Production Analyst

Job description

Company information

Danone is a major FMCG company in the UK, with market leading brands across four divisions: Waters (Evian, Volvic), Dairies (Actimel, Activia, Shape), Early Life Nutrition (Aptamil, Cow & Gate) and Nutricia Advanced Medical Nutrition (Neocate, Fortisip).

You’ve probably never heard of Nutricia Advanced Medical Nutrition but read on and you’ll be glad you did. We are Danone’s Medical Division and are Europe’s largest specialist nutrition company and the market leader in the UK. We specialise in the delivery of medical nutrition for the very young, the old and the sick, supplying high quality feeds to patients and consumers. Our purpose is to pioneer nutritional discoveries that help people live longer, healthier lives.

When it comes to finding a great place to work there are plenty of things to look for: inspirational colleagues, freedom in your job to make a real difference, and a shared ethos you can truly believe in. Throw in top perks, a responsive and dynamic environment and unrivalled opportunities to develop personally and professionally and you’ve found something pretty special. You’ve found Danone.

Here at Danone we put people at the centre of everything we do – whether we’re developing ground-breaking new products, taking care of individual patients, or supporting the community. And if you join us you can expect exactly that sort of attention too.

What about Nutricia?

Nutricia is enjoying double digit growth in production volumes as the medical nutrition products have a strong market share. The business is operating within a mature market but there is still scope for expansion both within local and global markets, and the emphasis in the coming years with be on maintaining volume growth, whilst ensuring we drive our cost targets in the right direction.

Job description

Do you know your VLOOKUP from your HLOOKUP? How about your macros from your nested formulas? If you do and you love working with excel we may have an amazing opportunity for you. Nutricia Liverpool is looking for a Production Analyst, a key cog in our Operations team. More than an administration function, the role focuses on coordinating and manipulating the production data across the KPI dashboard to provide the Operations Leaders with key data to make drive performance. Data and system savvy you will enjoy enjoy working with multiple stakeholders to meet their needs whilst balancing completing routine tasks to tight deadlines. In return you’ll get a fantastic salary plus an excellent benefits package.

What will I be doing day to day?

·  Daily management of the Health and Safety system
·  Daily input of manufacturing performance data into appropriate excel based dashboards
·  Daily review of Packing OEE system data daily to make amendments or flag where necessary
·  Weekly SIM KPI data generation & maintenance of datasources
·  Generate information from multiple systems and sources to create weekly statistic reports for SQCDME boards within Production
·  Generation and follow-up of Purchase Orders for Operations and adhoc requests for CI/CapEx initiatives
·  Provide administrative support for the management of the Production department budget
·  Daily scanning and physical archiving all paper-based information from the factory for audit traceability, including environmental, CCP, X-ray, Blending times, Weight record documentation – approx. 200 documents / week
·  Provide Administrative support for Production department meetings where required (H&S, Losses etc)
·  Working with the Shift Leaders supporting on general administration duties e.g. creating excel macro templates for data analysis of production performance
·  Co-ordinate agency staffing requirements for Production teams with the Shift Leaders depending on requirements based on daily plan and absence
·  Provide weekly dashboards and monthly data about agency worker use across Operations
·  Weekly alignment of Agency biometric site access - liaising with reception and Search to ensure correct access requirements
·  Generation of Purchase Orders for agency staff payments
·  Auditing and management of Agency worker documentation – inputting into Qpulse, managing expired training doc

What does the ideal candidate look like?

·  Data driven mindset with advanced excel skillset to coordinate and manipulate data as per stakeholder requirements
·  Digitally and system savvy
·  Highly organised with ability to meet regular, tight deadlines
·  Disciplined approach to completing routine daily and weekly activities
·  Able to effectively influence stakeholders
·  Comfortable working autonomously to deliver work load
·  SAP Skills not essential
·  Excel, Word, PowerPoint knowledge

Interested in this role and have the experience we are looking for? Please submit your application through jobs.danone.com

All you need to do is upload your CV and answer a few job-related questions before Wednesday 11th December.