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Global Performance Lead

Location: 

Lodz, Łódzkie, PL, 90-530

At Barry Callebaut, we are on a journey to transform the cocoa and chocolate industry. As the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, our actions truly shape the future of our industry. We are a business-to-business company, serving the entire food sector, from the cocoa bean to the finest chocolate product. We are a company with a purpose, we believe in doing well by doing good and reinvesting in the communities we operate. We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and our goal is to shape a sustainable cocoa and chocolate future. We are headquartered in Zurich, and have more than 12,000 passionate Employees working in more than 40 countries worldwide. We are very proud of who we are and what we do. And of course, we are always looking for talented people to help us have a positive impact on our industry and beyond!

About the role:
As a Global Performance Lead, you will support manufacturing teams across Barry Callebaut’s global network in delivering cost savings and performance improvements. Your role is to ensure that improvement initiatives are clearly identified, properly governed, and translated into measurable financial results.
Working closely with regional operations and finance teams, you will track progress against targets, highlight risks, and support teams in closing performance gaps. You will ensure that validated savings are accurately reflected in plant cost structures, creating transparency and accountability across the organization.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the heart of global manufacturing performance, partnering with senior leaders to drive sustainable, data-driven improvements across multiple regions.

 

Key responsibilities:

  • Manage and govern a global savings pipeline.
  • Support regions and sites in identifying and prioritizing high-impact improvement initiatives.
  • Implement and maintain standardized global governance frameworks for savings validation and tracking.
  • Monitor monthly performance against targets and proactively escalate delivery gaps.
  • Partner with Finance to ensure savings are reflected in plant cost structures (labor, energy, maintenance, waste).
  • Validate material yield and waste improvements and ensure financial impact is captured.
  • Provide clear, regular performance reporting by site and region to senior stakeholders.
  • Highlight underperformance and support the development of corrective and recovery plans.
  • Act as a key interface between global manufacturing, regional teams, and finance.
  • Facilitate best practice sharing and knowledge exchange across the global manufacturing network.

 

About you:

  • University degree in Engineering and/or MBA.
  • Minimum 10 years of operational experience in manufacturing (Production, Supply Chain, Maintenance), including CI roles.
  • Proven experience in plant or senior operational leadership roles.
  • Strong results orientation with a clear focus on delivering measurable savings.
  • Solid analytical and financial acumen, with the ability to link performance to cost structures.
  • Experience in governance, performance tracking, and project pipeline management.
  • Ability to influence and collaborate across global, multicultural environments.
  • Clear, confident communicator, comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders.
  • Structured, detail-oriented, and resilient under pressure.
  • Fluent in English, additional languages are an advantage.
  • Willingness to travel occasionally, up to 20% of working time.

 

We offer:

  • Employment on a regular basis in the sweetest company in the world.
  • Annual bonus based on your work results.
  • Lunch card to be used for groceries and restaurants.
  • Private medical care in Lux Med (basic package fully financed by BC).
  • Fit Profit sports card co-financed by BC.
  • PPE: we care about your future, and we save money for your retirement.
  • Cafeteria Program as a part of Social Fund.
  • Group life insurance.
  • Hybrid working model: min. 8 days in the office a month.
  • As part of our work-life balance culture, we can start work between 7 am and 10 am.
  • Free consultation with a lawyer once a quarter.
  • Chocolate! Yes, surprising but we have chocolate in the office, for Christmas, BC’s Birthday, and many other occasions during the year.
  • And if chocolate is still not enough, you can join one of our theme clubs, where together with other employees we develop our passions and interests.
  • Daily delivery of fresh fruits and veggies to the office.
  • You can purchase our sweet products with a special discount.
  • Relax zone in the office and plenty of options to choose from: PlayStation 5, football table, pool table, Ping-Pong, library, table games, and massage chairs.
  • Sport @work? Sure! We have treadmills and indoor exercise bikes with a laptop station.
  • We like to party as much as we like chocolate! We have integration budgets we can use for team events.
  • Forever Chocolate and Event Team: you can join them and have a real influence on social life in BC and CSR activities.

At Barry Callebaut, we are committed to Diversity & Inclusion. United by our strong values, we thrive on the diversity of who we are, where we come from, what we’ve experienced and how we think. We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where people can truly be themselves, grow to their full potential and feel they belong. #oneBC - Diverse People, Sustainable Growth.

If you want to learn more about Barry Callebaut, please find further information here.

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