Operations Manager

Operations Manager

Location: Wembley, London

Salary: Circa £55k - £60k plus excellent benefits

A large food manufacturing company are now looking for an Operations Manager top join their team.

Operations Manager – Overview

The company are currently looking for a Operations Manager with food packhouse experience to join their thriving team based in Wembley, London.

Working within Brand Management and Operational Excellence approach accountable to the senior leadership team to shape and develop a multi-site production capability, enabling ongoing growth in quality, profitability, efficiency and compliance. Core emphasis will focus on developing a cohesive, professionally focused team with the capability to deliver improved cost, delivery and productivity in excess of customer expectations and business KPI's. You would also be expected to gain personal credibility from and be able to influence all internal and external stakeholders.

With full end2end production and warehouse responsibility for operational and quality management, efficiency and effectiveness, responsibilities encompass Compliance, Quality Delivery, Production, Warehousing, Facilities & Engineering, Stock Management, Transport & Customer Logistics, Health & Safety, Site Hygiene.

Working collaboratively with cross functional teams within depot and across multi sites to ensure creating best practice .to consistently deliver basic processes, work together, focused on what we need to win.

Operations Manager - job requirements:

The ideal candidate must come from the food manufacturing industry as a Operations Manager You will also have the following skills, qualifications and experience:

Hold a relevant qualification such as Business Management, MBA or food science related.

Hold a Food Safety / Hygiene Qualification such as HACCP or Level 3 in food hygiene

Experience with BRC

Operations Manager – Experience

* A self-motivated team manager with all round operations, quality, compliance management background gained in short shelf life, chilled food processing environment over at least 5 years

* An excellent communicator and people manager with the drive and strength of character to build and sustain a cohesive team, leading by example and encouraging success while putting health, safety and continuous improvement, front and centre of everything that you do.

* Capable of identifying, prioritising and delegating operational activities maximising available resources ensuring effective management of work load.

* A focused and disciplined leader well versed in the day to day demands of running a retail ready food manufacturing site, with the capability to implement depot strategy and goals.

* Capable of and demonstrating a proven track record in, driving CI activities across food manufacturing sites.

* Experienced Auditor to leading BRC & Customer Audits including hosting customer visits.

* Meticulous in handling data and information to generate reports analyzing trends and rhythm.

For more information please call Paul Gorton on (phone number removed).

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