Head of Operations Manufacturing

5 days ago

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Bis Henderson Full time

**Location**: Oxford

**Salary**: £70K - £75K + additional benefits

**Summary**: To manage 3rd party co-packing contracts in terms of performance, costs and quality relating to both manufacturing and warehousing operations. Help co-ordinate New Product Development (NPD) activity through its various stages includingproduct rework for promotional purposes. Manage the technical, quality and legal compliance agenda through the Technical Manager. Management of origin bulk availability and ongoing quality and specification.

Ensuring accuracy and reconciliation of stock in bulk and warehousing operations. Maintaining accuracy of the master data.

Key Responsibilities:

- Help design and deliver the long-term vision for the supply chain area with clearly identifiable milestones
- Take active part in senior management team (SMT) activity and drive the UK agenda through activity and reporting lines
- Management of the ongoing contract for 3rd party manufacturing and warehousing operations in the UK
- Re-negotiation of contracts or mid-term amendments
- Drive performance and continuous improvement in our co-packing operation through regular reviews, targets and projects
- Sign-off of bottling and warehousing invoices for standard operations
- Set, monitor and effectively manage the manufacturing and warehousing budgets
- Ensuring bottling and warehousing capacity is monitored and reviewed to hit current and future projections, and corrective action taken where required
- Ensure reconciliation of stocks within SAP to match physical in various stock rooms, warehouse and bulk
- Lead quality agenda on technical reviews, analysing customer complaints and identifying root cause of Quality Attribute Sheet (QAS) non-conformances
- Support and manage the technical function to provide reactivity to acute issues and ongoing improvements in Quality and Food Safety throughout our supply chain
- Ensure accuracy and timely delivery of master data, Bill of Materials and bottling specifications
- Ensure innovation projects are delivered on time and to specification working through the issues associated with implementation from bulk creation to delivery from warehouse
- Co-ordination point for taxes and other variable levies with regard to materials such as Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) and Packaging Recovery Notes (PRN)
- Investigate and deliver value engineering opportunities through the Innovation Manager

Key Skills/Experience:

- Ideally educated to degree level or above
- Previous manufacturing and warehousing management experience within an FMCG sector

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