Plant Director

Schneider Electric is seeking a visionary Plant Director to drive our Manisa Plant organization forward. Reporting directly to the Region International VP, you'll be based in Manisa, where you'll play a crucial role in shaping our strategy and supporting our business growth.

Main Activities

• Protect People & Environment, engagement and efficiency

a. People & Environment protection

As plant/DC manager you have the duty to guarantee a safe working environment for each person at every

moment. Make sure the operations performed are protecting the environment and focused on sustainability

(Energy consumption, water consumption, air & ground pollution, zero waste to landfill, Circular economy).

b. People Engagement & Efficiency

We all know that high people engagement makes a difference on operational results. Therefore, you should

continuously animate, develop, support and innovate in this capacity to keep the teams performing and

continuously improving over time. Building the best team is one of our leadership expectations and is key for you

as plant/DC manager to face your challenges and deliver the expected performance. You have the responsibility

to make sure the team members have the right skill sets, diversity and the adequate behavior to achieve their

goals. This includes recruiting the right talent, putting them in the right roles, and building succession paths. You

play an important role in the development and growth of your team by coaching & mentoring them, proposing a

training path, and providing them exposure opportunities inside and outside of the entity.

c. Relationships with local unions & local authorities

Based on the local regulations, you have the responsibility to represent your entity and make sure the legal

social agenda is followed, the information is given to the work council according to the law.

d. Relationships with Business/Sales organizations

A strong understanding of the business and the customer needs is critical. The plant manager must build strong,

collaborative relationships with the businesses who are depending on their product

Serve customer satisfaction & ensure full customer experience

Stating the obvious, everything starts from knowing your business and understanding the customers’

expectations and needs in terms of offer quality, service level, and cost.

The Schneider Electric brand expects perfection on product and systems quality. No trade off can be accepted

by our customers. To protect this quality image of our offers and develop growth, you will Use Your Judgement

to put the Customer interest in anything you and your team do. Strive to consistently improve the Customer

experience in Schneider Electric interactions by leveraging the appropriate processes, deploying the right tools

& digital capabilities, and engaging your team in continuous transformation and improvement actions,

orchestrating and mastering the Schneider Performance System (SPS), to Deliver the Results.

• Guarantee manufacturing cost, cash competitiveness and optimize the Capital Employed

As plant/DC you own your P&L and have the responsibility to activate improvement actions while respecting

global policy & strategy (procurement, quality, technical…) to reduce the cost of the offer in the plant/DC. To

perform this duty, you should have a clear understanding of the offer cost structure (CoGS breakdown) and

translate all actions performed at every level of the cost structure into P&L savings. This includes material cost

management through common products and parts benchmarks, MEC/NEC ratio analysis, production and

process automation solutions, etc - which contribute to Consolidated Standard Cost (CSC) improvements.

• Represent Schneider Electric as a global company in the local ecosystem

a. Ethics, Responsibility, and Leadership at a local level

The plant/DC manager is the Schneider Electric face in the local environment. You represent Schneider Electric

in front local official authorities & associations. To perform this responsibility properly, you should understand

and be aware of all rules and regulations applicable to their activity and make sure entity complies with them. As

a plant/DC manager, you may also be involved in local activities (industrial exhibitions etc…).

b. Strategy and Vision at a global level

While representing Schneider Electric at a local level, the plant/DC manager should understand the global vision

and strategy for Schneider Electric at a global level and unfold this strategy into concrete local actions

throughout the deployment and animation of the Winning Plan. The Plant/DC Manager plays a critical role in

Shaping Our Future. You must always consider your Plant/DC as a part of the Global Supply Chain (GSC)

network and align the business in this broader context. This applies to the Schneider Electric core values,

leadership expectations, and process and system standardization (i.e. SPS, interaction with central functions,

orchestration of the global supply chain network).

Managerial / leadership expectations are:

• Engage all staff to a common objective

• Effective Change/Transformation agent –

comfortable in innovating

• Strong collaboration with internal and external

ecosystem

• Customer-centric

• Team builder

• 1/3-time in strategic and 2/3-time operational

• Fast, flexible, agile and decisive

• Communicate at all levels effectively

• Transform strategy into concrete and simplified

actions

• Reactive in the short term, planning for the

long term

• Leading in the Digital Era

Interactions

• Inside my entity :Plant , Support Function Regional, LoB

• Outside of my entity :Front Office & Customer

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Supply

Chain-related

Specific Features

• English

• Local Plant/DC language is a plus

• Inspiring Transformational Leader

• Network Builder

• Digital Citizen / Enthusiast

Key Systems

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

• Quality improvement tools, techniques & models

• Statistical techniques and analysis

Experience Level

• Industrial/Technical knowledge

• Hierarchical management position