Position Snapshot

Location: Rhodes, Sydney
Duration: Full time, permanent
10+ years’ experience in a similar role

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Project Management to join the Technical & Production team in Nestlé headquarters in Rhodes, Sydney. 

This role will lead and manage market capex/investment projects by coordinating stakeholders from project initiation to start-up, ensuring sustained performance. Focus on delivering capabilities that support business goals such as consumer satisfaction, compliance excellence, and competitive advantage, while overseeing a cross-functional team to achieve expected returns on investment through flawless execution.

A day in the life…

Reporting to the Chief Engineer, Oceania and delivering planned objectives in the Technical & Production (T&P) Engineering strategy, key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Define the project scope, success criteria, and milestone deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. 
• Build the investment project charter. Ensure available standards and best practices, as well as understanding of current category loss tree are revised as part of the project planning.
• Execute the basic and detailed design of the project based on Nestlé Corporate Business Principles, Nestlé standards, local regulations.
• Lead VSED activity and coordinate the preparation of supply chain concept. Support the Development of an Operation Start-up Plan to ensure a Vertical Start-up can be achieved. 
• Ensure the required design reviews are effective and collaborative to gain final alignment on the basic design.
• Lead the team and coordinate the contribution of all stakeholders to ensure the project implemented in accordance with the defined timing, cost and quality.
• Manage the required interactions outside of Nestlé to ensure that the external resources are available. Manage the procurement activities.
• Complete a smooth handover to operations after the qualification and verification of the installation.
• Support the preparation and distribution of the project documentation.
• Define the project change management plans. Determine the need for change requests, and either approve or reject changes as authorised.
• Ensure that the investment project charter has been fulfilled and that the project scope is achieved within the agreed cost and timing.
• Be the market project team leader, meaning integrating, motivating, feed backing, coaching, developing, managing and evaluating team members.

What will make you successful

• Joining a collaborative team of specialists, you will be a strong leader with a drive to deliver quality outcomes with efficiency and with a passion for continuous process improvement. 
• 10 years’ experience in an international project environment context within which, projects were defined and budgeted, assessed and implemented (entire project lifecycle).
• Managing Capital Investment projects in food industry. 
• Experience in behaviour-based safety application, factory operations and leading start-up operations.
• Participation in an Early Management, cleaning and hygienic engineering workshops.
• Preparation of a major CAPEX project submission and Project planning (as per PMI definition).
• Strong leadership and people management skills; experienced in leading technical, multicultural teams and contractors.
• Experience managing people development (performance management, coaching, competences training, career and succession planning, recruitment and development).
• Ability of Self-Management following defined KPIs/Objectives, and proactively tracking them

Applicants will be required to undergo pre-employment checks prior to appointment to this role.

Applicants must have full Australian working rights  

Benefits

You will have the chance to work with an outstanding and highly engaged team, build and grow your career with an inclusive, global FMCG leader.

In addition, we offer:

• Varied career experiences and personalised development support
• Wellbeing benefits including vaccinations and health insurance discounts.
• Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and program
• Paid parental and partner leave.
• Purchase Leave Scheme
• Volunteering leave, Sports leave, Emergency Services leave.
• Discounted Nestlé products

Our Story

• Nestlé enjoys a reputation as one of the world’s largest FMCG companies and a leader in nutrition, health and wellness. Our inclusive and high-performance culture is a testament to the great training, development, rewards and recognition we extend to every member of our 5000-strong Oceania workforce.
• You can realise your full potential at Nestlé, working among the leading teams in nutrition, health and wellness. As part of a global network, you can use your skills to influence others and make a positive impact where you own a piece of the action. 
• At Nestlé, you will work in a supportive environment where your ideas and points of view will be championed by a collaborative team. Together, we will drive the strength of our brands, the quality of our products, and the future of our business. 
• At Nestlé, you can make a difference to millions of lives, every single day. As a large, global company that’s driven by purpose, you and your team can add your piece of legacy of creating a better, healthier future. 
• In return you will have the chance to work with an outstanding team, and build and grow your career with an inclusive, global FMCG leader.
• Nestlé Oceania supports a culture of diversity and inclusion in all that we do. Take a look at Careers at Nestlé Australia | Nestlé Australia (nestle.com.au) to see some of the ways we live and practice this every day in our workplace.
• For more information please visit our website Nestlé Australia Home | Nestlé Australia (nestle.com.au) or Our LinkedIn page http://www.linkedin.com/company/nestle-s-a-

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