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The Productivity manager drives structured, value-led delivery of projects and operational excellence across Production and Supply Chain, enabling sustained improvements in safety, quality, capacity, cost, and performance. Acting as both a delivery leader and independent challenge, they ensure that projects and initiatives are well-defined, prioritised, and executed effectively, supported by robust governance, data-driven decision making, and strong cross-functional collaboration. The role is accountable for building and maintaining a medium- to long-term improvement pipeline, leading high-impact projects, and embedding operational excellence disciplines and management routines that improve execution capability and organisational maturity. Through strengthening operational rhythms and continuous improvement capability, the role helps ensure that Production and Supply Chain are aligned, resilient, and focused on delivering sustainable performance.
Job Responsibility:
Oversee the supply chain project and initiatives agenda and strategy, ensuring all have structured plans within each production and supply chain team
Identify project risks and respective blockers, and ensure mitigations are in place, coordinating and leading the project and initiative review cadences
Work with the cross functional teams to build and maintain a medium to long term rolling pipeline of projects and initiatives that deliver safety, quality, capacity and cost improvements in production and supply chain
Maintain and update capacity models on a regular basis to feed this pipeline and help inform business decision making
Act as an independent verifier of projects and initiatives proposed to ensure value can be unlocked for the business
Lead and deliver 3-4 significant projects annually, ideally cross-functional, to maximize efficiencies and reduce siloed operations
Drive projects from concept to completion, ensuring alignment with production and supply chain objectives and cross-functional collaboration
Define the forward plan for implementation of operational excellence throughout the site, building the knowledge of the operations support managers and a wider cohort of operational excellence champions
Support the deployment of operational excellence techniques throughout production and supply chain working with the cross functional teams to ensure understanding and adherence to these techniques
Ensure best practice techniques and relevant training are undertaken for yourself and others
Develop and coordinate cross-functional teams to support their understanding of how, what and where their data comes from including what it means and how they can use it
Support the cross-functional team with their development to ensure ownership of this data sits within the operational teams
Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure requirements are gathered effectively and efficiently, and that they are then translated into relevant and usable solutions and reporting methods
Own the daily, weekly and monthly management routines for production including the running of weekly and monthly meetings
Continue to evolve and develop these routines and structures as we continue to mature as an organisation
Support the wider supply chain in deployment of their operational routines
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field
Certification in Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent productivity methodologies preferred
Proven experience in productivity or project management roles, ideally within a supply chain or operational environment
Demonstrated success in managing capital budgets and delivering cross-functional productivity projects
Strong understanding of project management principles, risk assessment, and productivity metrics
Familiarity with budgeting and financial tracking in a project management context
Excellent leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Proficiency in project management tools and software for tracking productivity and budget adherence
Strong analytical skills for pipeline development and risk mitigation
Results-oriented and proactive, with a strategic mindset for driving productivity improvements
Collaborative, adaptable, and focused on cross-functional teamwork and continuous improvement
Detail-oriented and committed to building a culture of best practice and efficiency
Ability to work across teams and departments to foster collaboration and innovation
Flexibility to work with varying project timelines and manage competing priorities effectively
What we offer:
Bonus scheme
Pension enhancements up to 10%
4-week sabbatical every 5 years
Staff discount (50% off BrewDog Beers/Ciders, Wonderland Cocktails, BrewDog Merchandise, and Soft Drinks, plus 25% off all other menu items in our BrewDog Bars
discount on takeaway beer)
Additional holiday day each year (one additional day’s leave for every full year completed up to the 5th year)
Beer training (support through internationally-recognised Cicerone qualifications
pay more for each level passed)
Enhanced sick pay
Healthcare
Life assurance
High street retail discounts
Employee assistance programmes
Enhanced family friendly policies around maternity and paternity leave