Recruiting Role

**Date**:May 22, 2024

**Location**: Como-Tavernola (CO), IT

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

© 2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.

**Job Purpose**:
Oversees the manufacturing of products according to specifications

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Plans, coordinates and controls production relatived activities (products, including resins) at the site to meet objectives and budgets with regard to quality, cost and service.
- Contributes to successful product and volume reallocations.
- Co-develops and executes plans related to improving quality, costs, HSE and service in conjunction with the Site Management Team.
- Partecipates in the definition of investments for production related activities and equipment.
- Works with Rd&I to enable New product Initiative, of which product responsibility is accepted from RD&I after three successful batches.
- Calls-off all required non -product related resources (Site operation Consumable & Service and real estate including facilities).
- Leads and ensures Daily Operational Review are conducted effectively and day-to-Day problems are solved and contained.
- Enables and contributes to the implementation of CI/ALPS initiatives.
- Is familiar and comlies with all the applicable corporate as well as site and laboratory policies/procedures with regard to personal conduct, HSE and Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs (PSRA) standards.

**Key Activities**:

- Inspires commitment to Akzo Nobel’s purpose, vision, strategy, core principles, values and leadership behaviors.
- Acts as an ambassador and creates and open environment in which the team as a whole and its members individually can perform at their best.
- Stimulates, manages and follows through on employee engagement and builds on the workforce to reflect the societies and markets in which we do business (D&I).
- Ensures that job profiles are in place, sets objectives for team members, reviews development and provides clear, open and constructive feedback on performance combined with the appropriate actions.
- Strengthens the talent pipeline by developing talent and regularly assesses and discusses talent and Internal movement. Continuously monitors and evaluates retention risk.
- Ensures reporting line is fully informed and acts in line with HSE and Compliance regulations.
- Manages and plans relevant budget and proactively manages costs.
- Reports on progress on a continuous base.

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Technical knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of legal requirements and corporate or BU standards for Asset Integrity Management
- Organizational awareness
- Ability to make his own judgements, either based on own knowledge or by consulting others
- Acknowledging the limits of own knowledge
- Perseverance
- Excellent persuasion and Influencing skills
- Drive for results
- Decision making
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- Consulting the sites management systems
- Reporting skills
- Leadership
- Basic knowledge relating to health and safety matters under the current Italian legislation
- ensures that all the Akzo Nobel directives (Process Safety Management) and Local regulations, are applied and met.
- Ensures that all the LSR (Life Saving rules) are applied and met.

**Education**:

- Technical/Chemicals Engineering degree
- English is a must as position would exposed to international contact and English info exchange
- Italian native language
- MS Office knowledge is required (Excel, Power Point and Outlook)

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 40078