LATAM Regional Continuous Improvement Manager

About this Position

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Consumer Brands help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop What makes you a good fit. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

What you´ll do

• Drive value / savings to the organization by the strategic deployment of our Continuous Improvement Program, HPS.
• Lead, coach, and develop a regional strategy, ensuring alignment with the plant's master implementation plan.
• Coaches on HPS activities and approaches in all pillars including on-the-floor activities.
• Acts as assessor of integrated activity implementation, calibrates standards with the leadership team.
• Participates in all phase assessments to provide a calibrated and objective viewpoint.
• Captures and disseminates current best practices worthy of reapplication.
• Establishes an integrated, seamless working relationship with plant manager and HPS manager, and the rest of the organization.
• Develops leadership team and especially HPS managers; leads the network of HPS leaders within the region.
• Diagnoses activities and identifies technical know-how and organizational behaviors that are barriers to implementation.
• Tracks the progress cluster sites master plan and gives appropriate advice, detects possible obstacles and escalates if needed.
• Works closely with HPS team to develop and implement standards to the community.
• Supports dev-t of methodologies, systems, tools that support the increase of OEE, reduction of maintenance costs, improvement of SHEQ KPIs.
• Leads workshops involving all plant actors to increase the level of skills and autonomy of the production teams.
• Seeks permanently state of the art solutions from external world which could make a difference for Henkel.
• Audits site implementation of HPS to ensure the highest standard of effectiveness.

What makes you a good fit

Some perks of joining Henkel

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.