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Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota's Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership
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Marvin Cooke is the EVP – Manufacturing for Toyota Motor Europe.
Based in Brussels, Marvin oversees all of Toyota’s European Manufacturing Companies, Production Engineering, Logistics, the Toyota Production System and the Production Control functions.
Marvin joined Toyota Manufacturing in the UK as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1991 and has held numerous management posts of increasing seniority throughout Europe. Today Mavin is leading Toyota’s European Manufacturing team along the journey from being an Automobile Company to becoming a Mobility Company.
He will also be a member of the speaker faculty of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit next week in Barcelona speaking about, "A Lean Approach to Carbon Neutrality," but first we get to ask him a few questions on the bluEPrint.
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Marvin joined Toyota Manufacturing in the UK as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1991 and held numerous management posts progressing to Director of Production Operations in 2008. He spent a year as Director of Production Engineering at Toyota Motor Europe in Brussels during 2011 returning to Toyota Manufacturing UK as Deputy Managing Director of Vehicle Manufacturing in January 2012. Marvin went on to spend 2 and a half years as Production Vice President at Toyota, Peugeot, Citroen Automobile in Czech Republic and returned to Toyota Manufacturing UK in 2017 as Managing Director.
Marvin assumed the position as Toyota Motor Europe’s Senior Vice President of Manufacturing in January 2020 and in addition, from October 1st, 2020, he was temporarily appointed President of TMMF. As of January 2021, Marvin was promoted to his current position as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing in TME.
Marvin started his career as an engineering apprentice at Pirelli Tyre Company. During his apprenticeship he studied at Burton & South Derbyshire College and graduated with an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nottingham Trent University. After his graduation, he worked as an engineer for Pirelli at both Burton-on-Trent and Carlisle plants. Immediately before joining Toyota, Marvin worked as a consultant engineer within the food and drinks industry.
Marvin is married with two children.
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