Goal orientated change agent with a track record for creating and implementing sustainable solutions through the use of a plethora of complex skills, specialising in site turnarounds.
Why are they a good candidate?
- Broad end to end experience of commercial/technical/project management/supply chain/manufacturing activities to ensure wholistic perspectives.
- Lean manufacturing / process improvement advocate in both office and on the shop floor to focus on added value, waste reduction and improve the speed and flow of information and materials.
- Strong communicator on all levels.
- Bought into continuous improvement and able to deliver training, mentoring and guidance on it to ensure maximum productivity across a team.
- Worked on projects ranging from £20-80m.
- Plethora of industry knowledge and experience from different aspects in various roles.
3 greatest achievements:
- Turnaround of a loss-making unit from a forecasted -£2m to £1.3m in 3 years via tender accuracy improvements, change management and introducing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies. This, in future, resulted in achieving business growth from £12m to £22m following the implementation of a new commercial strategy including NPI into the UK market.
- Alignment of 5 manufacturing and 10 project delivery vehicles into a coordinated activity with corresponding improvement in critical KPI’s whilst reducing inventories by 15% and headcount by 10%.
- Turnaround of loss-making unit in Canada from -$2M in to $0.5M in 2 years. This was led by the creation and implementation of a new commercial strategy ($16m CAD to $27m CAD Sales), introduction of lean manufacturing & CI, and transition to turnkey project management coupled with improved margin retention.
3 most important things about next move:
- Clarity and alignment on role/responsibilities and the business’ goals
- An Organisation that is bought into improvements and has a sense of urgency to achieve their goals
- To be able to have the ability to connect with and interact with the teams, to provide help and support and be a mentor.