Search overview
The company
- One of the world’s largest beverage companies with £22 billion+ revenue, and over 200 brands.
- Truly global brand. With its products sold in over 180 countries, it is the largest producer of Scotch whiskey.
- Globally trusted producer of high-quality and great-tasting spirits and beers
- Comprised of 27,000+ employees and high performers worldwide
The search
Global Manufacturing Excellence Director search, with the seniority and strategic vision to challenge the categories and markets to improve their performance. This is a senior operational role responsible for global OpEx initiatives, a strong appreciation for how the manufacturing function is interlinked with the wider supply chain and commercial functions of the business, (P&L mindset).
S-CAP Tools deployed
- Cultural Assessment
- Operational Maturity Assessment
Approach
Melium has a 20+ year pedigree in Operational Excellence building Greenfield deployments, and getting programs from "good" – "great". We always look at the 5 essential components
- Culture change
- Process improvement
- Technology enablement
- Organisational capability building
- Stakeholder engagement
Melium Consulting invests heavily to ascertain the foundations for success, with a clear understanding of the AS-IS and TO-BE states. From our initial consultation it was clear we needed to probe the following areas;
- The current manufacturing excellence deployment maturity and CI Culture
- Historic leadership style, action, and results
- Corporate values, organizational vision, and company culture
- Growth, transformation, and investment agendas
Mutually agreed Search approach
- Critical success factors and desired future state outcomes
- Competency matrix definition (Technical and Behavioural)
- Designed bespoke evaluation assessment from S-CAP inputs
- Value proposition creation to attract passive candidates.
- Project plan the process, stakeholder accountability, and route to success
Execution
Research & Outreach
- Mapped relevant industry manufacturers of comparable, complexity, and maturity
- Lens on high-volume CPG and mature continuous production systems
Evaluation
- Lens on high-volume CPG and mature continuous production systems
- Design, modernise and disseminate world-class manufacturing excellence roadmaps to improve standards and capabilities across the spectrum, resulting in bottom-line benefits to the business
- Develop and implement best practices globally, due to a deep understanding of manufacturing, supply chain and operational excellence
- Produce a step change in the evolution of the manufacturing excellence program through digitalisation, automation, and other modern CI techniques
- Empower and coach leaders across the business to share the best practices, increase their performance, and take ownership of manufacturing excellence results in their domain
Result
The result was a conclusive decision to secure a standout talent who had the full complement of skills, capable of linking commercial advantages with the global markets to prove new concepts and easily win hearts and minds. This is a big role, and it took some big boots to fill it.
Shortlist delivery of six candidates within the agreed timeframe accompanied by a detailed search report and SWOT analysis for each prospect against technical and behavioural competency matrix
- Advisory and guidance to select focus three candidates
- Melium provides client-side support to design and run the internal interview process
- Commercial negotiation assistance to ensure a “right-first-time” offer
This is a high-impact role reporting to the CSCO with big exposure and accountability.
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