Portage Plant Manager

6 months ago

Portage la Prairie, Canada Roquette Full time

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

Want to help us make a difference?

Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.

Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

The Plant Manager will develop, oversee and execute the operations strategy to meet business requirements and drive reduction in cost of goods sold (COGS).
- Direct the work of the plant operations leadership.
- Analyze operations requirements and work cross-functionally within operations (internal manufacturing, external manufacturing, supply chain, procurement) as well as with functions outside of operations (business, Quality, R&D, legal).
- Leverage knowledge of industry best practices and appropriate modeling and financial analysis to recommend solutions to enhance operations performance and profitability.
- Oversee and execute operations strategies that will develop and ensure consistent and efficient flow of product across the supply chain from supplier to customer and enable best in class service to internal and external customers.
- Consider latest developments in the competitive technology, EH&S and team development.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead and manage Roquette Pea site manufacturing, maintenance, and environmental/health/safety. These teams will be held accountable with goals and objectives aligned with the broader organization.
- Manage key partner relationships and performance.
- Develop and execute an operations strategy to meet and exceed key company performance goals, including cost reductions and inventory targets; capacity growth; and meeting customer quality and delivery requirements. He/she will aim to maximize business growth and profitability through strong analytical, collaborative, and influencing skills.
- Take a “customer-back” end-to-end supply chain view and demonstrate commitment and accountability while also anticipating the needs of the customers and focusing the organization to meet them.
- Lead and direct health, safety, and environmental compliance and culture across the organization, both staff and manufacturing teams, to continue success with Roquette’s core value of safety.
- Sponsors Lean Six Sigma projects and actively participates in frequent project reviews.
- Be a change agent for developing key organizational capabilities to continue to improve performance, using such methodologies as Lean Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, as well as other key process and leadership changes / improvements.
- Collaborate with all functional areas to ensure alignment with key priorities and make certain that new products, plans, processes, and other service requirements are effectively translated into operational plans.
- Motivate, develop, retain, and recruit top talent across the organization through employee engagement tools and trusting relationships.
- Design goals and expectations that motivate the organization to achieve the results required for sustainable success.

Roquette is proud to be a global company where you can find personal and professional growth through multiple diverse experiences.

Roquette believes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion must be woven into everything we do, from the products we make, through the relationships we build with our partners, and most importantly within the teams we create and how we interact together.

As we continue to grow, Roquette understands that to be successful we must always be inclusive in our approach, by creating a workforce that represents the world we live in, and the communities and customers we serve.

To find out more about our products, values and sustainable development ambitions visit us at

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