Manufacturing Manager

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you. As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits. To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact
Click “Apply” to get started. Why join our team? pladis is home to iconic brands Godiva, McVitie’s and Ulker. These brands make sweet treats and savoury treats that consumers everywhere recognise and enjoy! As we start on our new journey, we will continue making the biscuits and confectionery people know and expect from these brands, and we will expand their portfolios too. Together we will build new and exciting products at pladis – new flavours, new concepts and new ways to share happiness! Our strength is not only in our products, it is also in our people and our values. Each business that has united to form pladis are loved for their heritage and values. We will retain the honesty, integrity and trust instilled in our brands by our ground-breaking founders as we embark on the next chapter of our success. We are hiring a Manufacturing Manager to join the Carlisle Leadership team on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a strategically vital manufacturing department, delivering a range of operational objectives, strategic projects and culture change. You will report directly to the Carlisle Factory General Manager and directly line manage a large team of Team Managers covering 24 hours/day production activities. Other key relationships you will have:

• Other site Manufacturing Manager
• Supply Chain Manager
• Site Engineering Manager
• Process Development Manager
• Trade Union Representatives
• Senior Brand Managers
• Finance Manager
• Experience Lead
• HR Business Partners
• ER Lead
• Excellence Lead
• Other Site Functions

What will this role achieve? Overall ownership and accountability for ensuring the manufacturing area is a safe, efficient and a quality focused operation which satisfies all pladis standards plus customer expectations and requirements. Participation in the development and execution of the sites continuous improvement vision and strategy will be a priority, as well as actively facilitating a team development improvement process. You will input to the delivery of medium to long term strategy to enable the factory to control its cost base with variable plant utilisation. What will be your key deliverables?

• Lead departmental safety improvement plan through area ownership, accountability and behavioural change programme

• Responsible for driving site Health and Safety (H&S) policy to follow company & statutory regulations & guidelines, procuring capital and setting functional objectives and targets
• Act as a role model to always ensure the site H&S policy is implemented and followed and to encourage the importance of being mindful to potential hazards and ensuring a behavioural safety culture is developed and sustained on site.
• Accountable for delivering departmental quality improvement plans achieving continual improvement of cpmu, housekeeping standards and retailer audit programme
• Accountable for mentoring, developing and leading team members to deliver continuously improving operating performance and conformance to plan.
• Manage the delivery of Manufacturing Prime, Overhead and Operational budgets
• Responsible for developing and delivering area Productivity programme, offsetting inflation and achieving departmental cost reduction in line with Budget targets.
• Responsible for ensuring that standard methodology is shared between pladis sites and implemented on own site
• Facilitate the creation of a dynamic performance orientated culture with aligned and motivated people, ensuring that recognition and financial rewards are clearly linked to measurable performance at all levels
• Build a performance climate where people expect to be held accountable for delivery of their commitments
• Facilitate the development of yearly manufacturing plan for the area aligned with both site and pladis UK vision and objectives
• Responsible for the motivation of your team, for leading, mentoring and performance management, to ensure skill and proficiency levels are maintained
• Ensure that all manufacturing metrics are well defined, understood by all and achieved
• Deliver the consistent use of process, systems and procedures to ensure production plans are optimised and eliminate non beneficial activities through compliance with core systems and processes within manufacturing
• To set high standards and lead by example to facilitate continuous improvement ( ie 14 Step Kaizen projects) in cost base and critical metrics utilising lean manufacturing techniques
• Be a lead player in delivery of culture change workstream initiatives delivering the ‘One pladis’ vision to Carlisle

What do you need for this role? Essential

• Proven manufacturing experience and strong analytical skills
• Managing people in a change environment
• Experience of working in a unionised environment
• Experience of working in a cross functional team using LEAN tools and techniques
• Experience of performance management of a large team
• Strong communicator and natural motivator
• The ability to Deliver multiple projects on time and in full

Desirable

• Experience of operating in a FMCG organisation
• Project Management skills
• Specific experience of managing continuous improvement processes
• Previous budget management experience
• Excellence plan implementation

Our winning traits and behaviours

• Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
• Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied and never standing still
• Collaborative - Willing to work collectively for mutual success
• Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner and persistent in the face of setbacks
• Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring

Diversity and inclusivity is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe – and this diversity is our great strength. We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law. We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.