Site Manager Tusker at Diageo

Purpose of the role

The Site Manager provides overall leadership and accountability for site performance, delivering business objectives through the execution of strategic plans, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives. This role leads cross-functional teams to ensure the safe, efficient, and sustainable production of beer, RTDs, ANADS, ciders, and Ready-to-Serve brands, while achieving safety, quality, cost, service, and sustainability targets.

As the senior site leader, the Site Manager drives a high-performance culture through strong people leadership, capability development, succession planning, and employee engagement. The role champions world-class Asset Care Management, ensuring optimal asset reliability, maintenance excellence, and effective capital investment to support productivity, risk reduction, and business continuity.

Through visible leadership, performance management, and stakeholder engagement, the Site Manager leads the Manufacturing Excellence strategy, delivers innovation and growth initiatives, and ensures the long-term success of the site.

Key accountabilities

Lead Safety, Quality & Compliance

Ensure compliance with Food Safety, Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental standards.

Foster a culture that protects people, products, assets, and business reputation.

Deliver Site Performance & Results

Develop and execute site strategy and operating plans to achieve business objectives.

Deliver targets across Safety, Quality, Cost, Service, OEE, Productivity, Water, Energy, and Waste.

Lead & Develop People

Build a high-performance culture through leadership, talent development, succession planning, and employee engagement.

Strengthen organizational capability to meet current and future business needs.

Drive Asset Care & Capex Delivery

Lead asset care strategies to maximize reliability, availability, and performance.

Oversee maintenance excellence, equipment lifecycle management, and capital investment to support growth and business continuity.

Drive Manufacturing Excellence

Lead implementation of the Manufacturing Excellence (EISC) strategy.

Drive continuous improvement, productivity, operational excellence, and sustainable value creation.

Qualifications:

Degree preferably in Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain or other Science / Technical degree

Master Brewer, International Brewing and Distilling (IBD), Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Asset Care Pillar Certification, Lean Six Sigma, Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent is preferrable

Master of Business Administration as an added advantage

Skills & Experience:

Minimum 10 years broad manufacturing experience in a senior role within a manufacturing set up leading large teams to deliver results

Strong financial and business acumen with experience managing budgets, productivity programs, and capital investments

Proven experience leading large operations and delivering results across safety, quality, cost, service, and productivity metrics

A combination of strong functional expertise with people leadership, coaching, and talent development coupled with change management experience.

Strong technical and industry standard systems knowledge and experience

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