Senior Operations Manager

[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