Duma Works is recruiting a Senior Operations and Manufacturing Leader for our client in Kampala, Uganda.
This is a senior management role in the manufacturing industry. Candidates with strong manufacturing operations experience are encouraged to apply – if you believe you are ready the next level of leadership – please apply immediately.
In this role, you will work directly under the top executive and will be dealing with the day-to-day details of each department or the organization such as production, human resources, sales and marketing, financial management and performance management. You will act as a liaison between department level managers and the top executive.
You must be a strong leader with the ability to manage upper management employees and provide direction for workers at all levels. The position also requires strong decision-making and problem solving skills as well as time management skills to monitor and evaluate the performance of multiple departments.
Critical Success Factors for the Senior Operations & Manufacturing Leader Job
- Delivering annual sales / revenue targets set by the board
- Ability to motivate internal sales teams
- Knowledge of and ability to manage product distribution channels
- Knowledge of injection and blow moulding technologies
- Value Engineering – Continuous improvement
- Experience delivering expansion projects
- Sourcing, negotiation, delivery and implementation
- Improving or maintaining existing debtor cycles.
- Continuously reduce collection times
- Work with the board and executive management to determine annual organizational financial performance objectives.
- An understanding of key financial reporting metrics for manufacturing companies: Volume, value, unit profitability, efficiency ratios and cost management.
- Financial project management
- Strong cost control culture
- Ability to manage a largely local based team that understands their role in the organization.
- Cultural fit will be an important attribute to determine during recruitment
- Will require an awareness of long employee owner relationships.
- Ability to quickly win the trust of HOD’s.
- Maintain a healthy balance to grow existing talent and minimize temptation to hire new external management during the initial transition.
- An appreciation for complex processing environment across multiple product lines
- Competent and experienced production management staff (specifically in plastics) to support the General Manager in decision making.
- A passion to deliver high quality products to the market as efficiently as possible.
- Products must enhance the brand heritage at all times.
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