Bacardi
Global Process Lead, Make Plant Maintenance
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OUR CULTURE
We share the passion and entrepreneurial flair of our founder and are guided by our three culture pillars - Fearless, Family, and Founders. They inspire our Primos to be the best they can be and drive us forward in all we do. But what does this mean?
- Being Fearless: means adopting an agile mindset, being comfortable trying new things, and taking risks. We are empowered to question, challenge, and innovate.
- Family: We treat each other, and our communities, like Family. Always.
- Founders: The spirit of entrepreneurship is at the heart of everything we do. We see the business as if it’s our own. We do the right thing for the business and we all take accountability for our work.
When you join Bacardi, you become part of our family and gain more than just a job.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
This role is the Global Process Lead (GPL) for Make, covering Manufacturing and Maintenance, reporting into the Global Process Owner for Make. As the GPL for Manufacturing and Maintenance, you will work within a broader Global Transformation Process. You will be the enterprise lead of Bacardi’s global Make and Maintenance processes, with a specific mandate to drive Maintenance Excellence and Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) across manufacturing operations. You will define, govern, and continuously improve Bacardi’s end-to-end Make and Maintenance process architecture, ensuring it is fit-for-purpose, standardized, scalable, and embedded into SAP S/4HANA. This role is critical to delivering reliable operations, asset performance, safety, quality, and cost competitiveness across Bacardi’s global manufacturing network.
About You
You are a senior manufacturing and maintenance leader with strong shop-floor credibility and a proven track record of embedding Maintenance Excellence and TPM as a way of working, not a program. You bring enterprise-level process ownership, effectively balancing global standardization with local realities while translating operational needs into SAP S/4HANA-enabled execution that delivers measurable improvements in reliability, safety, cost, and performance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Global Process Lead – Manufacturing & Maintenance
- Lead global Manufacturing & Maintenance process ownership, including preventive, predictive, reactive, calibration, refurbishment, and continuous improvement maintenance models.
- Own global process taxonomy (L1–L3) and governance for Manufacturing & Maintenance, ensuring clarity, consistency, and performance visibility.
- Guide fit-to-standard process design aligned with industry-leading manufacturing and TPM practices.
- Lead Manufacturing & Maintenance process design within the Transformation program, shaping the future-state operating model and digital ways of working across sites.
- Develop the Connected Frontline Worker (CFW) roadmap for Manufacturing & Maintenance, including role-based experiences, standard work digitization, and adoption across sites.
- Lead identification, prioritization, and delivery of high-value AI and advanced analytics use cases for the shop floor (e.g., predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, quality insights, loss intelligence).
- Partner with OT/IT/Digital teams to integrate SAP S/4HANA with shop floor systems (MES, CMMS/EAM, historians, IIoT platforms), enabling end-to-end visibility and decision-making.
- Set standards and guardrails for AI-enabled work execution on the shop floor, including human-in-the-loop decisioning, model performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
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Maintenance Excellence & TPM
- Lead the Operating Model development for global TPM strategy, embedding asset care, operator ownership, reliability engineering, and loss elimination.
- Design and govern end-to-end TPM processes, including:
- Autonomous Maintenance (AM)
- Planned / Preventive Maintenance (PM)
- Focused Improvement (FI)
- Asset & Equipment Lifecycle Management
- Early Equipment Management (EEM)
- Training & Capability Development
- Define global standards for:
- Asset criticality and prioritization
- Loss analysis and elimination
- Equipment condition monitoring and reliability centered maintenance (RCM)
- Preventive & predictive maintenance
- Maintenance KPIs and tiered performance management
- Ensure TPM processes are fully integrated with Make, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, and EHS processes.
- Partner with sites to transition from reactive to proactive maintenance cultures.
SAP S/4HANA Enablement
- Own Make and Maintenance business requirements for SAP S/4HANA (e.g., SAP PM, PPM, PP/DS integration).
- Partner with IT and system integrators to ensure:
- Clean master data structures
- Effective maintenance planning and execution flows
- Accurate performance and cost reporting
- Support design decisions, testing, deployment, and adoption across waves.
SKILLS
The skills and experience needed to create your legacy:
- Minimum 15 years’ experience in manufacturing and supply chain roles.
- Direct manufacturing management experience (e.g., Plant Manager, Operations Director, Engineering or Maintenance Leader).
- Proven leadership in Maintenance Excellence and TPM.
- Prefer, hands-on experience leading or supporting SAP S/4HANA implementations in manufacturing/maintenance environments.
- Experience operating in global, matrixed organizations.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end manufacturing and maintenance process architecture.
Manufacturing Leadership & Operational Credibility
- Experience with agile transformation methodologies.
- Leverage first-hand manufacturing leadership experience to ensure processes are practical, executable, and value-driven.
- Act as a trusted partner to Plant Directors, Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance leaders.
- Balance global standardization with local regulatory, safety, and operational realities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and implement cross-functional projects/programs.
- Proven experience deploying commercial process improvements.
- Strong change management and stakeholder engagement abilities at the executive level.
- Strategic thinker with excellent analytical, communication, and governance capabilities.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Share our founder’s passion and entrepreneurial flair:
- Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become.
- Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective, and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others.
- People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance.
- Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.
- Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with.
- Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment, and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn, and apply from experience.
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LEADERSHIP AGILITY
At Bacardi we care deeply about finding brilliant talent who can bring the following personal attributes to help elevate our 3Fs: Fearless, Family, Founder culture to the next level.
- Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become.
- Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective, and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others.
- People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance.
- Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.
- Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with.
- Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment, and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn, and apply from experience.
Disclaimer
Bacardi seeks talent from all backgrounds to bring diversity of thought, agility, and capability to our organization across the globe. We promote a working environment where all employees are treated and rewarded fairly. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination that adversely affects individuals or groups on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, and any other legally protected aspect of a person’s identity.
U.S. applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.
Perks of Working for Us
At Bacardi, we are committed to providing our Primos (employees) with a comprehensive Total Rewards package of compensation, benefits, incentives, allowances, well-being, and much more to meet the needs of themselves and their families. It goes beyond just Cash! The total rewards program is based on pay for performance, whereby the incentive programs are linked to company and individual performance.
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Compensation, Paid Time Off & Retirement:
- Competitive Pay Package
- Competitive Holiday/Paid Time Off, plus additional days offered (i.e., volunteer day, allowing you to give back to the community)
- Retirement/Pension Plan
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Health & Wellbeing:
- Medical, Critical Illness, and Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Best-in-class
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