Senior Manager, Global Capex Systems Engineering

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Remote

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

January 30, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

We are on a multi-year transformation journey to modernize and automate our manufacturing and warehousing, as well as to execute multiple new brownfield and greenfield expansions. The significant increase in capex requires a different approach to capex budgeting, decision making, forecasting and spending. The Capex Systems Engineering Manager will lead this for the Commercial Product Supply (CPS) organization.  This is a highly impactful role with visibility across the CPS leadership team and the global organization. The candidate should be solutions-oriented, have strong working knowledge of capex management and project management systems with a passion to build organization capability and systems needed to effectively deliver the high level of capex spend.

What You’ll do for us: The Global Capex System Engineering Manager will:

• Lead investment project portfolio management within Global CPS Engineering, strongly partnering with each of the 19 manufacturing plants, Finance, and other central functions.
• Own capex forecasting for CPS in partnership with Finance. Ensure accurate annual, quarterly and monthly capex forecasts.
• Develop and improve capex management work processes, including work process simplification and digitization. Partner with plant engineering leaders to integrate multi-year capex forecasting with site masterplanning.
• Develop Project and Capex Management capability for Engineering across all sites, creating materials, templates, and skills matrices. This includes developing Engineering work processes, and targets-based design.
• Collaborate with sites and Global Design Engineering to drive rapid reapplication of best-in-class approaches, and methodologies for capex and project management.
• Create capex cost database of facilities and equipment for CPS and partner with each of the plants for strategic projects so that more accurate cost estimates can be created, and benchmarking can be done across the programs and sites.
• Work closely with procurement for driving capex effectiveness.
• Guide project managers and site engineering managers through funding, and monitor/audit design and delivery activities to ensure executional excellence.
• Support funding / execution strategies for complex projects.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required.
• 5-10 years of experience in FMCG environment leading projects at a manufacturing location.
• Mastery in project management with experience both in large and small projects. This should include actual experience in a manufacturing environment executing projects.
• Experience in capital budgeting, forecasting. Strong knowledge of SAP for capex management.
• Detail oriented, analytical, and creative thinker with passion to improve and digitize capex and project management work processes.
• Excellent project management, planning and organization skills and ability to work and deliver in changing environments while adhering to specified deadlines. PMP certification is preferred.
• Strong influencing and communication skills. Demonstrated ability to lead teams and get results in a matrixed organization.
• Knowledge of technical skills in FMCG industry needed. Experience in operations is preferred.
• Experience in Complex program management / implementation, influencing and communication skills in preferred.
• Detailed knowledge of capital project oversight including new equipment installation and vendor management.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.

What We Can Do For You

• Leadership Development: Our Company’s purpose clearly speaks to the importance of leadership. We feel everyone has potential to be a great leader at Coca-Cola and have set the bar high.
• Total Rewards: Our benefits, called Total Rewards, is about the total value of working at The Coca-Cola Company. It is focused on the complete package of pay, benefits, learning and personal support you receive as a Coca-Cola employee.
• Learning & Development: At The Coca-Cola Company we believe innovation can't happen without continuous learning and we provide our employees many ways to grow professional and personally.
• Skills: ISO (22000, 9000, 14001, etc), Lean Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, Change Management, Lean manufacturing, Microsoft office, Good Manufacturing Practices, Quality Control, Standard Operating Procedures, Production Management, Production Processes, Project Management, Microsoft Office

Location: This role is open to remote locations within US. It is also open to other locations if there is a candidate with the right fit. 10% travel will be required.

Reporting to: The role reports to Global Engineering VP, Commercial Product Supply (CPS)

Skills Leadership; Standard Operating Procedure (SOP); Influencing; Lean Manufacturing; Capital Management, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP); Project Management; Microsoft Office; People Management; ISO 14001; Lean Six Sigma Processes; Quality Control (QC); Change Management; Production Processes; Continuous Improvement (CI), PMP Certification

Skills:

Change Management, Forecasting, Influencing, Leadership, Manufacturing, organization, People Management, Program Management, Project Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), SAP Modules

Pay Range:

$131,000 - $153,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

15

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

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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