POSITION: Senior Director Manufacturing, Food and Industrial Ingredients, US/Canada

LOCATION: Westchester, IL

REPORTS TO: VP Operations, Food & Industrial Ingredients, US/Canada

The Senior Director, Manufacturing, Food & Industrial Ingredion, US/Canada will have high emotional intelligence including a growth mindset. This leader will be customer centric, and able to develop an operating strategy that supports our business growth strategy. Their strategic capability will be a critical differentiator versus only being an operational manager. This strategic leader will ensure manufacturing enables the projected growth.

This role is responsible for developing and executing a manufacturing strategy to support the overall business strategy and deliver a competitive advantage. They’ll drive continuous improvement in manufacturing by providing leadership to an organization of ~1000 employees across six manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada with revenue of $2.3B. Lead and support all aspects of production, cost, efficiency, quality, safety, environmental with the objective to ensure world class operations across the region to deliver on time, high quality, and cost-effective products to our customers.
 

Core Responsibilities:

• Manage manufacturing facilities to achieve safety, quality, environmental and annual production targets, while optimizing production mix and deploying the lowest delivered cost alternatives.
• Lead and drive the Safety agenda to ensure Zero accidents or incidents within the role scope.
• Deliver NSS (Net Structural Savings) commitment to improve manufacturing cost position in all areas.
• Implement strategies to meet Ingredion’s sustainability goals.
• Foster alignment and support among key leaders on the multi-year implementation plan for IPS (Ingredion Performance System - Ingredion’s Lean and Continuous Improvement system).
• Ensures full compliance in the Environmental area. Oversee and review related projects and anticipate regulation changes to ensure operations continuity and compliance.
• Propose and lead network optimization efforts to ensure best level of utilization and ROIC (Return on Invested Capital) across the region
• Brings best practices to the organization – Champions new processes, removes barriers and adapts current processes to facilitate improvement.
• Partner with Commercial, Innovation, R&D, Supply Chain, and other functional teams to identify innovative ways to reallocate production capacity to new products.
• Develop the organization’s capital needs. Work with the plants to identify the most strategic and efficient use of capital.
• Ensure that the Plants are in full compliance with all local regulations and corporate policies.
• Support all programs for the overall health, safety, and security of our employees, our facilities, and the municipalities we operate in.
• Transformational and inspirational leader who can build and grow the organization to create a best-in-class Operations function by leading the team with rigor and pursuit of excellence, developing talent for export to broader regional roles and broader global operations roles.
• Create a talent culture founded on a strong conviction that superior talent delivers superior results; they scout to find the best people, drive performance, coach transparently, and build strong teams globally.
• Push to continually drive personal and organizational results, make timely decisions that benefit Ingredion globally, take educated risks on business opportunities and benchmark external best practices to outperform the competition.
• Challenge the status quo and promote bold thinking to create value in new ways across customers, processes, products, and solutions to stay relevant and competitive in changing markets.
• Develops and mentors manufacturing teams to ensure appropriate capability and talent bench strength and succession plans in the region to meet business goals.
• Builds strong relationships with Innovation and Strategy groups and prepares deployment plans for new products and capabilities.
• Represents Ingredion externally and internally within regional scope

Qualified candidates will have:

• Leadership experience in Manufacturing, Lean/Continuous Improvement, Procurement and Supply Chain roles in complex business to business environments, preferably in food or chemical industries
• Degree qualified in relevant Engineering or Science subject. MBA is a plus.
• Must have demonstrated Plant Management experience, ideally coupled with strong Supply Chain understanding.
• Strong functional knowledge of Operations best practices
• Successful track record in leading sizable and multiple manufacturing sites across different countries/regions and effectively managing multicultural teams locally and remotely. 
• Excellent communication skills at all levels of the organization, (from executives to shop floor employees)
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.

Required behaviors and skills:

• Demonstrated self-starter with strong leadership skills and a high degree of integrity.
• Leadership potential for development into future positions
• Must be willing to relocate to Chicago, USA for this role.
• Growth Mindset
• People Leadership
• Talent Coach and Developer
• Drive for Results
• Business Acumen
• Strategic Agility
• Customer Focused
• Ability to build and lead high performing teams.
• Data driven, ability to analyze and draw conclusion from complex data.
• Ability to influence various stakeholders.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, military status, or disability status.

Ingredion provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If a job applicant requires an accommodation during the application process or through the selection process, we will work with the applicant to meet the job applicant's accommodation needs.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Ingredion seeks to provide a work environment that is free from harassment and discrimination. We will not tolerate any form of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, handicap or disability—mental or physical—marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability resulting from military service, or any other classification protected by law (“protected classifications”). We are committed to establishing and maintaining a work environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

Relocation Available:

Yes, Within Country