Head of Manufacturing and Supply Chain

vor 4 Wochen


Sydney, Österreich Morgan Consulting Vollzeit

About Our Client

Our client, with over 40 years of history, stands as a leading global manufacturer within its category. Their Australian business is one of the highest performing regions within their global network. They have 3 key locations across the APAC region employing over 500 staff and generating sales exceeding $140 million. Leveraging the financial strength and market reach of its parent company, the business enjoys high profitability and a robust market positioning.

Currently, the company is experiencing a period of significant development and expansion. These efforts aim to deliver innovative products, services, and technical solutions to a diverse customer base. With the significant growth they are looking for an operations leader in Sydney who can take them through their next chapter of their journey.

The Role

The Head of Operations will be a key and influential member of the leadership team, responsible for driving business performance and developing initiatives to achieve market share and profitability growth. This role encompasses the leadership of multi-site operations, safety, and maintenance teams. This role will ensure exceptional performance in key metrics such as Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Inventory, and People. You will also have supply chain responsibility more broadly for planning, procurement and distribution activities.

Key Priorities

Key priorities for the Operations Director include providing outstanding leadership to direct reports (Head of Production, HSE Manager, Maintenance Manager) and broader operational teams, fostering a culture of safety, inclusivity, equity, and performance. Effective P&L management will be crucial, with a focus on capacity management, workforce flexibility, capital expenditure, and margin optimization. Additionally, you will contribute to the broader business strategy and collaborate with commercial and technical teams to drive and implement innovative efficiencies and process improvements. Developing the industrialisation strategy to enhance current production methods and facilitate the introduction of new product categories is also a critical responsibility.

The Candidate

This role is ideal for a proven Operations, Manufacturing, or Production Director seeking to join an ambitious business as a transformational leader. The successful candidate will have led a multi-site or significant single-site B2B manufacturing operation, with a track record of delivering outstanding leadership, operational excellence, profitable growth, and change management. A safety-first mindset is essential, along with the ability to inspire and inclusively lead high-performing teams. Experience in bespoke manufacturing environments would be highly advantageous. Essential skills include strategic vision, financial acumen, operational excellence, risk management, collaborative capability, IT and digital literacy, and talent development. The ideal candidate will be well-educated, ideally to degree level or equivalent, adaptable to change, and possess excellent communication skills.

What’s On Offer

This is real opportunity to take on a mandate to support the organisations growth strategy but developing world class operations standards across their business. We are looking for someone with a growth mindset and ambitions to grow into multi regional role in the future. Our client offers a fair salary, job security and most importantly the full support from the Executive team to build a manufacturing business that will set the benchmark across the globe.

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