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Operations Director
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Company
This is a standout opportunity to join AB Sports Nutrition, a high-growth, manufacturing-led omnichannel consumer business operating in a fast-moving, highly dynamic category. Home to leading brands including High5 and Reflex Nutrition, the business is scaling rapidly - combining strong in-house manufacturing capability with an expanding international footprint. With a clear ambition to double in size over the next 2–3 years, backed by bold plans for innovation international expansion, this is a business with real momentum, and even bigger ambition.
Role
The Operations Director is a pivotal leadership role at the heart of that growth. Reporting to the Managing Director and sitting on the Senior Leadership Team, you will own and evolve the end-to-end supply chain, ensuring it can scale at pace while maintaining control, agility and performance.
You will lead across procurement, manufacturing, planning, logistics, technical and customer operations, driving alignment between supply chain capability and commercial goals. From optimising in-house manufacturing and supplier strategy through to strengthening planning, forecasting and logistics networks, this is a role that blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution. Alongside day-to-day performance, you will drive key transformation initiatives, enhancing systems, improving processes and embedding scalable ways of working, while maintaining best-in-class standards across safety, quality and compliance.
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You will require previous experience of managing a manufacturing facility in FMCG/CPG
You will bring strong CPG/FMCG experience, ideally from a high-growth or scale-up environment, and a track record of leading end-to-end supply chain functions within manufacturing-led, consumer businesses.
Experience in an operational/site/plant leadership role is essential.
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Equally comfortable at a strategic level and close to the operation, you thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments. You are confident working with manual, Excel-driven planning environments, but more importantly, you know how to improve them pragmatically bringing structure, visibility and scalability without overcomplicating.
Your style is low ego, high impact. You bring a challenger mindset, push for better, and deliver. Highly commercial, resilient and solutions-focused, you cut through complexity, move at pace and build followership across both leadership and operational teams.
Why Join
This is a career-defining opportunity to shape and scale the supply chain of a business with serious ambition. You will play a central role in doubling the business over the next 2 - 3 years, driving the capability required to support rapid growth, disruptive innovation and expanding international reach.
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