Job description

Job :

Centrale Danone is looking for a Manufacturing Capabilities Leader (MCL) to lead the deployment of the Integrated Work System (IWS) across several factories and strengthen industrial skills at the regional level.

Key Missions:

• Deploy and govern the multi-site IWS, ensuring compliance with Group standards.
• Accelerate IWS maturity and generate measurable value creation (Run to Target, phases...).
• Coach Plant Directors and management teams to strengthen operational leadership.
• Lead the regional IWS pillar (AM, PM, Loss Elimination, E&T).
• Ensure the robustness of RunToTarget (RTT): DDS routines, gap resolution, quick decision-making.
• Structurally reduce industrial losses (PR, SU, quality, waste, downtime...).
• Develop equipment ownership for reliability, performance, and safety.
• Train and qualify site pillar leaders to ensure local autonomy.
• Lead IWS assessments and qualifications of industrial leaders.
• Align business, industrial performance, and field execution.
• Embed a culture of sustainable excellence and continuous improvement.

• Engineer with 6 to 8 years of industrial experience, ideally in the food industry or automotive sector.
• Lean Black Belt certification is mandatory.
• Proven experience in operational excellence and demanding manufacturing environments.
• Multi-site experience and exposure to an international context.
• Solid expertise in at least one IWS / TPM pillar or equivalent system.
• Proficiency in Lean tools, problem-solving, and performance systems.
• Fluent English; regional mobility is essential.
• Strong coaching and influencing skills, with a solid senior coach posture.
• Excellent communication, synthesis, and teaching skills.
• Ability to collaborate with multicultural and global teams.
• Results-oriented, with the ability to generate tangible value creation.
• High field credibility and a partnership approach with operational teams.