Group Global Continuous Improvement Manager – OPEX, UK
Operational Excellence Manager – OPEX CAS, UK
1 November 2015Manufacturing Strategy Director – EMEAI
15 July 2019Group Global Continuous Improvement Manager – OPEX, UK
August 2016 – July 2019 Greater London, United Kingdom
- Group level responsibility for the cost effective operation of 6 plants globally in India, China, Germany, UK, and USA.
- Leading industry 4.0 activities for the group and managing the investment of those.
- Providing coverage as a plant manager for the largest manufacturing plant in the group with 90M USD P&L
responsibility. - Achieved 5.2% COGS reduction YOY by managing and continuously improve manufacturing profit, variances, cost
per earned hour and standard costs to provide higher manufacturing margins for all plants of the group
contributing to 178M USD revenue. - Preparing annual budgets, profit and strategic plans for the group.
- Leading the activities for the vertical manufacturing integration, rooftop consolidations and M&A in order to
maximise net profit in the group. - Created business cases and programme managed major factory moves globally to best cost countries and
improve standard margin and operating profit without disruption on service levels and quality. - Developing strategic road-maps for operations and process improvements across key functions in the business
to improve EBITA and increase earnings per share for Eaton’s shareholders. - Monitoring costs and productivity across 6 different sites globally (India, China, Germany, USA, UK) and
delivered 5% year over year cost reduction on 82M COGS. - Managing the capital investment budgets for the group (>4M USD) and delivered CAPEX projects on time and
to budget for 3 consecutive years 2016, 2017, 2018 - Developing, coaching and mentoring employees in the use of Lean Six Sigma methodologies, certified 18 green
belts and 2 black belts in 24months.
Mike
Founder - Greek Manufacturing Forum