Operational Excellence Manager - East Kilbride - #2181931

Make an impact in ways that matter.

Join a business built on trusted brands, great people and teamwork, where care and fresh ideas help keep things moving. Here, your contribution helps serve our customers, support our operations and enable our teams to do their best work.

You’ll be encouraged to bring your strengths, supported to grow, and welcomed into a team where we make a meaningful difference together.

Operational Excellence Manager – East Kilbride

Permanent

Structured career development + Annual performance related pay bonus and pay reviews + Private Medical Insurance + Share scheme + Competitive pension contributions + Range of flexible benefits and Corporate discounts, holiday buy/sell scheme, optional health care and life assurance + Free parking and EV charging + Free hot and cold drinks and subsidised canteen + Excellent parental benefits

What you become part of:

Join one of the most dynamic manufacturing operations in Great Britain.

Our East Kilbride site produces around 33 million cases of drinks every year across four high-performing production lines, including two glass and two PET bottling lines. It is also the only site in Great Britain producing Appletiser in glass, making it a unique place to develop expertise within a world-class manufacturing environment.

As part of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, you'll be joining a business that invests in its people, technology, and future. Whether you're looking to broaden your leadership experience, develop operational excellence capability or drive transformation at scale, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact within a market-leading manufacturing business.

Reporting directly to the Site Director, you'll play a key role in shaping site performance, embedding a culture of continuous improvement and supporting East Kilbride's operational excellence journey.

What to expect:

As Operational Excellence Manager, you'll lead the deployment and maturity of the CCEP Operational Excellence framework, helping to deliver sustainable improvements across safety, quality, service, sustainability, cost, and people performance.

Working closely with site leadership and cross-functional teams, you'll drive continuous improvement initiatives, develop capability across the business and ensure Operational Excellence principles are fully embedded into day-to-day operations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and delivering the site's Operational Excellence roadmap, supporting progression through the CCEP maturity framework
• Conducting gap assessments and translating findings into actionable improvement plans
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing, engineering and support functions
• Using data and performance insights to identify, prioritise and deliver improvement opportunities
• Managing and developing the Continuous Improvement team, building capability and promoting a high-performance culture
• Overseeing the site's improvement pipeline and ensuring projects deliver measurable business benefits
• Auditing frontline routines and coaching leaders to strengthen standards, problem-solving and accountability
• Supporting autonomous maintenance, reliability and productivity improvement activities
• Facilitating improvement workshops and coaching teams through structured problem-solving methodologies
• Reviewing capability requirements and supporting learning and development plans to strengthen operational performance
• Partnering with operational leaders to prioritise and deploy technical resources in support of key improvement initiatives

This is a highly influential role, providing the opportunity to work across all areas of the site while helping shape the future performance and capability of the operation.

Skills & Essentials:

To be successful in this role, you'll bring:

• A degree relevant to FMCG, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Proven experience leading operational excellence, continuous improvement or transformation programmes within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of recognised improvement methodologies such as TPM, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma or similar frameworks.
• Experience implementing performance improvement initiatives and delivering measurable operational results.
• The ability to analyse complex data and translate insights into practical actions.
• Experience coaching and developing teams to adopt continuous improvement principles and behaviours.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and a data-driven approach.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to engage and influence across multiple functions.
• A passion for coaching, developing capability and driving continuous improvement.
• If you're looking for an opportunity to influence site-wide performance, develop organisational capability and play a leading role in shaping the future of one of our key manufacturing sites, we'd love to hear from you.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), with 39,000 people serving 4 million customers across 31 markets. We combine the scale of a large multinational business with expert local knowledge of the customers and communities we serve, investing, employing, manufacturing and distributing locally.

At CCEP, we welcome people from all backgrounds and value the experiences and perspectives they bring. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves, feel respected and thrive. This commitment is reflected in our recognition as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute and as a Di