Premier Recruitment Group is working in partnership with a well established and international organisation in Dartford to recruit an EMEA Operations Director to join their team. This is an exciting, full-time and permanent role.

The Operations Director is responsible for managing Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Warehouse Engineering, Facilities, Continuous Improvement, Quality and Health and Safety departments at the Dartford (UK), France and Netherlands production sites.

Responsibilities & Duties

Operations Leadership:

• Oversee all aspects of manufacturing, quality, safety & process excellence inclusive of harmonisation of best practice, managing the Lean/6 Sigma process, and quality systems support.
• Responsible for the leadership and implementation of continuous improvement and lean programs.
• Establish and maintain KPI's to evaluate plant, warehouse and laboratory capacity & productivity.
• Ensure all relevant standard operating procedures, Level 2 procedures and risk assessment relative to areas of work are in place and up to date.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies and procedures as well as pharmaceutical current good manufacturing & laboratory practices.
• Establish and maintain relevant operational and safety metrics to maintain/enhance continuous improvement process.
• Responsible to ensure capacity & resources are in place ahead of demand across all sites in remit.
• Oversee activities related to facilities, budgets, capital planning, procurement, production, shipping, storage and handling, maintenance, quality control laboratory, quality assurance, and workforce on/off-boarding decisions, development of personnel and mentoring of employees.
• Prepare/support plant budgets, production plans, and workforce development plans.
• Support the Customer Focus objective by occasionally travelling to customer sites and participating in customer on site quality audits.

People management:

• Develop resilience across our operations in terms of human resource planning, driving productivity and building people capabilities.
• Support Operations Management Team in clear and meaningful performance management conversations.
• Develop employees through consistent coaching/feedback, management objectives & company values.
• Lead by example by consistently following established safety, quality and production procedures, guidelines, work instructions, and process flows.
• Regional / global responsibilities
• Report directly into the Managing Director of EMEA with a dotted line to the Vice President of Global Operations.
• Key member of the EMEA Regional Leadership Team.
• Responsible for overall security and safety for EMEA sites and all employees.
• Lead coordinator for disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Provide support for global technical development, safety, quality control, quality assurance, marketing, production planning, cost accounting, and information technology departments.
• Provide support and input for all Global Initiatives where required.

Essential:

• Strong previous manufacturing and process understanding.
• Strong demonstrable management experience.
• Good demonstrable experience of preparation and management of sizeable budgets, across multiple cost centres.
• Experience of project management.
• Lean and Six Sigma Experience (qualification/trained).

Desirable:

• Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical good manufacturing practices, laboratory operations and modern safety programs.

If you think you have the right skills, knowledge and abilities for this position and would like to be considered, please apply or contact directly Tom Kurczab at Premier Recruitment Group.