IE Manager

City: Suzhou

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Supply​

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

Lead industrial engineering, end-to-end value stream optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives across the manufacturing site to improve productivity, operational efficiency, service, agility, labor utilization, and cost competitiveness while ensuring safety, quality, and compliance standards are maintained.

The role is responsible for driving end-to-end Value Stream Mapping (VSM) across the supply chain flow — from material receiving, planning, manufacturing, packing, warehousing, and dispatch — to identify losses, eliminate non-value-added activities, and improve overall business performance.

Your responsibilities

• Lead industrial engineering and operational excellence programs across manufacturing operations.

• Drive end-to-end Value Stream Mapping (VSM) initiatives across the full manufacturing and supply chain process flow.

• Analyze material flow, information flow, inventory levels, lead time, cycle time, and process bottlenecks to improve end-to-end operational efficiency.

• Develop future-state VSM roadmaps and lead implementation of improvement actions across functions.

• Lead line balancing, labor optimization, workflow improvement, and factory layout optimization initiatives.

• Conduct time studies, motion studies, work measurement, and manpower planning to establish labor standards and improve productivity.

• Analyze and improve OEE, downtime, changeover losses, waste, and operational constraints.

• Support digitalization and automation projects to improve manufacturing efficiency and data visibility.

• Partner closely with Production, Planning, Procurement, Logistics, Quality, Engineering, and EHS teams to optimize end-to-end value streams.

• Support new product introductions, line startup, capacity expansion, and factory transformation projects.

• Develop productivity dashboards, KPI tracking systems, and performance reporting mechanisms.

• Coach and develop site teams on Lean principles, VSM methodology, and continuous improvement tools.

• Ensure all initiatives comply with EHS, GMP, quality, and company compliance standards.

The experience we're looking for

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline.

• Experience in FMCG manufacturing, industrial engineering, or operational excellence roles.

• Strong experience in end-to-end Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Lean transformation programs.

• Minimum 3 years of leadership or people management experience.

• Proven experience in high-speed FMCG manufacturing and packing operations.

• Strong understanding of supply chain flow, manufacturing systems, and operational KPIs.

• Experience in productivity improvement, cost optimization, and factory transformation projects.

• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Experience using SAP, MES, Power BI, or manufacturing analytics tools preferred.

• Fluent English communication skills; local language preferred.

Key Competencies

• End-to-end systems thinking

• Strong analytical and data interpretation capability

• Lean and VSM expertise

• Cross-functional collaboration and influencing

• Leadership and change management

• Problem-solving and structured thinking

• Project and stakeholder management

• Continuous improvement mindset

KPIs

• End-to-end lead time reduction

• OEE improvement

• Labor productivity improvement

• Manufacturing cost reduction

• Waste and inventory reduction

• Changeover time reduction

• Capacity utilization improvement

• Value stream efficiency improvement

• Delivery of CI and savings projects

• Safety, quality, and compliance performance

Preferred Certifications

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt

• TPM certification

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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