Fmcg General Manager (Dry Food Plant) - Durban

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree / NQF level 7:

• 10 years’ experience in a management role in FMCG Manufacturing:

• A good track record in production management.

Job Responsibilities:

• Financial Management:

• Facilitate assessment of budgetary requirements for various processes, activities and running costs and compile an operations budget.

• Manage budgets and monitor expenses ensuring expenditure is within budget.
• Allocate resources and assess utilisation to ensure optimal usage.
• Manage expenses and ensure budgetary compliance and continuously strive to save costs.

Operations excellence and management

• Monitor equipment efficiency and ensures optimal utilisation of plant.
• Actively manage production variances and asset care processes.

Strategy Formulation and Implementation

• Contribute to organisational strategy through formulation of the business strategy to ensure sustainability and profitability.
• Formulate and implement detailed plans and objectives for product development, production, maintenance, plant improvements, asset reliability, quality assurance, supply chain management, environmental health and safety and people management.
• Set objectives and key performance indicators for above mentioned processes and develop and implement a processes / system to monitor these.

Food Safety, Governance & Compliance

• Adhere to and maintain all relevant safety targets and measurements within the area of responsibility, ensuring they secure and maintain all relevant permits and licenses to operate.
• Adhere to and lead in the compliance to all Environmental, Health and Safety and all other applicable regulatory statutes, and all other safety and quality systems.
• Monitor any trends in food and operational safety compliance issues and proactively address to resolve.
• Actively address all customer and supplier concerns.

People Management

• Provide leadership to the team, defining objectives to be achieved by the plant as well as each department.
• Deploy people management processes - workforce planning, recruitment & selection, training and development, performance management, career and succession planning, employee relations etc. in line with organisational policies, procedures, and prevailing improvement initiatives.
• Design and review operation’s organisational structure to support operational plans and strategy, in collaboration with HR.

Supply Chain

• Coordinate raw materials and service supply, production, maintenance, quality assurance and despatch in a way that ensures that key performance indicators for production and packaging quality, manufacturing yield, asset utilisation and on-time delivery to correct customers are achieved.
• Manage the actions for continuous and sustainable improvement to ensure improvement on throughput, efficiency, quality, and cost.

Quality

• Ensure alignment of all work processes to the required quality standards.
• Proactively identify continuous improvement strategies.
• Action agreed quality initiatives ensuring that they are aligned to tasks / processes and systems.

Implement corrective actions identified within specified time