The Oval Partnership
Operations Director
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About the Role
An opportunity to join a business that is a leader in its field. An Operations Director that has total site leadership experience is essential.
As a leader you will be flexible in style, decisive and collaborative, creating rhythm and routine that allows you to effectively delegate whilst keeping your finger on the pulse of business performance.
You must have operated within a fast-paced environment, have strong customer relationships and have demonstrable experience of leading multi-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- To be a role model for our delivering the vision, values and business results. Working with the Site Leadership Team and other key stakeholders to further develop and sustain the culture of the business.
- Develop and implement a site operational strategy to meet the goals of the business and to underpin the business level strategy. Continually review and adjust the strategy in line with internal and external changes. Undertake competitive benchmarking assessment to ensure site targets and capabilities are continually challenged.
- To lead and manage all site operational activities to deliver business objectives, goals and targets. Particular focus is required on business planning and strategy deployment whilst employing the principles and philosophies of operations excellence / lean manufacturing to ensure that the strategic goals are achieved and sustained.
- Lead the site operations team to ensure they are engaged and high performing. Build trust through the skilled application of people management processes and open two-way communication.
- Embrace people development, identifying those that want to develop their careers working on progression opportunities for them.
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In order to be considered for this role you must have experience of holding a senior-level role within an operational-biased function, successfully delivering significant change programmes within a group-led business, implementing cultural and system change.
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- To have operated with a leadership role and to demonstrate strong collaboration across a multi-functional team. Driving culture and engagement is a key aspect of the role, creating a positive and energetic environment to work within.
- You must be able to demonstrate commercial acumen and having the ability to understand and challenge the financial numbers.
This role is within the food manufacturing industry, please only get in contact if you have experience within this sector.
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