General Manager - Operations - Manufacturing

In partnership with the Finance and Senior Operations management, create the Budget and Annual Operating Plan to satisfy capacity and service requirements. Manage day to day operations to meet and exceed budgeted financial performance with detailed analysis and actions for revenues, margins, cost and inventory control. To continuously seek opportunities for enhanced profitability with the appropriate service levels and improvement of working capital rations.

- Identify and creates a strategic manufacturing plan, provides expertise, resources and collaborate closely with all the label manufacturing activities. Coordinates the flow between the different manufacturing units. Creates and implements the streamlining initiatives of the acquired operations.

- Create and implement a Quality strategy, including design for 6 sigma and specific 6 sigma projects that will result in the on going growth and profitability of the business including establishment of goals and key performance indicators

- Identify and create strategic sourcing plans based on ALS competitive needs. Build relationships with vendors using world-class practices that will best serve the customers needs.

- Interface with Supply Chain, R&D, Strategic Sourcing and Product Management, in order to guide and lead production activities. The General Manager Operations, ALS must communicate up and down the CKP organization to keep team members updated and to garner critical support whenever needed.

In partnership with Sales and Customer service management, ensure that all Standard Lead time Agreements are adhered to. Collaborate with customer management team to create winning sales strategies, specially for open nomination business.

- Resolve ethics crisis, which may occur in the working environment.

- Responsible for all compliance and audits of different retailers.

- Required to interact with the local statutory agencies like UNION representatives.

- Interact with the offices and Buyers of European and US Customers

- Liaison with the top 20 % of the customers