Operations Manager

Operations / Business Manager

40,000 - 50,000

We are delighted to be representing an engineering business based in North Wales who design bespoke components and assemblies for the construction industry.

Is this business for you?

This is a highly innovative business, innovative not just in terms of their products, although they do have various patents and are continually developing new products, but also how the serve their customers and how they are growing the business. They have seen significant growth over the last 5 years, taking one small idea and a leap of faith with one new product, to now operating out of a large, modern facility in North Wales with almost 3 million turnover.

The culture is innovative, mature, supportive and entrepreneurial. This is the type of environment where you enter, and the atmosphere is quite visibly one of helpfulness and everyone wants to strive for excellence.

What you'll be expected to:

• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure that design and manufacturing projects adhere to scope and schedule, overseeing product planning timetables, developing forecasts, tracking expenditure with a sharp focus on ROI and profitability.
• Implement and monitor procedures to improve operational flow.
• Support the Directors to develop product plans, pricing policy and margin analysis for different markets and product range, monitoring exchange rates and freight costs etc.
• Identify and develop strong vendor relationships.
• Work closely with the finance department to manage purchasing.
• Oversee and deliver business development projects as required.
• Develop and manage the quality system in line with ISO9000. Ensuring quality processes are monitored and adhered to.
• Manage product compliance across the full product range ensuring compliance with regulatory and customer specific specifications and standards (e.g. ethical sourcing / packaging / etc.).

Knowledge and Experience:

• Solid experience in a production operations/ business management/ distribution or project management role. Ideally this would be in a construction product or operations engineering role.
• Strong commercial acumen with demonstrable commercial experience.
• Proficient with Microsoft office applications.
• People management experience at supervisory level, including successfully motivating a small team.
• Experience using ERP systems (desirable).

Your Talents

• Resourceful and confident to work autonomously, you are good at identifying opportunities and taking initiative.
• Numerate with meticulous attention to detail you are highly analytical.
• Aptitude for learning new software and systems.
• Comfortable working on multiple projects concurrently.
• Known for delivering results; you are results focused, with a high degree of self-motivation, highly organised, good at maintaining standards, at acting and pursuing goals.
• Excellent communicator & ability to engage people and build effective working relationships.

In Return:

What makes this opportunity unique is the people, the culture, the vision and the progression opportunities. Many companies claim to offer this, but if what you've read so far interests you, please get in touch and will elaborate on the precise reason why this is one of the best opportunities on the market in more detail.

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