Senior Manager - Production Services at Clorox in Durham, NC

Job description

Clorox is the place that’s committed to growth – for our people and our brands. Guided by our purpose and values, and with people at the center of everything we do, we believe every one of us can make a positive impact on consumers, communities, and teammates. Join our team. #CloroxIsThePlace Your role at Clorox: The Production Services team is part of the Food/Burt’s Technical Services organization and is committed to delivering cost savings, quality improvements, supply assurance, qualification, brand maintenance, and technical issue-resolution projects with excellence. You will report to the Technical Services Leader with most of your direct reports being located in Alpharetta GA and Durham NC. In this role, you will: This position will manage the Food & Burt’s Production Services team to deliver excellent technical support in execution of key PSO and business-critical projects across the Food & Burt’s businesses, including cost savings, supply assurance, brand maintenance, qualifications, quality improvement and innovation support. Ensures effective interfaces between our Production Services organization and PSO, R&D, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing and External Manufacturers. Develops technical and leadership excellence across the team and is recognized as a key business partner and leader by the Product Supply Organization and our functional stakeholders. This role sets multi-year technical capability strategy for Food & Burt’s, leads Production Services standard work across both BUs, and represents the BU in enterprise forums such as the Production Services Community of Practice. The Food & Burt’s Production Services team serves as business leaders and technical experts across products, packaging, processes, manufacturing systems, external manufacturers, specifications, enterprise wide systems and qualifications. While we sit within the center Business Unit (BU), we are strong partners with our manufacturing plants, EMs, R&D, Quality, Engineering and Procurement teams to ensure great products produced at the best value and continued supply. This work is achieved through activities such as Packaging Material Design/Specs, process/formulation troubleshooting, support of new Innovation development/implementation, data analysis, specification development, laboratory testing, manufacturing line trials, process & equipment support, and cross-functional technical problem solving. What we look for: People & Talent Leadership: Owns Succession Planning and bench strength for Production Services key roles, in line with the BU People Plan; develops Ready-Now successors and builds future-ready technical capability. Lead a team of technical professionals supporting Food & Burt’s Production Services across process, packaging and manufacturing. Lead a team of up to 6 direct/indirect reports with multi-functional responsibility across the Food & Burt’s BU. Typical number of direct reports varies from 4-6. The majority of the staff is geographically located in Alpharetta, GA or Durham, NC. Direct reports span a grade range level from 23-26. Development of PS staff both as technical experts and PSO leaders. Leads PSO staff discussions to enable career development of current team and broader PSO individuals. Functional & Strategic Leadership: Member of the Food/Burt’s Technical Leadership Team, evaluating personnel moves, organizational design, capability gaps, technical needs, and resource requirements across the BU. Actively interacts with key partners and stakeholders including Director of Manufacturing, Engineering, GSS, Quality, Manufacturing, R&D, Operations, and external manufacturers. Ensures proper project prioritization and adequate resource allocation, ensuring the team’s support across multiple business units, sites, external manufacturers, and projects meets business requirements and our customers’ expectations. Recognized expert in technical and operational processes required to support the 2 Businesses, incl