Industrial Performance Analyst

Job Location: Brantford, ON

Brantford

Company Description

Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella, Tic Tac, Ferrero Rocher, Raffaello, Kinder Bueno and Kinder Surprise. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

About the Role:

Rocher Squares is an exciting brand-new product for Ferrero, the UGP will consist of preparation, moulding and packaging areas and will employ up to 200 people!

As the AG, you will provide the UGP Manager with all the data and information needed to correctly manage the UGP, through performance monitoring and analysis (i.e. lines, materials, efficiencies, quality, labour, etc.) and directional reporting preparation.

This position is expected to start December 2024.

Shift structure: Day shift

This position reports to the UGP Manager, Squares.

Main Responsibilities:

Budget

• Collaborates, with the UGP Manager and the Controlling Unit, in the production headcount budget elaboration
• Support the UGP and Maintenance Manager in preparing and supplying information for the investment budget elaboration
• Elaborates, together with the UGP Manager, the general expenditure budget (consumable, training, …)
• Performance of production lines
  
  

Monitoring performances and productive factors

• Collaborates with the RDL/UGP Manager in optimizing, on a long term horizon, the production output and performances (materials, labour, machines, methods, scheduling), through the analysis of the available data
• Responsible for the line performance analysis and share information in production meetings
• Collaborates with the UGP Manager for Stock Management, with responsibility for the monthly inventory system adjustment (packaging, raw materials), with RTO, Team Leaders and Packaging component providers supporting him/her mainly for the physical count
• Responsible for the SAP and ADP hours reconciliation (end of the month)
  
  

Gap analysis and Production Scheduling

• Collaborates with UGP Manager in the Production Performance Gap Analysis and participates to improve the identified areas
• Collaborates with the Planning Unit for the Daily Production Scheduling (for week + 1) and in verifying the feasibility / convenience of a production schedule modification within the week
  
  

Continuous Improvement

• Support all players in the continuous improvement process under a economical point of view
• Certify results of continuous improvement action
  
  

Quality and Food Safety

• Ensure all program requirements/standards regarding quality and food safety are implemented, practiced and maintained
  
  

Who we are looking for:

• Knowledge of production process, methods and Ferrero information systems related to production
• Familiar with production cycles, models, production efficiencies and stock management
• Knowledge of inventory processes
• Knowledge and application of production KPI’s
• Knowledge of planning techniques
• Knowledge and application of production performance analysis methods
• Excellent (intermediate level) knowledge and demonstrated intermediate/ advanced use of Excel
• Knowledge of Word, Outlook and PowerPoint software
• Strong knowledge of SAP
• Bachelor's Degree/ College Diploma withn the fields of Business or related industries.
  
  

How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:

Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.

Diversity Statement

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.