Position Job Title: Asset Manager Network Optimization

BG and BU: Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East & Africa (AFEMEA)

Function: Central Manufacturing - Asset Management

Line Manager’s Job Title: Asset Management Senior Director

Location: Open location across Europe

Contract Type: Permanent

JOB PURPOSE

The Asset Management Excellence (AME) team drives integrated network performance across AFEMEA by optimizing asset safety, service, quality, and cost. We enable a future-ready manufacturing footprint, aligned with S&OP; and demand planning, to deliver superior customer service, product quality, and cost-to-produce.

JOB DIMENSIONS & SCOPE

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Subordinates: no

- Line manager: Asset Management Senior Director
- Relationship: AME team, Operations Leadership team, Operational central teams, R&D;, Finance and IT (for the use of the different platforms)

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Financial Results

- Accountable for delivering year-over-year cost improvements and driving revenue and profit growth for the business Technology Groups.
- Responsible for maximizing business performance by optimizing products and technologies and delivering against annual operating plans and long-term strategic objectives.

1. Network Asset Utilisation

- Monitor opportunity pipelines and network capacity, providing long-term forecasts for the Technology Group to inform market strategies, customer bids and deal strategies, and strategic capital investment decisions.




- Evaluate plant and asset performance against peers and move relevant value streams toward best-in-class performance by developing recapitalization strategies and deploying central resources to support best practice teams in process and asset optimization programs across the network.
- Lead continuous efforts to optimize AFEMEA’s strongest assets and define restructuring opportunities within the relevant Technology Groups.
- Partner with R&D; and Product Management to shape the optimized RR asset network and support the transition from non-RR to RR-ready assets, while continuously assessing the project portfolio to maximize value and maintain a balanced portfolio across the network.
- Determine product placement across AFEMEA’s manufacturing network.
- Develop business plans for major capital investments related to the relevant Technology Groups.
- Develop and implement asset management plans that respond to the company’s evolving needs.

1. Lower the Cost to Produce (CTP)

- Lead core specification definition, standardization, and unification across all BNA markets aimed at reducing operational complexity, increasing organizational speed and profit.
- Conduct regular reviews of asset utilization and performance to identify opportunities for improvement in the Technology Group.




- Working with cross-functional Operations teams to drive down the CTP across the network.

1. Growth Enablement

- Provide the business capacity transparency with a view to relevant Technology groups and network capacity to manufacture.
- Facilitate a common approach for developing strategic, multi-generation product plans for each platform of the Technology Group across the network. Determine common capability, capacity, or operational constraints across AFEMEA.
- Develop and lead strategies to operationalize innovation platform introductions which are common to multiple business segments (e.G., sustainable platforms) which maximize AFEMEA’s growth and profit potential. Prioritizing segments where necessary.
- Lead competitive operation benchmarking of capability, quality, service, and cost. Build generational strategies to close gaps or extend lead for relevant the relevant Technology Group.
- Monitor trends in the asset management industry and keep abreast of new technologies and approaches that could be employed by the company.
- Managing investments through cerg process ensuring maximization of Amcor spend.
- Manage network allocation to ensure products are assigned to the most appropriate assets and lowest cost-to-produce locations, in line with the manufacturing strategy.
- Support global/ regional projects related to asset-capability map, footprint options and asset lifecycle planning. Coordinate with general teams to harmonize definitions, standards, classification and modelling assumptions across regions to ensure comparable assets insights.

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