Operations Executive

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa AVI Limited Full time

Indigo Brands, based in Cape Town, is a subsidiary of AVI Limited (AVI). Leaders in personal care and beauty products including female and male perfumed body sprays, roll-on deodorants, body care, face care, colour cosmetics and liquid fragrances. Well-known brands include Yardley-Bond Street, Gorgeous, Lace, English Blazer and Lenthéric -Hoity Toity, Solo and Masculin and Exclamation. Indigo's colour cosmetics portfolio is strengthened via the Coty distributor agreement that includes world-renowned brands such as Rimmel.

An exciting opportunity exists for an
OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE at
Indigo Brands based in Epping, Cape Town.

As the successful incumbent you will be accountable for the end to end Strategic and Operational Management of the Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics and associated functions, with the aim of delivering high quality, cost-optimised products and an efficient end-to-end supply chain and logistics capability.

The incumbent will also be responsible for leading the R&D and Packaging Teams to support the Marketing product plans and initiatives.


Direct responsibilities include the following:

  • Endtoend manufacturing, operations and supply chain logistics strategy development and management
  • Site Management of the entire site (2 factories, warehouse, admin building and satellite buildings)
  • Strategic procurement and management including strategic sourcing
  • Development of infrastructure and fixed asset capital spend plans
  • Risk and Quality management in accordance with legislative and other body requirements
  • Stakeholder management with Industry bodies
  • Leading the packaging and product development teams to support the marketing brand and new product strategy

Line Manager:
Managing Director

Number of Direct Reports: 7

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

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Manufacturing, Conversion And Strategic Sourcing

  • Manages the conversion of raw material stock into the finished product through Production to defined quality standards
  • Activation of NPD capability trials and commercialisation
  • Lead the implementation of manufacturing best practices.
  • Monitor the implementation of planned maintenance programmes for equipment and infrastructure
  • Planning, budgeting and implementation of CAPEX projects to cater for new or enhanced production requirements
  • Identify, secure and manage the appropriate resources to align Operations with Indigo strategic requirements
  • Human resources
  • Physical resources


Financial
  • CAPEX and OPEX
  • Suppliers
  • Contractors
  • Develop the strategy and priorities for strategic sourcing in support of the Marketing, brand and the portfolio strategy
  • Evaluate potential strategic sourcing manufacturing partners for finished products and/or components as aligned to Marketing and Brand objectives
  • Develop long term strategic sourcing partnerships with selected partners
  • Maximise the production and manufacturing output by aligning internal objectives with external capabilities in product development and component development
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Supply Chain, Engineering, Site Management, Warehousing and Logistics Management

  • Efficiently running the factories and warehousing and distribution and maintaining the sites
  • Leading the safety, health and environmental agenda for the site.
  • Ensuring legal compliance to the OHS Act and AVI Safety Policies.
  • Being responsible for ensuring a safe workplace by driving safe work practices
  • Supply chain management of raw, subcontracted, and packaging materials to enable the plant conversion priorities. Supply chain management of 3rd party manufacturers.
  • MRP Resource planning window of 12 months for operational requirements
  • Review of supply chain best practice implementation
  • Responsible for the reverse logistics activities i.e. the return of stock from the customer
  • Control of inventory management processes annual counts, cycle counts, perpetual counts, auditing.
  • Ensuring the effective management of Indigo brands site through appropriate asset care strategies for all assets, incorporating good health and safety practices, sound facilities standards, introduction of new technologies through optimised capital investment strategies and optimized plant availability
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Strategy Development

  • Development of a 5 year strategy which covers all elements of the PD and MSandD functions including:
  • Portfolio Strategy Feasibility and Commercialisation
  • Strategic Sourcing and Contract Manufacturing
  • Network Strategy incl Inbound and Outbound Supply Network
  • Site Master Plan Development incl Technology and Infrastructure Investments
  • Margin management/improvement
  • Sustainability and risk management
  • Human Resource planning
  • Leading the formulation, product and packaging development teams to support marketing brand teams objectives
  • Leading the packaging and product development teams to support the marketing brand and new product strategy
and drive the new product development p

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