Croda is a FTSE100 manufacturing organisation with a vision to create ‘Smart Science to Improve Lives’. With over 5,000 staff globally and over 30 sites, we are focused on innovating and manufacturing the next generation of biological ingredients to serve our customers in the Consumer Care and Life Sciences sector.
Our manufacturing site at Ditton is a key manufacturing operation within our Consumer Care business and we have significant capex investment allocated to support our further growth.
We are now looking for a progressive leader to take oversight of the site and lead a team to deliver against the site’s long-term strategic objectives.
Who we're looking for:
- Degree qualified with prior experience in a leadership role within a batch chemical manufacturing environment
- Passion for behavioral, process, and operational safety within a manufacturing environment with an ability to embed safety as a value across the site
- High level of strategic thinking to craft, communicate, and deliver a longer-term site strategy and culture aligned with business goals.
- Excellent people leadership skills to coach and develop a Site Leadership Team while also promoting continuous people development at all levels across the site
- Efficient communication skills to influence and engage within an international and cross-cultural organization
- High level of curiosity with the ability to implement change while promoting a culture which captures continuous improvement opportunities and mindset.
- Background leading a unionized site and promoting a culture based on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion.
Key Responsibilities
- To lead a 3–5-year site strategy encompassing all areas of Operations (Opex & Capex) SHEQ and Organizational Development to build a highly efficient and high performing site culture.
- Effectively coach, develop, and motivate all members of a cross-functional site management team while maintaining effective succession planning
- Build productive industrial relations with the workforce and negotiate terms and conditions, including pay with site unions or staff on behalf of Croda as required.
- Work closely with the Croda businesses: e.g., with sales and marketing to develop new processes and products to maximize site profitability; and with central departments (e.g., SHE, Personnel) to set development and improvement priorities, and with other sites regionally and globally where appropriate.
- Stimulate and encourage creativity within the site management team to deal efficiently with challenges such as cost savings, process improvement, and new product development and thus create a continuous improvement culture on site.
- Ensure that proper communication, instruction, and training are delivered to site employees, and ensure that adequate consultation takes place with employees and their representatives on material issues (e.g., pay round).
- Comply with the Croda CSR policy and ensure effective management of external relationships such as regulatory (e.g., HSE) and local community bodies.
- Act as a change champion for the site, influencing peers, board and exec members, to promote inward investment in new products, processes, and assets.
- Anticipate high-level problems and challenges to the site by keeping aware of business and external trends and be proactive in dealing with them before they arise or get too big.
- Develop a range of options to deal with anticipated risks. Communicate serious issues and recommended actions to Divisional Board and Executive
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