Operations Manager Romania & Bulgaria

Education: University degree (technical/economics background)

Competencies:
 Strong result oriented business acumen playing independent and proactive role in leading operations
 Strategic thinker, balancing properly short and long term business needs
 Strong leadership and people development skills; able to select right people to right positions and act in timely manner
 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, building effective cross-functional relationships, ability to resolve conflicts
 Ability to build good relationships with authorities
 Strong customer orientation
 Dealing with ambiguity, risk management, composure and timely decision making in high quality
 Capable of managing priorities and solving complex problems
 High integrity in aligning to values and strong ability to role-model

Technical competencies:
 Is familiar with state of the art concepts, practices and procedures in the operations management
 Knowledge of specific legislation
 Speak English fluently

Other requirements of the position:
 Experienced leader dealing with problems from a senior management perspective
 Used to work in a multinational environment
 A successful record of working in a high performance oriented environment focused on delivering quality results
 15+ years of progressively increasing managerial experience in an FMCG production environment

Reports to: Operations Director CEE
Working place: Brasov

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB: Leads and manages all operations functions including manufacturing, logistics, material management, production planning, warehousing and inventory management, distribution and transportation, customer service and product lifecycle management to meet company’s business requirements and excellent customer service level.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
 Builds an effective team, selects, develop and motivates the team members and manage their performance
 Develops and implements operations strategy and objectives as part of the strategy and business objectives of the company
 Manages the operations function in order to ensure outstanding customer service level at optimum costs
 Ensures the integration of sales forecast, procurement, production, logistics and customer service functions into a smooth end to end process
 Ensures effective crossfunctional and crossborder cooperation, facilitates resolution of conflicts and quick decision making at emerging problems with optimum risk level
 Builds and manages good relationships with external business partners and ensures their performance
 Elaborates annual budget of expenses and investments required and maintain costs within the approved budget
 Ensures compliance with legal requirements, health and safety regulations, food safety and quality regulations, company policies and internal regulations, procedures and code of contact within the operations function
 Builds and manages good relationships with authorities, effectively negotiates proper implementation of legislative requirements, solicit approvals and solves legislative issues