Maintenance Excellence Deployment Manager

The Role

Schedule: Full Time, Remote

Location: Poland, United Kingdom, Netherlands

Travel: 50%

Are you ready to lead and inspire change across a global operations network? As the Maintenance Excellence Deployment Manager, you’ll drive the development and execution of cutting-edge asset care strategies that maximize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across Imperial Brands factories worldwide. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of maintenance practices, deploy innovative technologies, and lead transformative programs that enhance machine availability and operational excellence.

You’ll champion the implementation of autonomous, preventive, and predictive maintenance initiatives, working closely with diverse teams and stakeholders to deliver impactful improvements. Your strategic vision and leadership will play a key role in aligning our asset care strategies with the organization’s long-term goals.

Principle Accountabilities

• Develop and execute forward-thinking asset care strategies that align with business goals and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with regional teams and global stakeholders to ensure seamless implementation of asset care initiatives across multiple locations.
• Define and track KPIs to measure the success of maintenance programs and identify areas for optimization.
• Identify and integrate emerging technologies to enhance maintenance processes, including predictive analytics and automation.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by sharing knowledge and driving process optimization across the asset care network.
• Proactively identify risks to asset reliability and implement strategic maintenance solutions to mitigate them.

Skills and Experience Required

• Proven experience in developing and deploying global maintenance strategies within complex manufacturing environments.
• Expertise in autonomous, preventive, and predictive maintenance practices.
• A track record of successfully leading large-scale change initiatives across diverse teams and geographies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills to inspire cross-functional collaboration.
• The ability to drive technological innovation and process automation to deliver measurable improvements.
• Fluency in English is essential

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and many extras including a great pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement and hybrid/flexible working opportunities as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.