Business Unit Manager (Ref: 414) at Global Profilers

Responsibilities: 

Category/Function: Supply Chain 

Job Purpose

• The individual will create an environment that is conducive to growth and innovation both from a facility, product, people and personal level enhancing Manufacturing excellence. 

Responsibilities

• Monitor workforce team.
• Ensure occupational health and safety.
• Supplier development.
• Understand operation to the lowest level and have clear focus
• Control/reduce working capital levels, material yield usage, labour and overhead recovery and overhead budget expenditure.
• Handle Customer complaints.
• Ensure there are no out of stock situations with regard to the units product range.
• Audit benchmark scores obtained.
• Ensure legal compliance.
• Achieve workforce growth achieved.
• Ensure Community upliftment and Plant availability.
• Create, execute and maintain the Unit vision.
• Approve unit stock levels.
• Develop supplier price and stock strategies.
• Approve and control cycle count.
• Determine Staff compliment.
• Analyse processing facility.
• Implement measurement standards.
• Implement and monitor quality measurements across the processing facility.
• Analyse actual production versus the master production schedule and availability of product requirements.
• Analyses of preventative maintenance requirements.
• Determine bottlenecks in process.
• Communicate the strategy. Effective and on time implementation.
• Establish the necessary vehicles to drive the implementation.
• Ensure a strategic facility’s plan for the Unit is in place and communicated.
• Ensure the investment required for the strategy is obtained.
• Create and maintain healthy IR and ER climate conducive to the formation of positive teamwork.
• General Management of department and staff.
• Investment into Safety prevention.
• Establishment and control of a safe facility and environment.
• Implementation of safety measurement system.
• Represent the unit in all decisions based on how to obtain buy-in and support for the vision in order to achieve the objectives. Ongoing.
• Determine minimum stock levels. Done Monthly.
• Approve suppliers and establishing required service levels. Done annually.
• Ensure efficient usage of resources at all times.
• Integrate strategy into current processes and procedures. Quarterly.
• Take category decisions based on product blue print information on the type of equipment required that would confirm to product characteristics.
• Identify and decide on correction of underperformance and complementing good performance.
• Ensure appropriate pricing and development strategies

Qualification and Experience:

• Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Finance or related business subjects.
• Minimum of 5 years production and general management experience in a FMCG environment.
• Workplace improvement strategy.
• Social transformation strategy.
• 5 Year facilities strategy.