Factory Director- Food

 

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.  

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.  

 

Location: Hugoton

The Factory Director will lead manufacturing activities in the factory to achieve desired financial and customer service objectives. The Director delivers site targets including service, costs, productivity, quality, innovation, OSHE and employee engagement. The Operations Manager leads the local management team to implement and sustain supply chain and category strategies including those in safety, quality, World Class Manufacturing, employee relations, performance management and development of talent. This position is a critical member of the supply chain leadership team and the leads the development and sharing of best practices across the network.  

 This role will build a strong team in a new facility and must have experience in the dairy manufacturing industry. 

 

• Deploy annual operational and financial plans to deliver targets on service, costs, productivity, quality, innovation and Safety, Health & Environmental while recommending long term site strategic plans. 

• Lead the site on Continuous Improvement strategies to engage and facilitate the implementations of innovations for the site for not only products, but ways of working, cost & service models and the supply chain structure. This will include working with the Category Technology team to implement capital investment to meet planned production, quality, safety, environmental & cost targets. 

• Ensure that the technical standards of all manufacturing and non-manufacturing fixed assets are maintained. Enable the factory operation to achieve high level of Customer Service at optimal cost. 

• Coordinate and direct the factory and co-packer operations to achieve the agreed production plans at the specified product quality with optimum labor, energy and materials utilization. 

• Ensure Working Capital management systems are effectively used and deliver inventory targets set with Regional Category Planning Directors and Regional Supply Management Directors. 

• Ensure effective local stakeholder management and community issues aligned with Company policies. 

• Guard and ensure the application of all Company policies and governance requirements. 

• Lead on initiatives and projects aiming for sites integration and collaborative work along the extended Supply Chain 

• Be the statutory head of factory where there is a legal separation 

• Lead HR policy deployment and implementation on sites, including management of employee relations. 

• Coordinate and direct the Quality Management 

• Other duties as assigned. 

 

Qualifications: 

• Education. Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related field from an accredited institution. 

• Experience in FOOD manufacturing and aseptic environments required. 

• Minimum of 8 years in a Supply Chain role (Manufacturing, Technology, EHS, Quality) 

• Minimum 3 years working in a role leading an entire factory, preferably  

• Experience in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) is strongly preferred. 

Experience Required: