Job Description:

Multi-site Operations Manager

UK

£110k plus benefits

We're partnering with a UK wide food manufacturer to appoint a Multi-Site Operations Manager who will operate across several facilities in the UK.

This is an ideal role for someone ready to spread their wings and broaden their influence beyond a single site, playing a key role in driving operational performance across a multi-site manufacturing business.

Reporting to the Group Operations Director, you'll be the driving force behind manufacturing performance across the sites, developing operational capability, improving efficiency and helping create a culture of accountability, consistency and continuous improvement. There's great experience in these teams and this role will help nurture and grow this to its full potential.

What you'll be doing

• Leading manufacturing performance across multiple production sites.
• Driving improvements in safety, quality, service, productivity and cost.
• Supporting and developing site leadership teams.
• Embedding operational excellence and performance management disciplines.
• Delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, waste reduction and labour productivity.
• Working closely with Planning, Technical, Engineering and Commercial teams to optimise business performance.
• Contributing to the wider operational strategy and future growth of the business.

Your background

This role needs someone with a proven track record of delivering results in the food industry in fast paced environments. Someone who understands the challenges in deadline driven environments where the time, quality and customer service mix has the right effect on the all-important numbers. You may be in a site leadership role or managed larger teams and keen to have more variety in your work life than going to the same site every day. This is a strategic role but needs someone who can be involved, down to earth and build relationships despite not being on site every day.

There will be travel and operations/production management experience in the food industry is essential.

This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible leadership role within a well-established food manufacturing business, offering genuine scope to influence operational performance, develop your career and play a significant role in the next stage of the company's growth.

For more information on this role contact Sarah at Novus and apply with a full cv. Is this your next career move in 2027?