Manager: Manufacturing Pharmaceutical and Luxury

Our client is seeking to appoint a Manager: Pharmaceutical & Luxury Goods, responsible for overseeing all manufacturing operations within the business, focusing on the growth of each product line, which includes pharmaceutical and household products; fragrances; cosmetics; clothing and other apparel. Manufacturing and Distribution personnel will be under your management responsibility, while you develop and implement policies and procedures to maintain the highest of manufacturing standards.

***Position Purpose**:

- As Manager: Pharmaceutical and Luxury Goods, you will demonstrate excellent manufacturing with production process experience;
- Lean manufacturing experience focusing on efficiencies and processes for production facility improvement;
- Ensure a safe environment, managing workflow production projects, ensuring efficient processes;
- The goal is to create and preserve an environment where manufacturing employees and distributers oversee, co-ordinate and establish a high-level quality assurance of produced materials and goods.

**Role Specific Accountabilities**:
**Strategic and Operational Management**:

- Contribute to the organisational strategic plan by understanding the organisational vision, identifying, developing and drafting key strategic inputs and providing these inputs to the organisational plan annually;
- Develop the Pharmaceutical and Luxury Goods strategy by undertaking research and drafting the strategy, aligning with the overall long-term organisational strategy and vision, identifying priorities and defining business focus annually;
- Report on performance by tracking business performance against targets, identifying progress and areas of concern, identifying and implementing improvement measures drafting reports and submitting quarterly and as required;
- Financial management, pricing strategies and product demand forecasts, monitoring progress, identifying areas for improvement or new opportunities and managing the implementation of actions monthly and as required;
- Lead the knowledge and communication sharing process for the business with teams and other relevant stakeholders by developing inputs, preparing communications and participating in discussion forums as required.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and implement manufacturing policies, protocols and procedures;
- Oversee production process ensuring the highest level of quality control;
- Control budgets for manufacturing facilities, operations and monitor expenses;
- Ensuring the growth of a sustainable distribution model, with retention strategies based on world-class service;
- Ensure production stays on schedule assuring products meet quality standards;
- Analyze production data and optimize for efficiency;
- Direct an efficient layout of equipment and flow of materials; ensuring equipment meets performance and safety requirements;
- Attend meetings with supervisory team, determining operational needs and continuously improve operations for performance;
- Plan and co-ordinate manufacturing operations;
- Review reports of incidents and breaches;
- Investigate and resolve issues;
- Create reports for management on manufacturing output status;
- Analyse data to form proposals for improvements (eg. Implementation of new manufacturing technology, to advance output measures).

**Financial Management**:

- Develop the budget by identifying activities and costs, preparing the budget and submitting it annually and as required;
- Manage expenditure by tracking spend against budget allocations, approving expenditure, address any budget variances and provide feedback monthly and as required.

**Governance**:

- Participate in Board and sub-Committees by preparing reports, presenting reports, answering queries and implementing decisions as required;
- Manage the development and implementation of policies and procedures by reviewing policies, identifying policy gaps, drafting policies and managing implementation of policies annually and as required;
- Monitor compliance with policies and procedures, identify areas of non-compliance, address non-compliance and track improvements as required;
- Monitor legislative and regulatory changes by reviewing the landscape, identifying changes, analysing and interpreting the impact of the changes, integrating changes into the policies and procedures and communicating these changes as required.

**Communications Portfolio**:

- Set the strategic direction and monitor the execution of internal and external communications, key organisation events and ensure that brand standards and compliance in communications is adhered to;
- Ensure that potential areas of crisis or issues are identified and oversee the implementation of the crisis / issues management plan.

***Staff Leadership and Management**:

- Define the staff requirements by reviewing the workload, defining work allocations and developing job profiles as required;
- Resource the team by retaining, recruiting, selecting and appointing