The Role

Schedule: Full Time, Remote

Location: Flexible

Travel: 50%

You will play a pivotal role in overseeing the development and implementation of asset care strategies across Imperial Brands factories. This position focuses on optimizing asset performance, reliability, and longevity through innovative maintenance practices and technologies. You will lead the deployment of global strategies for autonomous and preventive maintenance, ensuring the delivery of improvement programs across the operations network. Additionally, you will support the implementation of asset care optimization projects to enhance machine availability and cost efficiency.

As the Global Asset Care Deployment Manager, you'll join an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees.

Principle Accountabilities

• Contribute to the formulation of asset care deployment strategies aligned with organizational goals and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with regional teams and stakeholders to ensure consistent implementation of asset care strategies across all locations worldwide.
• Establish metrics and KPIs to evaluate the effectiveness of asset care initiatives and track performance against targets.
• Identify and integrate emerging technologies and methodologies for asset care into existing systems and processes.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through innovation, knowledge sharing, and process optimization within the asset care team.
• Proactively anticipate and mitigate risks related to asset reliability and performance through maintenance planning and risk assessment.

Skills and Experience Required

• Experience in developing and executing global maintenance strategies within a large-scale manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to manage and implement continuous improvement programs.
• Strong knowledge of preventive, autonomous, and predictive maintenance practices.
• Experience in working with cross-functional and remote teams in diverse cultural settings.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Ability to identify and drive technological integration and process automation opportunities.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and many extras including a great pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement and hybrid/flexible working opportunities as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.