Your Impact & Responsibilities
Your Impact
- Define and execute strategies and master plans for the capital investment pipeline across all production centers.
- Lead four specialized teams (Factory Development, Process Systems, Filling/Packaging and Factory Logistics) to develop and strengthen global equipment design standards.
- Shape the future of our manufacturing footprint, ensuring growth, efficiency, innovation, and sustainability.
- Develop a diverse pipeline of technical talent and future leaders, enhancing Beiersdorf’s engineering capabilities globally.
- Drive strong collaborations and set robust project management processes together with peers in the engineering and technology, finance, procurement, real estate, legal and other critical stakeholders.
Strategic Leadership & Governance:
- Report directly to the Global VP Supply Chain Technology & Engineering, serving as a lead member of the Global SCET function.
- Translate the global Supply Chain and SCET strategy into actionable engineering priorities, aligning teams and stakeholders toward a shared vision.
- Shape the long-term vision for Beiersdorf’s global production network, ensuring alignment with business strategy and future growth.
Investment & CapEx Management:
- Develop and execute 5-year Masterplans for each Production Center, ensuring a structured and future-ready investment approach.
- Oversee a €150-200M annual CapEx pipeline, prioritizing investments that drive growth, efficiency, capacity expansion, innovation, and sustainability.
- Ensure project delivery is On Time, In Full, and In Budget (OTIFIB), with designs that fulfill committed business objectives.
- Lead the financial steering of Return on Assets (ROA), ensuring optimal investment decisions with measurable impact.
- Deploys, maintains and improves global engineering processes and tools, ensuring excellence execution in the regions.
Manufacturing & Asset Development:
- Systematically identify investment needs across the global production network, addressing obsolescence, capacity expansion, innovation, and sustainability goals.
- Drive the development and implementation of global manufacturing initiatives, focusing on areas like productivity optimization and energy efficiency.
- Establish and enforce core design standards for utilities, compounding and filling/packing equipment, logistics solutions and factory design to ensure consistency, reliability, and performance excellence.
- Collaborate closely with the Real Estate function, which owns site construction and facility management standards.
Supplier & Ecosystem Management:
- Build and manage strategic supplier partnerships, working closely with Procurement to optimize costs, quality, and innovation.
- Ensure a robust global supplier network, fostering long-term collaborations that align with Beiersdorf’s production and sustainability ambitions.
Capability Building & Talent Development:
- Develop a strong and diverse talent pipeline of leaders and experts in Engineering and influence the development of teams within the SCET.
- Strengthen technical expertise across the manufacturing network by leading the Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) Communities.
- Design and operate the Global Engineering Academy, creating structured training programs to upskill engineering talent and foster innovation.
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field (mandatory).
- Master’s degree in engineering management, Operations, or MBA (preferred).
- +10 years of work experience in technical roles in manufacturing and investment projects.
- +5 years in senior leadership roles with regional/global scope.
- Proven record managing multi-million Euro/dollar engineering investments.
- Expertise in CAPEX planning, technology implementation, and sustainability initiatives.
- Experience in FMCG or high-volume manufacturing industries (preferred).
- Leadership: Proven ability to build, inspire, and lead cross-functional, multicultural teams while fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.
- TPM: Strong experience in leading Early Equipment Management (EEM) processes; experience with Preventive Maintenance (PM) is a plus.
- Project Management: Cross-functional and cross-border project delivery.
- Strategic: Data-driven decision-making and aligning strategies with organizational goals. Fluent in English (mandatory). German is a bonus.
At Beiersdorf, we want to help people feel good about their skin – and our commitment goes far beyond caring for skin. For 140 years, we have developed innovative skin and body care products for well-known brands such as NIVEA, Eucerin, La Prairie, Hansaplast, and Labello. We act according to our purpose, WE CARE BEYOND SKIN, and take responsibility for our consumers, our employees, the environment and society.
Behind every brand, every product and every accomplishment are our more than 20,000 employees. It is for them that we live a culture of inclusion, respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values – CARE, COURAGE, SIMPLICITY and TRUST. We embrace diversity by valuing the uniqueness of each individual and being committed to equal opportunities for all.
Beiersdorf is transforming its global production network to be more agile, sustainable, and competitive—anchored in strategic, forward-looking capital investments. To lead this transformation, we are seeking a Global Factory Investment Director, a key leadership role within our global engineering team.
Additional information
We embrace Diversity and Inclusion and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of race, gender, age, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation & gender identity, disability, cultural, ethnic or national origins. We would therefore kindly ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae with relevant references and certificates) and encourage you to upload your CV without a picture.
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