General Manager

GENERAL MANAGER – Northern Bavaria

JOB DESCRIPTION

We relate our success directly to the strength of our management team. To continue operating at our high standards, we are seeking a dynamic leader with broad based experience and a track record of delivering growth in entrepreneurial environments to serve as the General Manager in our German manufacturing facility located in North Bavaria. You will be responsible for providing strategic day-to-day leadership, maintaining performance metrics, process and culture while ensuring quality, continuous improvement and operational excellence as a strategic partner with the corporate executive team. You will have previous success leading process improvement initiatives with the ability to significantly improve productivity. This role requires an acutely deadline-focused independent leader with proven skills in hiring, training and team building while working as an in the trench’s player/coach. You will be held responsible for the site P&L and overall leadership of the site of 40 employees.

Essential Functions

1. Manage day-to-day operations, assign performance goals and ensure their completion.
2. Establish operations and business strategy, goals, and annual objectives for the local business in alignment with the President/CEO to drive business growth and effectiveness.
3. Must be capable of translating objectives and needs into deliverable strategy to achieve business goals as well as ensure the value chain has the required materials to create a competitive advantage of the product portfolio.
4. Set and drive improvement in key metrics which drive the manufacturing, quality, operations, supply chain and service activities.
5. Develop and manage budgeting and budget execution. Define target and control procedures.
6. Provide leadership, counsel, and manage cross-functional teams as well as employees in direct chain of command, giving direction and defining objectives; serve as change agent.
7. Interact regularly with executive team and individual department heads to ensure that company’s operational priorities are aligned with total company direction.
8. Lead environmental, health and safety programs.
9. Materials and Inventory Management: Drives improvement projects with all peers: planners/buyers, sourcing/buyers, local operations and technical functions to maintain best in class inventory levels (incl. Inactive, Obsolete and Slow movers). Plans materials strategies to optimize planning and inventory. Measures forecast, analysis and reporting of weekly/monthly SIOP data in coordination with the Global SIOP leader, PDC Scheduler and Business Demand Planners.
10. Logistics and Warehouse Management: Manages logistics team to ensure all imports and exports for the site are promptly executed. Ensures correctness of data and paperwork for successful Intrastat monthly submission. Coaches warehouse supervisor on good warehouse keeping, equipment usage and maintenance.
11. Working across sites, determine the most effective use of plant capacity according to short and long-term forecasts. Ensure capacity is cost justifiable, sustainable, and makes the most efficient use of resources.
12. Develop and direct the management of the company’s remote fulfillment/distribution centers that will ensure fast order processing, accurate inventory control, proper and timely receipt/stocking of goods, cost-efficient shipping direct to customers and effective processing of returns.
13. Directs development of plans, guidelines, policies and processes, to ensure the achievement of quality targets.
14. Develops and leads implementation of organization projects and processes to ensure overall quality is continuously improving.
15. Directs collection and analysis of quality information from multiple sources to develop long-term quality strategy and programs.
16. Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing early in the design stage in order to build quality into the product design and manufacturing process.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree in business management or related field.
2. 10-15 years of related experience in supply chain and operations management in a manufacturing field. Medical field a plus as is Plastic Injection Moulding.
3. Passion for leading business to maximum productivity and efficiency.
4. Expert communicator with a strong ability to delegate responsibility and collaborate across a range of departments.
5. Experience overseeing business operations.

Preferred Education and Experience

1. MBA or master’s degree.
2. Related certifications commensurate with the role.

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