Operations Director

Bromsgrove

Salary £60,000-70,000 salary guideline

Benefits include £10,000 car or car allowance, 5% employer pension contribution and performance bonus usually worth £4,000-£5,000.

Operations Director job vacancy at a 50 headcount business with operations including logistics, warehouse, and some production manufacturing.  Operations Director responsibilities:

·Planning operations delivery on a daily, weekly and monthly basis meet customer expectations efficiently.  The Operations Director’s remit covers warehousing, logistics and production, and all of the related activities such as H&S, equipment, efficient layout and overheads.

·People management responsibilities include skills development, health and safety, disciplinaries, praise and recognition, staffing levels, and embedding good practice and new methods.

·The Operations Director will be part of the site leadership team and have responsibility for strategic planning around facilities, people, systems, equipment investment and supporting growth opportunities.

·Communication and influencing non-direct reportees will also be important.  For example, setting up and embedding commonly understood customer SLA’s with the sales team.  These SLA’s should be based on realistic operations capability and also deliver customer excellence. 

·Salary £60,000-70,000 salary guideline.

·Benefits include £10,000 car or car allowance, 5% employer pension contribution and performance bonus usually worth £4,000-£5,000.

·Operations Director will be part of the Senior Leadership Team.

·Privately owned, well established business with an eye to sustainable growth.

·Friendly team, good levels of staff motivation, Nice facility which has seen good investment to staff facilities and equipment.

Skills and Experience:

·Operations Director people management skills suited to manufacturing, warehouse or similar.

·The ability and drive to organise day-to-day and week-to-week operational activities, striking a balance between repeatable drum-beat processes as well as enabling staff anticipate and overcome the unexpected.

·Remain in-touch with the day to day with being drawn into the low level activity. 

·Take demonstrable pride in delivering an operations function which is reliable, efficient and cost effective.  Measurables include overheads and customer satisfaction.

·Be a team player in the management team, supporting the wider business goals.

Negotiable package for the right person, Salary £60,000-70,000 salary guideline.  Benefits include £10,000 car or car allowance, 5% employer pension contribution and performance bonus usually worth £4,000-£5,000.

This job is commutable from Redditch, Birmingham, Worcester, Bromsgrove, Longbridge, Kidderminster.

Reference: IY.75SCM1