What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President of Operations position at Anderson Process?
Summary: Reporting to the President, the Vice President of Operations provides input to Strategic & Operational planning activities and is an advocate of the corporate COGS reduction effort and quality improvement via product, manufacturing process & supply chain improvements within The Company’s sales and manufacturing operations. The VP - Operations manages the manufacturing strategy to support multiple products and outsourcing requirements. This position requires the analysis of broad and complex issues and the formulation and execution of strategies to ensure that deadlines and priorities for product delivery to customers are met in a cost-effective manner.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for meeting financial targets (key measurements and benchmarks include operating income, COGS, revenue, margins, & inventory, ROC and growth).
• Contribute to short and long-term organizational planning and strategy as a member of the Executive Management Team.
• Provides leadership, supports, motivates, directs and retains high-caliber staff.
• Promotes “total customer satisfaction” (delivery, quality etc.) within all operational and cross functional teams.
• Identifies and solves critical operational problems.
• Develop Operations strategies, fiscal operating plans and budgets, departmental goals & objectives etc.
• Determines departmental staffing requirements as part of operational planning/budgeting.
• Direct the company’s product line operations to achieve optimum performance, quality and cost. Initiate advanced manufacturing programs in anticipation of the business environment.
• Lead the development, acquisition, and validation of new processes for manufacturing, strategic sourcing, logistics and warehousing to meet business goals.
• Define information systems requirements to support process improvements initiates. Integrate the technology, quality, purchasing and logistics functions to support product, process and customer satisfaction excellence.
• Provide leadership in the development of an effective organization and its members.
• Responsible for establishing approved objectives, plans and budgets for each of the company’s locations.
• The Vice President of Operations will be traveling approximately 20% of the time (expect more during the first 18-months) between the company’s locations working with Direct reports, including Operation Managers.
• Other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary.
Education/Skills/Experience
Required:
• Degree in business, engineering or other relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Professional designation/certification in purchasing, materials management or quality management is desirable.
• 15 years leading a $35 million operations function including experience in an industrial equipment, process equipment or manufacturing environment.
• Experience with both in-house and outsourced manufacturing.
• Superior leadership and people management skills; superior communication skills.
• Strategic thinker with strong planning skills.
• Strong business analysis skills combined with the ability to exercise sound judgment and initiative
• Extensive ERP knowledge.
• Ability to work cooperatively with others in a leadership role to achieve departmental or organizational tasks/goals.
Preferred:
• Product knowledge; Industrial pump experience.
• MBA.
Leadership Requirements:
• Rapidly establish efficient cross-functional working relationships with operations and business development teams and assume his/her leadership position.
• Actively manage and monitor the relationships with key Traditional and Contract Manufacturers and their performance.
• Develop standard operating procedures and best practices in terms of material management, outsourcing and manufacturer’s performance monitoring in order to optimize quality and delivery time.
• Establish a manufacturing and work with IT systems strategy which will capitalize on best practice with a view to optimize and standardize operational process.
Physical Requirements:
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. A reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with a covered disability to perform the essential functions of the position as long as an undue hardship is not imposed.
Anderson Process is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Salary : $35
