Investment Performance Manager

Position Snapshot

Location: Vevey, Switzerland (working from other location could be considered according to business needs)
Company: Societé des Produits Nestlé
Act. Rate: Full-Time
Type of contract: Permanent contract

What we offer at Nestlé

• Flexible combination of office-based and remote work. Please talk to us during the recruitment process about what flexibility could look like for you!
• Genuine opportunities for career and personal development through mentoring, developing, upskilling, and reskilling
• Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces to connect, collaborate, celebrate, and create
• Dynamic, diverse, and inclusive international working environment
• Attractive additional advantages such as “dogs at work”, mobility plan and more

Position Summary

As an “Investment Performance Manager”, you will be responsible for providing professional and functional leadership in Capital Investment Project Management across categories and geographies. This role entails developing and implementing standards, methodologies and tools to ensure the successful and efficient delivery of Capital Investment Projects (CAPEX projects), meeting the organizations business objectives.
Additionally, you will lead the competence development process across the engineering disciplines ensuring that the competency frameworks reflect the skills necessary to ensure the engineering community supports delivery of the businesses objectives.

A Day in the Life of a Investment Performance Manager

• Own the Capital Investment Management workflow and related standards
• Lead the development and deployment of methodologies, tools and digital solutions to optimize project design and project management and enable safety and food safety by design, fast time to value, competitive costs and successful execution
• Provide general engineering insight and support for the CAPEX projects, ensuring adherence to corporate standards and confirming key enablers for a successful project are in place
• Lead and facilitate competence development programs aimed at empowering Project Managers to autonomously and successfully deliver CAPEX projects
• Ensure that the needs of engineering and its functional competencies are identified and that training is oriented to meet these needs and allows closure of competency gaps
• Manage the review, creation and deployment of new ways to disseminate engineering knowledge to the Markets, using more cost effective and modern channels
• Lead corporate engineering communication plan

What will make you successful

• Extensive proven experience in a technical field, with high exposure to project management, preferably in food manufacturing or consumer goods industry
• Solid experience in managing CAPEX projects, as project leader or within a multidisciplinary project team, including preparation of the investment budgets and participation in preparing business plans
• Previous experience as line manager, delivering results through others with highly developed communication skills
• Passionate to ensure that people and expertise are developed and maintained through engaging programs
• Advanced strategy thinking skills, curious
• Fluent in English

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
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