Senior Manager - Production Services

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Your role at Clorox:

The Production Services team is part of the Food/Burt’s Technical Services organization and is committed to delivering cost savings, quality improvements, supply assurance, qualification, brand maintenance, and technical issue-resolution projects with excellence. You will report to the Technical Services Leader with most of your direct reports being located in Alpharetta GA and Durham NC.

In this role, you will:

This position will manage the Food & Burt’s Production Services team to deliver excellent technical support in execution of key PSO and business-critical projects across the Food & Burt’s businesses, including cost savings, supply assurance, brand maintenance, qualifications, quality improvement and innovation support. Ensures effective interfaces between our Production Services organization and PSO, R&D, Quality, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing and External Manufacturers. Develops technical and leadership excellence across the team and is recognized as a key business partner and leader by the Product Supply Organization and our functional stakeholders.

This role sets multi-year technical capability strategy for Food & Burt’s, leads Production Services standard work across both BUs, and represents the BU in enterprise forums such as the Production Services Community of Practice.

The Food & Burt’s Production Services team serves as business leaders and technical experts across products, packaging, processes, manufacturing systems, external manufacturers, specifications, enterprise wide systems and qualifications. While we sit within the center Business Unit (BU), we are strong partners with our manufacturing plants, EMs, R&D, Quality, Engineering and Procurement teams to ensure great products produced at the best value and continued supply. This work is achieved through activities such as Packaging Material Design/Specs, process/formulation troubleshooting, support of new Innovation development/implementation, data analysis, specification development, laboratory testing, manufacturing line trials, process & equipment support, and cross-functional technical problem solving.

What we look for:

People & Talent Leadership:

• Owns Succession Planning and bench strength for Production Services key roles, in line with the BU People Plan; develops Ready-Now successors and builds future-ready technical capability.

• Lead a team of technical professionals supporting Food & Burt’s Production Services across process, packaging and manufacturing.
• Lead a team of up to 6 direct/indirect reports with multi-functional responsibility across the Food & Burt’s BU. Typical number of direct reports varies from 4-6.
• The majority of the staff is geographically located in Alpharetta, GA or Durham, NC. Direct reports span a grade range level from 23-26.
• Development of PS staff both as technical experts and PSO leaders.
• Leads PSO staff discussions to enable career development of current team and broader PSO individuals.

Functional & Strategic Leadership:

• Member of the Food/Burt’s Technical Leadership Team, evaluating personnel moves, organizational design, capability gaps, technical needs, and resource requirements across the BU.
• Actively interacts with key partners and stakeholders including Director of Manufacturing, Engineering, GSS, Quality, Manufacturing, R&D, Operations, and external manufacturers.
• Ensures proper project prioritization and adequate resource allocation, ensuring the team’s support across multiple business units, sites, external manufacturers, and projects meets business requirements and our customers’ expectations.
• Recognized expert in technical and operational processes required to support the 2 Businesses, including packaging, process equipment, enterprise systems (i.e. SAP S/4, PLM, Engunity, Intelex), qualifications, quality systems, and technical troubleshooting.
• Demonstrates leadership and technical expertise of Production Services WOW
• Ensures delivery of key cost savings, supply assurance, brand maintenance, quality, plant, external manufacturing, and technical issue-resolution initiatives in concert with the business direction.

· Ensure spending controls are in place to meet T&E budget.

Portfolio Oversight:

• Owns the Food & Burt’s Production Services portfolio, personally leading complex, business-critical or high-risk initiatives.
• Influences Food & Burt’s operating and functional leadership teams to make required decisions, align priorities, provide direction on projects, define scope, and ensure understanding of risks.
• Lead Food and Burt’s Production Services activities across packaging and process workstreams, including planning, qualification, implementation, start-up support, and post-launch stabilization for technical deliverables.
• Serve as the technical resource for packaging materials and process interfaces, supporting materials, equipment readiness, manufacturing capability, external manufacturer alignment, plant trials, line trials, and process validation needs.
• Direct large, complex, multi-site and multi-BU technical programs, setting priorities, action plans, trial plans, decision gates, risk mitigation strategies, and structured problem-solving standards for the team across packaging and process-related issues.
• Develop and maintain specifications, manufacturing readiness documentation, change-management records, technical knowledge, and cross-functional communication to protect supply continuity, quality, cost, compliance, food safety, and manufacturing stability.

Workplace type:

This role will require the talent to be located in Alpharetta, GA or Durham, NC and be in office 3x per week in accordance with the Hybrid 2.0 Policy.

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[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $131,200 - $258,500

–Zone B: $120,300 - $237,000

–Zone C: $109,400 - $215,500

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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