WELL-KNOWN MID-SIZE FROZEN FOOD SPECIALIST
- Our client is a successful medium-sized company in the food industry that specializes in frozen potato and vegetable products
- Both branded and private-label products are marketed, generating total sales in the range of hundreds of millions of euros
- As a specialist in frozen products, our client enjoys an excellent reputation and stands out for its innovative strength, sustainable business practices, and consistent customer focus
- Against this backdrop, management sees significant potential for growth, both domestically and internationally
- Production focuses on quality and sustainability, with OpEx standards and capacities having continuously evolved
- As part of a succession plan, we are seeking a new Operations Manager (m/f/d) for the main plant in Löningen, reporting directly to the Executive Board
YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Overall responsibility for production, engineering, and the supply chain
- Ensuring smooth day-to-day operations in production, engineering, and logistics while complying with all quality, hygiene, and food safety standards
- Strategic development of operational structures, shop floor processes, and routines to ensure maximum efficiency
- Initiating and managing automation programs and overseeing investment planning and implementation
- Further development of lean management, operational excellence, and continuous improvement processes (CIP)
- Close collaboration with Sales, Purchasing, Quality, and Finance
- Overall responsibility for approximately 350 employees
YOUR OPPORTUNITIES
- Join an agile, growing company that continuously sets market trends and makes ongoing investments
- Working with a high-turnover product category that enjoys strong consumer appeal and high demand
- Very close collaboration with senior management
- A high degree of autonomy with extensive opportunities to shape the site’s further development
- An attractive balance of operational and strategic tasks
- Work at an attractive company location and within a collaborative corporate culture
YOUR PROFILE
- Several years of leadership experience managing operations in the food or near-food industry
- Strong focus on processes and productivity, with state-of-the-art knowledge of operational excellence topics, such as continuous improvement (CIP), Lean, agile shop floor methods, modern maintenance approaches, etc.
- Forward-thinking, solution-oriented, and hands-on, while also being a motivational leader; with experience in developing operations teams and high-potential talent
- Solid knowledge of the principles of employee participation in the workplace, as well as experience collaborating with employee representative bodies
- A technical degree in the food industry (e.g., food technology, process engineering) or a comparable qualification
- Very good English skills
We look forward to getting to know you
If your skills and experience align with this position, we look forward to receiving your detailed application materials. Norbert Richter ( ) will be happy to advise you by phone at +49 421 22 33 93 0.
Please send your application materials to bewerbung@incharge-management.com with
Reference: BL-NI
Information on earliest start date/salary expectations
We will, of course, treat your application materials and personal data as strictly confidential. We will only forward them to our client after receiving your explicit approval.
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