April 2018

Operations Director for ambitious Food Manufacturing Business

The Role

Reporting to the MD, this role will drive the manufacturing capability of the organisation along with contributing to the commercial and wider business strategy

  • Location - East Midlands
  • Salary - Strong six figure base + strong bonus and benefits
  • Function - Operations
  • Business Sector - Food Manufacturing

Key responsibilities include:

  • Contributing to the strategy, direction, performance and governance of the business with a particular focus on delivering revenue and EBIT targets.
  • Delivery and refinement of a complex, highly strategic change programme across multiple sites.
  • Demonstrating strong leadership skills, ensuring that the team have measurable objectives, regular reviews of performance and the opportunities to develop skills and careers leading to a culture of growth, high performance and continuous improvement.
  • Delivering an operational continuous improvement strategy and ensuring that all parts of the team are able to identify short and medium term action plans.
  • Working with the key stakeholders to build long-term strategic alliances that will enhance the commercial performance of the business.
  • Representing the business with key stakeholders, ensuring that key milestones are communicated and understood.
  • Leading and effectively delivering a Capital Expenditure program.

The Person

A passionate, intelligent manufacturing professional with the ability to manage the strategic challenges of a complex business along with the drive to deliver day-to-day operational objectives. Someone who can operate at all levels of the business and will integrate with the senior management team to form close working relationships.

Due to the nature of the role and opportunity longer term career progression. is expected.