[Company / Industry] Connectivity and Sensors / Manufacturing
[Position] Senior Operations Manager
[Function] Operations
[Reporting Line] Korea Operations Director
[Employment Type] Full time
[Compensation] TBD
[Location] GyeongSan, GyeongSangBukDo, Korea
[Global HQ] Schaffhausen, Switzerland
[Consultant in charge] Simon S. Kim
COMPANY DESCRIPTION:
Global technology and manufacturing company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of a wide range of connectivity and sensor solutions
JOB SUMMARY:
This role is the key leader responsible for overseeing all Plant Operations including; Supply Chain, Procurement, Environmental health and Safety, Manufacturing Engineering and Operational Excellence. The Plant Manager will be a key staff position tasked with developing a comprehensive Operations strategy / plan and executing the plan in a disciplined manner and in line with the Company Operating Advantage, lean, principles. This role is responsible to ensure company and functional goals are achieved and to ensure accountability of his/her team. This role is responsible to build an engaged and high performing organization; assess, coach, and develop talent; and drive inclusion and diversity the organization.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
[STRATEGY]
Combines knowledge of customer needs, business trends, and operations capabilities to develop comprehensive strategic plans that create a sustainable competitive advantage
Leverages the organization and works collaboratively to meet current requirements and future priorities
Ensures effective planning and execution throughout the S&OP process and drives improvement of the S&OP process
Leveraging the Company Operating Advantage, develops an operational excellence manufacturing strategies to drive step change transformation in manufacturing, safety, efficiency, quality, and customer service
Manages all aspects of Gross Margin improvement including material and conversion cost productivity, scrap reduction, inventory, and supply chain cost reduction, capital cost reduction
Creates short and long-term footprint and make-v-buy strategies to achieve business goals
Manages capital cost budget and works globally and regionally to ensure proper utilization of capacity and minimization of capital cost
Oversees headcount strategies, planning and budgeting in collaboration with HR, ensures appropriate strategies to control labor cost and drive flexibility into operations to manage business cycles
[EXECUTION]
Drives for results and meets commitments, creates a culture of accountability and performance.
Collaborates cross functionally and with global and regional counterparts, Centers of Excellence, and business partners to deliver business results and build cost reduction pipelines
Establishes, cascades and monitors key metrics to understand if goals and change initiatives have been met, and improvements are effective
Optimizes and aligns organizational resources and structure to meet and/or exceed established targets KPI’s (Ex: Company Operating Advantage (LEAN), Safety, Quality, Performance, Delivery and Cost.) of a small BU/region
Ensures flexible, effective and balanced supplier contracts, engages and supports in negotiations
Ensures site environmental compliance, health and safety for all sites and employees
Drive organization structures and programs (e.g. footprint changes, migration/localization, consolidation, new product, process and equipment requirements) to meet business goals
Through deployment of the Company Operating Advantage, drives a lean culture that delivers continuous and breakthrough improvements
Manages constrained or critical resources (Labor, Capital, Supplier, etc.), makes tradeoffs, and delivers solutions to optimize short term & long-term performance
Drives S&OP planning process and manages market fluctuations by taking proactive countermeasures including, cost control, labor balancing, inventory optimization, insourcing and outsourcing to ensure business performance and customer satisfaction
[TALENT]
Creates and invests in a robust succession plan at all levels
Effectively identifies, develops, and promotes hi-potential talent; acts as coach for hi-potential talent
Builds functional leadership, skills and capabilities to meet future business needs
Assess functional and technical capability gaps and implements actions to close gaps
Monitors Employee Engagement to drive actions to ensure a highly motivated team
Delivers plan. with support of HR business partner, to proactively manage; retention, headcount, performance reviews, promotion and recognition
Personally demonstrates and drives a culture of inclusion and diversity
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
[COMPETENCIES & SKILLS]
More than 15 years relevant working experience
More than 10 years supervisory experience
Strong working knowledge and direct, hands-on experience implementing lean manufacturing in a manufacturing environment
Multi-site management
Strong financial acumen, prior responsibility for financial (or Gross Margin) performance
Technical skill set, able to comprehend and improve complex processes and products
Proven ability to build effective teams and lead people
[WORK EXPERIENCE]
Must have solid and long enough Operations, Plant Management experience
Supply Chain and Procurement Management
Quality management
Process or Industrial Engineering
Prior union and labor management experience is a plus
Prefer multi-country experience
[EDUCATION]
Bachelor Business or Engineering
MBA preferred
[PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS]
Prefer to CPIM
Prefer TPS, Kaizen certification
[KEY EVALUATION CRITERIA]
Productivity: Conversion Cost, Material Productivity
Company Operating Advantage Level – Level of lean achievement
Delivery: Ship-to-Request & Inventory Turns/Days-on-hand/$
Quality: Customer Complaints, PPM, Cost of Poor Quality, Supplier quality (DLPM).
EH&S: Environmental compliance, TRIR, Energy usage reduction
Gross Margin
[KEY CANDIDATE ATTRIBUTES]
High integrity, open and honest.
Global and multi-cultural mindset, not constrained to convention or custom but respectful of it
Willing to speak up and offer input or opinion even if counter to others, willing to ask questions and seek out support.
Proven track record of performance and promotion
Results and execution oriented
Approachable and collaborative, exemplifies teamwork
Self-motivated, leads by example
If you are interested, please contact simon.kim@rp4rp.com / +82-10-4118-2178