About IT at Nestlé

We are a team of IT professionals from diverse cultures, genders and age groups in the ecosystem of world’s largest food and beverage Group company. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé’s digital challenges with our consumers, customers and employees. 

We have exciting positions in this ecosystem of operations currently to be hosted in Bangalore, which works alongside our Regional IT Hub partners in Sydney and Global IT hubs to provide technology services for Asia, Oceania and Africa (AOA). This set up will design, implement and maintain IT solutions and sharpen Nestlé’s focus in the growing areas of digital, analytics and innovation to support changing customer, consumer and shopper focus. 

When you join this team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across local and global Nestlé teams and external partners to deliver innovative technologies that create tangible business value. Diversity brings fresh and innovative thinking to how we approach new and existing challenges while embracing different cultures, genders, sexual orientation, abilities and flexible ways of working. 

Position Snapshot

•    Organization: Nestlé Global Services India, a Division of Nestlé R&D, India 
•    Hosted at: Bengaluru, India
•    Global Grade: H
•    Fluent English 
 

Position Summary

Ensure a successful roll out of ISIT Labour Planning Solution across the Zone AOA, according to the GLOBE T&P OMP and Functional Roadmap of Zone.

Active participation within the project team within the functional network (GFN) to support the functional end to end solution requirements. Act as a  reference for the specific area of expertise (Labour Planning Optimisation) for T&P.

Gather and evaluate functional requirements, write functional specifications, coordinate onshore and offshore developers, test scenarios and build prototypes for the Manufacturing projects and initiatives &troubleshoot issues 

To work closely with the markets & help deliver a short, medium and long term labour planning process  to maximise business performance, with a positive impact to efficiency, flexibility  optimal costs and improvement in Labour Productivity.
 

A day in the life of...

•    Collaborate with Vendor and technical teams to roll out the Labour Planning Optimisation solution Projects across Zone AOA                
•    Actively drive and coach markets to anticipate and to continuously improve Solution usage to bring TDC savings within the market              
•    Train and guide support team to efficiently resolve ticket issues, to drive optimization and simplification of support organization to drive out waste         
•    Understand local labour management and rules to ensure the smoothest introduction of system is completed on time                
•    Participates in market project teams for business process improvement projects and/or Business Requirements                
•    Be a strong improvement proposal force into our internal and external procedures and ways of working                
•    Supports market testing, performs specification, configuration & support activities and utilizing offshore services as directed

What will make you successful

1. Functional experience in Shift crewing, Labour standards , variable labour to run manufacturing processes and good understanding of Operational Planning 
2. Basic Experience with SAP Solutions:  APO and HR systems,  SAP - good knowledge of SAP Mfg module including Planning .
3. Business Excellence (Continuous Improvement) experience in  an Operations environment
5. Should be able to understand applications like time management systems (Kronos)and labour planning solutions etc 
6.Should understand manufacturing operations ( FMCG ) , Production planning, shift scheduling , working hours compliance and maintenance plans, skillsets required for Job functions 
7. Understanding of labour laws in Zone AOA, and compliance to local regulations.
8. Knowledge of Nestlé best practices for  labour management, and good understanding of Industrial relations 
9.  E2E process understanding of factory processes
10.Understand system landscape for Labour optimization solution 
11. Technical expertise in Manufacturing and HR and basic understanding of cross-functional integration:  issues / impacts
12. Exposure to NCE practices and methodologies, TPM process and tools, LEAN Thinking