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Operational Excellence Manager – East Kilbride
Permanent
Structured career development + Annual performance related pay bonus and pay reviews + Private Medical Insurance + Share scheme + Competitive pension contributions + Range of flexible benefits and Corporate discounts, holiday buy/sell scheme, optional health care and life assurance + Free parking and EV charging + Free hot and cold drinks and subsidised canteen + Excellent parental benefits
Our East Kilbride site produces around 33 million cases of drinks every year across four high-performing production lines, including two glass and two PET bottling lines. As part of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, you'll be joining a business that invests in its people, technology, and future. Whether you're looking to broaden your leadership experience, develop operational excellence capability or drive transformation at scale, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact within a market-leading manufacturing business.
Reporting directly to the Site Director, you'll play a key role in shaping site performance, embedding a culture of continuous improvement and supporting East Kilbride's operational excellence journey.
As Operational Excellence Manager, you'll lead the deployment and maturity of the CCEP Operational Excellence framework, helping to deliver sustainable improvements across safety, quality, service, sustainability, cost, and people performance.
Working closely with site leadership and cross-functional teams, you'll drive continuous improvement initiatives, develop capability across the business and ensure Operational Excellence principles are fully embedded into day-to-day operations.
Using data and performance insights to identify, prioritise and deliver improvement opportunities
Managing and developing the Continuous Improvement team, building capability and promoting a high-performance culture
Overseeing the site's improvement pipeline and ensuring projects deliver measurable business benefits
Facilitating improvement workshops and coaching teams through structured problem-solving methodologies
Reviewing capability requirements and supporting learning and development plans to strengthen operational performance
This is a highly influential role, providing the opportunity to work across all areas of the site while helping shape the future performance and capability of the operation.
A degree relevant to FMCG, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
Proven experience leading operational excellence, continuous improvement or transformation programmes within a manufacturing environment.
Experience implementing performance improvement initiatives and delivering measurable operational results.
The ability to analyse complex data and translate insights into practical actions.
Experience coaching and developing teams to adopt continuous improvement principles and behaviours.
Strong problem-solving capabilities and a data-driven approach.
A passion for coaching, developing capability and driving continuous improvement.
If you're looking for an opportunity to influence site-wide performance, develop organisational capability and play a leading role in shaping the future of one of our key manufacturing sites, we'd love to hear from you.
We combine the scale of a large multinational business with expert local knowledge of the customers and communities we serve, investing, employing, manufacturing and distributing locally.
This commitment is reflected in our recognition as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute and as a Disability Confident Leader. We recognise that some people may prefer not to participate in alcohol-related sales, interactions or promotions. If this applies to you, please speak with your Talent Acquisition contact, who can advise whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.
To find out more about life at CCEP and our culture, visit Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and our careers website at
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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration among a diverse team of 42,000 professionals across 31 markets. With a strong commitment to employee growth, CCEP provides ample opportunities for training and development, particularly in the realm of digital transformation within the supply chain sector. Located in various European HQs, employees benefit from a global network and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the future of one of the world's most beloved brands.
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