General Manager, Commercial Products Supply Plant

Role located in Bawla

Position Overview

CPS (Commercial Products Supply) is a key part of the Technical, Innovation and Supply Chain Function (TISC) of The Coca-Cola Company. CPS manufactures concentrates and beverage bases for sale to bottling partners all over the world.

The CPS Plant General Manager provides leadership and strategic direction for 1 Plant in a specific country, in all areas of Plant Management, Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, QSE, Finance, HR and Operational Excellence while ensuring continuity of supply.

The Plant General Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the Plant always have necessary resources under an approved annual business plan while ensuring its timely execution, implementation of key programs, compliance with all KO Standards and local regulations.

This role will be based out of the new brownfield site at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The site will only produce Dry powder concentrate and supply to CPS Pune as its sole customer. Initially the site will manufacture about 50 SKUs of dry parts only.

Key Responsibilities

• Play a key role as a leader of the Local Leadership Team in Ahmedabad, India, implementing the long-term strategy, vision and mission for CPS.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction for the Plant, in all areas of Plant Management, Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, QSE, Finance, HR and Operational Excellence.
• Act as the site leader with local legal entity responsibility, including local regulatory, authority relationship and management.
• Be responsible for ensuring that the Plant achieves its annual business plan, implementation of key programs, compliance with all KO Standards and local regulations. This will require extensive use of standardized procedures, processes, technologies and equipment and will require close collaboration with other members of the Local LT implementing agreed strategies in the Plant.
• Ensure that the Plant is working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure service to its customer at the optimum cost, with the highest levels of quality and service.
• As a member of the global General Manager community, ensure alignment and standardization across all CPS sites on a number of strategic matters.
• Lead and manage a team of direct reports while also providing leadership to a number of indirect reports to maintain and further enhance employee engagement.
• Will also identify, develop and grow the next generation of Local leaders through active performance management, coaching, feedback and the People Development Forum (PDF) process.
• Support new CPS India green field project as required during project phase and Operations phase.

What We Can Do For You

• Purpose Driven: Purpose driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment and communities we serve while delivering safe & quality products.
• Global Connections: Allows you to develop, enhance and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
• Community of Belonging: We’re an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered, lets you bring your best self to work.

Skills:

Customer Experience (CX); Influencing; Continual Improvement Process; Business Transformation; Collaborative Leadership; Business Processes; Industry Networking; Project Management; Trend Analysis; Agile Methodology; Microsoft Office; Process Management; Communication; Long Term Planning; Corporate Storytelling

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what's possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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