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- Operational Excellence: Ensure the seamless operation of all business departments, maintaining high efficiency, enhancing existing systems, and implementing innovative business performance strategies.
- Team Leadership: develop and where necessary enhance a talented and motivated team with the right culture, attitude, and capabilities, ensuring effective succession planning for long-term success.
- Fostering Communication: Promote open communication within the team, ensuring that improvement suggestions are met positively and achievements are celebrated.
- Team Engagement: foster a culture of visibility and collaboration, drive team buy-in by helping everyone understand the importance of each process step, fostering a ābest for businessā mindset.
- Commercial Relationship Management: Own and drive critical supplier liaison as required against business plans.
- Development & Training: Ensure robust succession planning and comprehensive training programs are in place to develop team capabilities and secure the company's future.
- Audit Readiness: Maintain audit readiness at all times, ensuring compliance with all standards and regulations.
- Asset Management: Keep the asset register up-to-date, ensuring accurate tracking of all company assets.
- Overall business performance reporting to company shareholders
- Evaluate and Harmonise all systems and departments together to ensure the company performs to maximum efficiency and continual improvement is sought and achieved by all personnel.
- Employee performance is monitored and development plans are in place, with any potential issues being proactively highlighted and addressed.
- Supplier performance and compliance is monitored and reported on.
- Preparation of monthly P&L management accounts, business performance reports and forecasts for MD.
- Framework and high value procurement of all food and non-food goods , ensuring the supplier package is best fit for the business.
- Maintain expected levels of profitability against the product matrix.
- Training and development of the management team to keep taking the business forward.
- Foster proactive and positive attitudes towards H&S for site, in conjunction with food safety.
- To sit on the Haccp team.
- Ensure all HR concerns remain up to date; employee contracts are current and the employee handbook is current.
- Remain Agile, with an approach of turning challenges into positive opportunities.
- Create a culture of team work within (and between) all departments with the overall objective remaining the target of delighting the customer.
- Ensure fiscal compliance around tax obligations.
- Ensuring Payroll and pensions are correct and paid on time.
- Demonstrable experience within a senior leadership role with a record of delivering growth and operational success
- Experience within Food & FMCG manufacturing, lean principles, and operational best practice.
- Knowledge of all areas of business operations including Purchasing, Sales, Manufacturing operations, Administration, Health and Safety and Finance.
- Strong Financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills with a demeanour to inspire and motivate teams.
- Commitment to Health & Safety, Quality, People Development and Cost Reduction.
- Growth mindset with proven ability to drive and achieve targets.
