Job description

McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Continuous Improvement Manager. This new hire will work in Hunt Valley, MD . The Continuous Improvement Manager will report to a Department Manager.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand."
As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting to the Continuous Improvement Department Manager, the Continuous Improvement Manager will be responsible for providing leadership, direction, and functional expertise to the Plant for loss analysis, analytics, and training systems. This position supports the Plant Leadership Team in the JTE (Journey to Excellence) strategy focused on building Employee capability, enhancing the data reliability systems, and driving Employee engagement through implementation of high-performance work systems to achieve exceptional business results.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Creating visibility to Loss Data
Owning Loss Analysis program to support site’s OGSM and budget targets
Helping prioritize loss reduction projects in collaboration with the site leadership team
Providing supporting data analysis and justifications for any technology improvements and capital expenditures and feasibility studies
Leading site Focused Improvement pillar
Leading site Data and Analytics
Maintaining integrity of site data through training, health checks, and change control. Focus includes scorecards, downtime data base, manual tracking systems and SAP master data.
Providing analysis and insights to key performance metrics like Process Reliability, Productivity, Yield and Scrap.
Collating and publishing site scorecard every month.
Creating and executing site Analytics strategy.
Establishing scorecard review processes based on the appropriate frequency and participants.
Driving data-based decision-making behavior at all levels
Implement Effective Training systems

Coach site employees and SMEs on the methodology and tools:
Basic performance data and trends
Problem solving
Root cause analysis
Loss Reduction projects
Participate on Training and Development Pillar
Create and maintain site training systems
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum of 3 years working in manufacturing operations
Background in Total Productive Maintenance / Lean, Change Management and Organizational Effectiveness
Familiarity with creating reports using our current (and future) BI tools, e.g. Power BI, Tableau
Experience analyzing complex datasets, generating insights and building robust statistical models. Should be comfortable working with structured and unstructured data.
Ability to analyze complex information in order to make judgments and decisions. Data intensive - thrives in detail with purpose - does not get paralyzed by analysis.
Ability to create people change plan for strategic initiatives. Ability to be an influencer of large or high-risk change initiatives.
Create intra-plant collaboration (operations, functional areas, support areas)
Ability to provide key insights to leadership in order to influence priority development
Ability to develop action plans, obtain or assign resources, and align day-to-day processes to achieve strategic goals.
Ability to analyze data to gather actionable insights.
Ability to achieve project goals and objectives by applying the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about successful project completion.
Understand key financial topics, including: Budgeting, Cost Center Ownership, CAAP, IRR, Yield, Waste, Scrap and Loss Analysis
Ability to use appropriate root cause analysis decision tools for decision making
Ability and willingness to work flexible hours and days as needed to meet business demands

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in a CPG
Team and Operations Leadership experience
Experience developing justifications and cost estimates for capital projects
Experience developing and writing procedures (SOP’s) with cross functional teams and supporting training activities
Experience leading and coaching process improvement and/or continuous improvement teams

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.

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