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Vetoquinol

Develops and markets veterinary medicines

Operational Excellence Manager - Industrial Site

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLure, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university or Grande École diploma in a business-school or engineering-school discipline is required.
  • Lean or Six Sigma Black Belt certification is required.
  • At least five years of experience in a continuous-improvement role at an industrial site is required.
  • A good understanding of financial-results forecasting, financial analysis, and cost calculation is required.
  • A good understanding of commercial and technical matters, including digital technology, is required.
  • Strong computer skills in Excel, enterprise resource planning systems, and Word are required.
  • Understanding of core industrial processes, including production, quality, supply chain, warehousing, and logistics, is required.
  • English proficiency at B2 level is required.
  • The candidate must be able to work in multicultural teams.
  • The candidate must demonstrate results orientation, change management and support skills, and influence.

Responsibilities

  • Identify situations that could affect the physical and psychological well-being of team members, implement preventive actions, and mobilize necessary resources.
  • Follow and enforce applicable safety rules, implement corrective actions, participate in safety audits, optimize energy consumption, and support environmental-protection actions.
  • Manage the activity of the team, create the conditions for its success, contribute to team cohesion, and encourage cross-functional collaboration.
  • Ensure that team members have the knowledge and skills needed to achieve assigned missions and objectives.
  • Lead a site-effectiveness diagnosis against local and Group expectations.
  • Define, with area managers, a roadmap for improving performance measured by key performance indicators and specific objectives.
  • Ensure that Group operational-excellence expectations are addressed locally in collaboration with the plant director and STMEO manager.
  • Support operational teams and help define corrective actions when objectives are not achieved.
  • Ensure updates to routings, bills of materials, and technical methods, and lead the process for analyzing production deviations from routings and implementing necessary actions.
  • Ensure the implementation and effectiveness of operational-excellence actions and their actual contribution to performance measured by key performance indicators.
  • Build, organize, train, coordinate, coach, and continuously support the operational-excellence network.
  • Ensure that network members, managers, and employees have the knowledge and skills needed to accomplish assigned missions and objectives, and propose development actions when necessary.
  • Use a systemic approach to make processes and their performance-improvement potential visible.
  • Improve process effectiveness and ensure that all interconnections operate effectively.
  • Participate in designing new processes to achieve the best performance.
  • Ensure the proper local implementation of Group operational-excellence standards.
  • Monitor new methodologies and share them with the Group network.
  • Share local experience, learn from other sites, and implement their best practices.
  • Contribute to defining Group standards and Group initiatives.
  • Collaborate with Group operational-excellence leadership, operational-excellence managers at other industrial sites, the plant director's direct reports, and finance, human resources, operations, supply-chain, quality, safety, and product-development leaders.
  • Travel occasionally.

About the Company

Vetoquinol

Develops and markets veterinary medicines

Vetoquinol is a global animal health company that develops and markets medicines and health products for pets and livestock. Its products are used to treat diseases, prevent illness, and support animal well-being, distributed through a network of subsidiaries and partners in about 24 direct countries with products available in around 100 countries. Core operations include research, development, and commercialisation of veterinary pharmaceuticals and health solutions for both companion and farm animals. What sets Vetoquinol apart is its long family-led history and steady international expansion, including an IPO in 2006 to accelerate growth, which has helped it build a widespread, multi-country presence. The company’s goal is to improve animal health globally by bringing effective veterinary products to markets around the world and expanding access through direct operations and partnerships.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1933

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