Asset Manager – Network Optimization

• Drive integrated network performance across AFEMEA by optimizing asset safety, service, quality, and cost
• Deliver year-over-year cost improvements and drive revenue and profit growth for Technology Groups
• Optimize products and technologies against annual operating plans and long-term strategic objectives
• Monitor opportunity pipelines and network capacity and provide long-term forecasts for market strategies, customer bids, deal strategies, and capital investment decisions
• Evaluate plant and asset performance against peers and develop recapitalization strategies
• Deploy central resources to support best-practice teams in process and asset optimization programs
• Optimize AFEMEA’s strongest assets and define restructuring opportunities
• Partner with R&D and Product Management to optimize the RR asset network and transition non-RR assets to RR-ready assets
• Determine product placement across AFEMEA’s manufacturing network
• Develop business plans for major capital investments and asset management plans
• Define, standardize, and unify core specifications across BNA markets to reduce complexity and cost to produce
• Review asset utilization and performance to identify improvement opportunities
• Work with cross-functional Operations teams to reduce cost to produce
• Provide capacity transparency and identify capability, capacity, and operational constraints
• Develop strategic, multi-generation product plans across the network
• Lead strategies for operationalizing innovation platforms, including sustainable platforms
• Lead competitive benchmarking of capability, quality, service, and cost
• Monitor asset management industry trends and emerging technologies
• Manage investments through the CERG process
• Manage network allocation so products are assigned to appropriate, lowest-cost assets
• Support global and regional projects involving asset-capability mapping, footprint options, and asset lifecycle planning
• Coordinate with global teams to harmonize definitions, standards, classifications, and modeling assumptions
• Partner with Operations, Finance, and IT to deliver safety, service, quality, and cost initiatives
• Contribute to network master planning, MMR processes, and annual budget preparation

• University degree in Engineering or a related field
• Ability to understand Finance and product costing
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in program/project management; administrative experience desirable
• Proficient computer skills and experience with Microsoft Office Suite
• Preferably strong knowledge of the packaging business or related industries such as consumer goods or process industries
• Fluent English; at least one other major European language desirable
• Strong ability and experience to manage in a cross-cultural environment
• Ability to work successfully in a matrix organization and at different organizational levels
• Strong analytical skills for problem-solving and decision-making
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with exceptional attention to detail
• Collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in a team
• Leadership and time management skills
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
• Proficiency in MS Office, including Excel with VBA and PowerPoint, and Power BI
• SFDC, Mills, and SAP knowledge desirable
• Motivated, positive, values-driven, and ambitious

• Permanent employment contract
• Remote work arrangement
• Opportunities to work with global and cross-functional teams
• Professional growth and development through work on strategic initiatives
• Participation in innovation, sustainability, automation, and digital asset capability projects