General Manager - Food Manufacturing

Our client is a well-established family owned Yorkshire food manufacturer - specialising in the luxury savoury snack market. Founded in 2005 our client produces award winning high end savoury snacks with a factory based on the outskirts of Sheffield.

Their small dedicated team is proud of its Yorkshire roots and creates delicious snacks using the finest local ingredients for customers nationally and globally!! Due to expansion plans, our well established manufacturing client are looking to appoint an experienced General Manager to lead and grow the business.

As General Manager, you will be responsible for leading on all aspects of the business, including the strategic vision and goals, site operations, budgets and finance, sales and new business growth, customer services, talent management, evaluating and improving productivity and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.

Core Objective:
The overall development, performance and maintenance of the organisation’s activities to obtain the maximum efficiency, quality, service and profitability for the organisation.

Responsibilities include:

• The smooth running of the business organisation and team
• Manage, direct and monitor the overall performance of the manufacturing organisation
• Direct the development of plans for the organisation to achieve targets
• Developing plans for the organisation’s progress and growth
• Delivering a safe working environment and ensuring that food safety and quality objectives are established, monitored, documented, and reviewed
• Ensuring that regular review mechanisms are in place to monitor and support delivery of performance objectives - at site, team and individual level - and ensuring that standards are continually being met/improved upon
• Owning the talent process on site
• Actively encouraging a culture of engagement in which people can perform at their best in a safe and rewarding workplace.
• Delivering a strategic vision for the business and ensuring that a tracking mechanism exists to monitor progress and that the team is in place to act upon it.
• Aligning functional structures, objectives and KPI’s to deliver against Business and Operations Strategies
• Delivering a Cost Reduction Plan that encompasses cross functional initiatives
• Delivering a Capital Investment Programme that enables the vision to be delivered.
• Steering continuous improvement projects from ideas generation to completion
• Ensuring that a robust and transparent communications system is in place for the site and ensuring that the site Communications Plan is delivered in full via site briefings and extended management team briefs
• Taking responsibility for all key day-to-day decisions relative to the Site with respect to Site duty holder, Safety policies, Quality policies, Capital and maintenance spend, Overhead spend allocation, Dismissal appeals and the recruitment of senior team members

What we need from you:

• Proven success in a managerial role and leading a business to maximum productivity and efficiency
• Proven track record of successfully leading multi-functional teams to deliver strategic and operational objectives.
• Proven ability to build and achieve robust, realistic operational budgets and targets
• Strong business mind with good decision-making abilities
• Excellent communication, collaboration and delegation skills
• Suggestions for business growth, marketing and sales strategies and ideas to expand the brand to new markets
• A track record of success in identifying and implementing operational improvements
• Demonstrable experience of managing and driving transitional and cultural change
• Demonstrable project management experience in delivering continuous improvement, operational efficiency and/or major capex projects
• Ability to coach and mentor others and act as an effective role model, championing required values and behaviours
• Ability to influence at all levels and to all stakeholders and well-practised negotiation skills
  
  

What we offer you in return:

• Highly competitive salary
• Car allowance
• On target bonus
• Generous pension contribution
• Range of corporate benefits
• A great local food company