Position Title:  Senior Manager Business Excellence

Be a part of a revolutionary change

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business, and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly new directions.

Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI’s shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning.

Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday, and we’ll give you lots of responsibility. You’ll help us improve, inject innovation and create new ways of working. You’ll be solving supply chain problems that span the whole world: a smoke-free world

For our Operations Strategy & Excellence Team we are looking for a Sr. Manager Business Excellence  based in our Manufacturing and Technology center in Crespellano

PM MTB is Philip Morris International’s Center of excellence, worldwide recognized for prototyping, mass-volume production, and employees’ training on smoke-free products. PM MTB employs more than 1000 employees and its production site of Crespellano is one of the most advanced manufacturing venues in Italy for technology innovation, competencies development and talent recognition.

Your ‘day to day:

Enhance effectiveness and efficiency of critical business processes to deliver business impact, bringing thought leadership and driving decisions through objective analytics and outside in knowledge

• Lead the deployment of the business excellence model across the functions to build people capabilities and bring sustainability in the way of working, as per established deployment strategy.
• Coach the organization to apply the identified business excellence capabilities (i.e. mothods, standards) to achieve step change in performance, drive innovation through increasing organization reliability and agility
• Assess the organization capabilities and maturity vs. deployed excellence capabilities, as per established plan and KPIs. Diagnose functions activities and identify know-how and organizational behaviors that are barriers to excel
• Continuously review operations best practices and current best approaches to ensure they are shared, adopted and integrated into the model and deployed to the relevant function
  
  

Who we’re looking for:

• Engineering degree
• MBA degree is a plus
• Lean certified trainer is a plus
• 8-12 years of corporate experience
• Successful work experience in Operations at scale (global functions/large market) within consulting/FMCG/Consumer electronics/ E-Commerce
• Successful track record of performance throughout career
• Experience leading and influencing executive management
• Previous experience as team leader/people manager
• Experience with business excellence, demonstrated knowledge of using Business Excellence Capabilities to deliver breakthrough process and performance improvements
• Able to gather experience gathering insights from outside benchmarks, ways of working, bringing various related source of data and strong analytics skills to make the case for change.
  
  

What we offer:

Our success depends on the people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future worldwide.