What Will This Role Achieve?

A pivotal role reporting into the site Factory General Manager and forming part of the site Leadership Team, ensuring customer demand and supply are kept in balance in the short, medium, and long term while also ensuring seamless management of inbound and outbound to and from site.

The role is multi-faceted, and you will provide strategic leadership to the site as well as manage both analytically and operationally.

What Will Be Your Key Deliverables?

Leadership of Warehouse

• Lead departmental safety improvement plan through area ownership, accountability, and behavioral change program
• Act as a role model to always ensure the site H&S policy is implemented and followed and to encourage the importance of being mindful of potential hazards and ensuring a behavioral safety culture is developed and sustained on site.
• Accountable for delivering departmental quality improvement plan achieving good housekeeping standards and audit (including retailer) program
• Accountable for mentoring, developing, and leading team members to deliver continuously improving operating performance
• Manage the design and delivery of Manufacturing Prime, Overhead, and Operational budgets
• Responsible for developing and delivering area productivity program, offsetting inflation, and achieving a departmental cost reduction
• Responsible for ensuring that standard methodology is shared between Pladis sites and implemented on the own site
• Facilitate the creation of a dynamic performance-oriented culture with aligned and motivated people, ensuring that recognition and financial rewards are clearly linked to measurable performance at all levels
• Build a performance climate where people expect to be held accountable for delivery of their commitments
• Responsible for the motivation of your team, for leading, mentoring, and performance management, to ensure skill and proficiency levels are maintained
• Ensure that all manufacturing metrics are well defined, understood by all, and achieved

Leadership of Planning / MRP Team

• Delivery of strategic labor plans while always responding to fluctuating customer demand, ensuring optimal labor cost performance (Prime Cost Variance - PCV)
• Key interface between site and central S&OP function, ensuring production plans can be operationalized and CTP achieved
• Strive for the perfect balance between labor costs and meeting our demand forecast to achieve great customer service (ISL)
• Working closely with the central S&OP team to produce the Constrained Production Plan which should be communicated effectively
• Overall responsibility for planning inbound & outbound materials activity and the management thereof
• Build a performance climate where people expect to be held accountable for delivery of their commitments
• Responsible for the motivation of your team, for leading, mentoring, and performance management, to ensure skill and proficiency levels are maintained
• Ensure that all manufacturing metrics are well defined, understood by all, and achieved

Key Part of the ALT (Aintree Leadership Team)

• Critical role supporting the site FGM with Management Information coordinating the site operational scorecard
• Assuming leadership of key site-wide activities as deemed vital, i.e., that may be broader than own function and involve leading other members of the site leadership team ensuring teamwork, leadership, and influence

What Do You Need for This Role?

Essential

• Manufacturing and warehousing experience
• Leading a team in a change environment
• Experience of working in a unionized environment
• Experience of working in a cross-functional team
• Experience of performance management of a large team
• Strong communicator
• The ability to deliver multiple projects on time and in full
• In-depth OU and OE understanding and demonstrable improvement of losses

Desirable

• Experience of operating in a FMCG organization
• Project Management skills
• Specific experience of handling continuous improvement processes
• Previous budget management experience
• Excellence plan implementation
• IOSH Managing Safely
• Food Safety Level 3
• Degree qualified

Our Values

• Purpose led – We’re energized and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite
• Agile – We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers
• Positive – We’re highly motivated, optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better
• Resilient – We’re persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn, and move forward
• Collaborative – We gain strength from operating as one Pladis, winning and succeeding together.

Best Mix of Ingredients

Pladis is an equal opportunities employer, like every great recipe we’re a thoughtful mix. A happy and inclusive place to work that’s as diverse as our consumers and the communities we support, live, and work in, all around the world. Where every voice is heard, and difference is celebrated. Where fresh perspectives and new ideas help us grow and thrive.

Pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.

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We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.