, and cost metrics.
• Extract, clean, validate, and model data from ERP, planning, quality, and shop-floor systems to prepare reliable management dashboards and periodic reports.
• Create automated or semi-automated dashboard views with drill-down capability for plant, procurement, supply chain, and leadership reviews.
• Ensure data governance, consistency of KPI definitions, and accuracy of reporting for all external manufacturing dashboards.

Productivity Monitoring in VOLT

• Serve as the single point contact for External Manufacturing in VOLT and own productivity monitoring governance for all relevant external manufacturing sites.
• Define, track, and review productivity KPIs in VOLT, such as machine utilization, downtime, labor productivity, yield, rework, and waste percentage, aligned with IL6S and business targets.
• Coordinate with plant teams, digital teams, IT teams, and external manufacturers to ensure correct data capture, validation, and timely flow of productivity information into VOLT.
• Use VOLT insights along with Power BI dashboards to identify losses, monitor trends, and trigger corrective and preventive actions across external sites.
• Act as the primary interface between VOLT platform stakeholders and external manufacturing teams for data standardization, issue resolution, and reporting effectiveness.

Cost and Performance Metrics

• Monitor and analyze key manufacturing cost metrics, including conversion cost, waste percentage, yield loss, rework cost, labor efficiency, and productivity losses.
• Translate operational losses and process variation into business impact and support external manufacturing teams in identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Support benchmarking of external manufacturing units on operational efficiency, cost competitiveness, and IL6S maturity.

PowerPoint and Executive Communication

• Prepare high-quality PowerPoint presentations for monthly reviews, business updates, leadership forums, and external manufacturing performance governance.
• Convert operational and dashboard insights into concise executive storytelling with clear messages, action plans, and decision points.
• Support business review meetings with structured presentation material covering trends, root causes, risks, and next steps.

Stakeholder and Governance Management

• Partner with Procurement, Finance, Quality, Planning, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Excellence, and Digital teams to ensure alignment on KPI definitions, reporting, and improvement priorities.
• Build capability within external manufacturing teams on IL6S methods, performance management, and use of digital dashboards for decision-making.
• Maintain governance routines, tracker systems, review cadence, and escalation mechanisms for performance gaps at external sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related discipline; a master’s degree is preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma or IL6S certification such as Green Belt or Black Belt is preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing operations, continuous improvement systems, and external manufacturing management is required.

Experience

• 8 to 12 years of relevant experience in manufacturing, supply chain, continuous improvement, or external manufacturing operations is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in leading process improvement and performance management initiatives in plant or supplier environments is required.
• Hands-on experience with Power BI dashboard development and performance reporting in a manufacturing context is required.

Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouth-watering and well-loved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates, Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages, Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits, and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers hands—and mouths. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has more than 3,300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country. We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 – the fourth time we’ve received this award.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type

Regular

Process excellence

Business Capability