Head of Production

3 days ago

Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom Chapel Down Full time

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Head of Production to join our dynamic team at Chapel Down, England's leading and largest wine producer. Our award-winning range of sparkling and still wines is a testament to our commitment to quality and excellence.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Health and Safety Management: Ensure a H&S-first culture of work in production, ensuring compliance to H&S legal requirements and best practice ways of working.
  • Production Planning: Lead, motivate and manage the warehousing and production teams to maximise their performance and retention.
  • Quality Control: Liaise with Winemaker and QC Technician to develop and implement further our QC standards of finished goods and packaging materials.
  • Supply Chain Management: Oversee in-house production, ensuring production is planned and completed to meet forecast sales volumes through Chapel Down facilities.
  • Cost Management: Manage production costs, including CAPEX & OPEX budgetary control for bottling and post-bottling production.
  • Third-Party Management: Plan contract pack production to ensure fulfilment of sales forecast, monitoring the performance of third parties to ensure quality and consistency of production.

As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for implementing production KPIs, communicating these upwards and downwards through the team, and driving continual improvement in production and warehousing. You will also be responsible for ensuring relevant KPIs are set and managed to ensure continuous improvement.

We are looking for an individual with extensive experience in operational production management, ideally within the drinks industry. You will have a strong understanding of ERP systems from a production and ordering perspective, as well as a proven track record of implementing production KPIs and driving results.

Benefits include a competitive salary, performance-related discretionary annual bonus, 25 days' holiday plus a day off on your birthday, wine allowance, employee discount, enhanced family leave policies, employee assistance programme, and quarterly company social events.

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