Vice President, Operations
- Location: Toronto, ON
- Posting Date: August 09, 2024
- Job Order ID: 1000574
- Consultant: Paul Cannon
- Industry: Operations
Our global partner with close to 100 years of industry leading manufacturing experience and has experienced significant growth in Canada in the past 5 years is looking for their next Vice President of Operations to lead the strategic operations for their Canadian business. Your role is to create a vision that maintains the highest level of safety, drives efficiency, optimizes processes, generates a standard of excellence and is strategically aligned across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Create and communicate a clear vision for operations within Canada.
- Direct the manufacturing of products at the lowest cost consistent with established specifications while maintaining quality, reducing costs and attaining all customer service objectives and Company requirements.
- Develop, implement and direct logistical and distribution procedures, policies and practices to ensure that materials are transported and inventoried in the most effective, economical manner for optimum supply assurance.
- Lead and foster collaboration across all operational disciplines (demand and production planning, procurement, production, quality assurance, safety, maintenance, logistics & supply chain) across sites.
- Responsible for the preparation of all capital investment projects and equipment, expense budgets and the maintenance and coordination of these financial estimates and plans. Direct the selection, and installation of equipment necessary to maintain facilities in a competitive position, as well as having ultimate responsibility for cost reduction and control programs while maintaining full utilization of manufacturing capacities.
- Responsible for ensuring that GMP’s, quality initiatives and safe working conditions are present at all times. Ensure various governmental, food safety and other required standard certifications are adhered to at all times.
- Drive Operational Excellence in a culture of Continuous Improvement.
- Degree or Diploma in Operations Management, Business Administration or a related field is preferred.
- Proven and demonstrated experience (typically 10+ years) in an operations leadership role (strong preference to food processing, and/or multi plant responsibility) with at least 5 years that included designing strategy, executing the vision and building strong team collaboration.
- Track record of leading through high growth & expansion.
- Certification in Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt) and experience with lean principles preferred.
- Capital projects experience in design and execution.
- Project Management experience or PMP nice to have.
- Experience dealing with unionized and non-unionized workforce.
- Ensuring a robust set of KPIs are created and maintained that provide insights to operational effectiveness.
- A natural charismatic leader/self-starter and change driver who uses a collaborative, team-oriented style approach to getting things accomplished.
- Able to educate, motivate and inspire others (at all levels in organization).
- Strategically oriented, the individual should demonstrate strong business acumen and exhibit an in-depth understanding of all key operational areas.