Operations Director

Operations Director
Permanent
Shropshire
Supply Chain
£82k+
Immediately available
Would Relocate
89986
04/10/2022

Globally experienced, strategically minded Operations and Manufacturing excellence Leader, Team enabler and stakeholder influencer, driving high performance culture utilising Lean. Start up and high growth specialist.

Why are they a good candidate?

  • He's proven Global International experience in various industries, including the highly regulated medical field and automotive, experience with successful change management with excellent results, numerous successful Lean implementations, global supply change excellence leader.
  • Promoted in all jobs within 6 months of joining a company, proving I get results quickly and engage with my team, peers, and stakeholders.
  • Managed teams of between 1 and 3000 and various size teams in between.
  • Very capable proven project and programme manager.
  • Curious by nature, always keen to learn and grow, and enabler not a dictator, non-political leader who loves his daily Gemba walks (including a weekly H&S walk) very results oriented, remote manager of teams globally, and culturally sensitive. 
  • Has always left a positive legacy in every role he's taken on, including Several successful ERP installations

3 greatest professional achievements:

  1. Driving Lean/Business excellence into two Saudi business groups.  Change is not the norm in Saudi so if I can drive change in that environment, I can drive it anywhere. This included running a SMED project on a large pipe mill, together with a 5S project, that transformed the mill itself and brought the set-up time from 36 hours, to 3, generating a huge productivity improvement and output.

  2. Setting up a Group Purchasing and Supply Chain function where others had failed before me, for a global contract manufacturer, managing key stakeholders (site MD’s) and delivering a 18% spend cost reduction.

  3. Most recently, for a medical device start up company, as well as changing an acrimonious relationship into a partnership with the CEM, took on all company wide key projects and brought in their first major project exactly on time whereas all projects before were minimum 6 months late.

3 most important things about next move:

  1. Opportunity to learn and grow -very open to industry including those I have not yet worked in.

  2. As broad a role as possible, to utilise my global operational experience.

  3. Financially stable organisation, though open to start up’s.