Director Operations

Director Operations

Organisation

First in class Global Food Company. The company discovers, develops and produces food ingredients and complete products for both consumers and other companies on a global scale. The organisation consists of four plants. With global coverage and further investments coming up, the company has formulated a strong growth strategy for the future.

Location

The Netherlands

Job description

Ensures proper functioning and innovation of operations and supply chain processes in line with the strategy. This in order to deliver products according to the requirements of the clients, in a (cost-) efficient way, so that business value is added to the Business Unit (BU).

Key Responsibilities

• Formulates the Supply chain policy for the BU consistent with the strategy of the BG, which, results in (mid) long term plans for Supply chain
• Sets up and implements annual plans for the BU, including budgets, and in line with the strategy of the BU, the market developments and its financial and other business objectives, which gives guidance for the activities of the BU
• Ensures the integration and translation of sales forecasts of the clients into adequate production plans and develops and maintains a production organization (including operational planning, continuous improvement programs and engineering), in order to ensure cost efficient production of the agreed products
• Ensures efficient plan and deliver processes for the BU (Transport and Supply Chain Planning), in order to ensure cost efficient plan and deliver of the agreed products and the timely delivery of the products to (internal) customers
• Ensures proper functioning of technical engineering of the BU, in order to ensure cost efficient production of the agreed products
• Formulates, implements and ensures the execution of quality policies for the BU, in line with the BU strategy and corporate, external quality and legal requirements, in order to provide quality assurance for the production process and deliver high quality products to customers
• To purchase goods and/or services, in line with the Category Procurement Strategy and the Business Procurement Strategy, resulting in the timely availability of goods and/or services under the best possible conditions
• Sourcing: Ensure the internal supply of dairy materials via Milk Valorization
• Handle incidental and seasonal (summer/winter) peak supplies of milk
• Ensures the determination of cost prices based on the alignment of the production planning to the sales forecasts of the client, within the BU strategy and corporate guidelines, in order to optimize the cost prices so that the BU meet financial targets
• To manage the financial process and Capex / investment programs, in compliance with the Financial Management policy, resulting in the agreed upon investments and financial objectives and insight in financial results of business operations which enable management to steer
• To manage the human resources management process, in compliance with the Human Resources Management policy, resulting in the desired organizational structure, culture and workforce

Your profile

• Academic or HBO+, industrial engineer or process/food technology
• Project management
• Costs and budgets
• Production, Supply chains and Logistics
• Continuous improvement programs
• Involved in the business to be a business partner for the BU MD and other MT members
• Ability to determine and steer business implications of change-management
• Good communication skills
• Diagnosis and problem solving
• Financial Management skills
• Strong people manager (leadership)

Terms of employment

Excellent remuneration package.

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the link below. For more information, please contact Kasper Houben at +31 (0)73 61 54 700 or +31 (0)6 25 07 86 87.

Please note: This is a repost of a previous position. Candidates who have applied before are kindly requested not to send in a new application.