A leading printing company is looking for an outstanding candidate, respected and recognised as a leader and motivator of people, to head up its production team. Our client works with many esteemed clients, producing time-sensitive campaigns, and we are looking for someone who is flexible, able to cope under pressure, and manage multiple projects at one time.
The role of Head of Production is a critical position that influences both the customer experience and bottom-line performance of the business. It manages, leads, and motivates the production environment to ensure that the highest standards are achieved and maintained.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the output across the production department
- Manage, lead, motivate and support the team within a time-sensitive and demanding environment. This will include development plans for all direct reports, including production management and department managers.
- Build and maintain relations with agency providers and temporary employees to ensure continuity.
- Lead the day to day operations of all production units to include; scheduling, print, despatch, warehousing
- Maintain health and safety standards within production.
- Manage metrics and time to achieve productivity targets, continuous improvements, increase accuracy and deliver excellent customer service.
- Ensure that all production departments operate within agreed budgets.
- Work closely with support teams (HR, Financial, IT) on staffing plans, schedules and performance levels.
- Drive continuous process improvement.
- Implement change and lead cross-functional improvement initiatives
- Develop business plans and cases to support capex related investments.
- Regularly review and advise on production/commercial risks, and have a solutions orientated approach
- Ensure that the business is operated to the highest standards in line with our accreditations.
- Implement systems for reviewing all operating costs to ensure that they are consistently in line with revenue
- Ensure that all agreed control procedures are followed through in each department
- Agree objectives in line with business strategy and values
Skills & Attributes:
- Drives production and commercial optimisation
- Respected and recognised as a leader and motivator of people
- Customer management at board and operational level
- Thinks smart
- In-depth knowledge or ability to quickly understand Digital print and Litho print
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- The ability to deal with ambiguity and to work well with all levels of employees
- Ability to implement and enhance improvement processes (Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen)
- Experience of operational structuring
Experience:
- Have experience in managing and leading large and diverse teams in a print production-based environment.
- Ability to demonstrate production operations excellence, with an impressive people and metrics lead track‑record in a fast-paced production, manufacturing, print or logistics based environment.
- Proven aptitude for commercial capability.
- Have the ability to achieve results and drive print production through efficiency and process improvement.
- Ability to manage detail, establish root cause and be able to extract and analyse data.
- Must be able to demonstrate effective problem‑solving and analytical capability.
- Thrive on change, inclined to operate with flexibility and commit the time required to get the job done.
- Able to demonstrate a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
- Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen methodologies would be highly advantageous.
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