Supply Chain Manager

A pivotal role reporting into the site Factory General Manager, and forming part of the site Leadership Team, ensuring customer demand and supply are kept in balance in the short, medium and long term whilst also ensuring seamless management of inbound and outbound to and from site.

The role is multi-faceted, and you will provide strategic leadership to the site as well as manage both analytically and operationally.

Lead departmental safety improvement plan through area ownership, accountability and behavioural change programme

Act as a role model to always ensure the site H&S policy is implemented and followed and to encourage the importance of being mindful to potential hazards and ensuring a behavioural safety culture is developed and sustained on site.

Accountable for delivering departmental quality improvement plan achieving good housekeeping standards and audit (including retailer) programme

Accountable for mentoring, developing and leading team members to deliver continuously improving operating performance

Manage the design and delivery of Manufacturing Prime, Overhead and Operational budgets

Responsible for developing and delivering area productivity programme, offsetting inflation and achieving a departmental cost reduction

Responsible for ensuring that standard methodology is shared between pladis sites and implemented on own site

Facilitate the creation of a dynamic performance orientated culture with aligned and motivated people, ensuring that recognition and financial rewards are clearly linked to measurable performance at all levels

Build a performance climate where people expect to be held accountable for delivery of their commitments

Responsible for the motivation of your team, for leading, mentoring and performance management, to ensure skill and proficiency levels are maintained

Ensure that all manufacturing metrics are well defined, understood by all and achieved

Delivery of strategic labour plans whilst always responding to a fluctuating customer demand, ensuring optimal labour cost performance (Prime Cost Variance - PCV)

Key interface between site and central S&OP function, ensuring production plans can be operationalized and CTP achieved

Strive for the perfect balance between labour costs and meeting our demand forecast to achieve great customer service (ISL).

Working closely with the central S&OP team to produce the Constrained Production Plan which should be communicated effectively.

Overall responsibility for planning inbound & outbound materials activity and the management thereof.

Critical role supporting the site FGM with Management Information coordinating the site operational scorecard

Assuming leadership of key site wide activities as deemed vital, ie that may be broader than own function and involve leading other members of the site leadership team ensuring teamwork, leadership and influence

Manufacturing and warehousing experience

Leading a team in a change environment

Experience of working in a unionised environment

Experience of working in a cross functional team

Experience of performance management of a large team

Strong communicator

The ability to deliver multiple projects on time and in full

In-depth OU and OE understanding and demonstrable improvement of losses

Experience of operating in a FMCG organisation

Project Management skills

Specific experience of handling continuous improvement processes

Previous budget management experience

Excellence plan implementation

IOSH Managing Safely

Food Safety Level 3

Degree qualified

Purpose led – We’re energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite

Agile – We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers

Positive – We’re highly motivated optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better

Resilient - We’re persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn and move forward

Collaborative – We gain strength from operating as one pladis, winning and succeeding together.

pladis is an equal opportunities employer, like every great recipe we’re a thoughtful mix. A happy and inclusive place to work that’s as diverse as our consumers and the communities we support, live and work in, all around the world. Where every voice is heard, and difference is celebrated. Where fresh perspectives and new ideas help us grow and thrive.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business. We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.