Are you an experienced operational leader within a high-quality food manufacturing environment?
Do you have extensive experience in chilled, short shelf-life food manufacturing?
Would you like to join a business that values its people and looks to develop in house talent to unlock potential?
MacGregor Black are partnering with a food manufacturing business on the search for a General Manager. This is a perm role based in Yorkshire.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide clear manufacturing leadership that drives culture and efficiency improvements.
* Develop and lead the implementation of change management initiatives, whilst leading the SLT to play its key part in the delivery excellence, impacting the wider business.
* Define and gain agreement for all budgets and forecasts, ensuring your sites delivers / beats its overall financial commitments.
* Responsibility for operational performance.
* Provide clear manufacturing objectives, vision, and leadership to the site.
* Accountable for the ongoing delivery of a strong set of KPI results for the site, including cost, safety, service, quality, gross losses and absenteeism.
* Define and gain agreement for all budgets and forecasts, ensuring the Site delivers / beats its overall financial commitments.
* Ensure the Site has appropriate processes and systems in place to drive best practice manufacturing standards with a focus on developing and embedding LEAN manufacturing.
What are we looking for?
* Successful track record of delivery in previous team leadership roles is essential.
* Experience of leading cross functional teams in the consumer sector with experience of high-speed production.
* Exposure to a number of different functions and evidence of being able to apply knowledge in other areas.
* Commercially astute with the ability to see the broader business context gained through experience of working with commercial functions.
* Strong influencing and communication skills to deliver results through others.
* Commercially astute with the ability to see the broader business context gained through experience of working with commercial functions.
* Strong influencing and communication skills to deliver results through others.
* Proven track record in developing people and teams to create high performance.
Salary – circa £125k + package
Please contact Rob Blackburn today for further information.