Business Unit Manager

About this opportunity

Reporting to the General Manager Operations, Pact Packaging New Zealand (PPNZ) and part of a collaborative Operational team. The Business Unit Manager is responsible for the end-to-end operations across the Albany site. This role provides direction and day to day management in order to develop and drive a strong consistent culture of operational excellence across the business, focused on optimising safety, customer service and manufacturing performance.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Overall responsibility for business unit performance.
• Quality, Health & Safety Performance.
• Sales and Customer Management.
• Effective leadership and staff management.
• Operational excellence and continuous improvement, including quality, plant reliability, productivity sales, cost and waste.
• Responsible for delivering key operational objectives and revenue targets for the business.
• Agrees budgets and targets for the business unit and ensure such targets are met.
• Manage key relationships and negotiate deals at the most senior level.
• Creating a business that our people are engaged and proud of.
• Promoting training and development through front line leadership development and succession planning.

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Minimum 5 years senior management experience in a manufacturing or Logistics environment.
• Leadership role in large complex organisation, FMCG or similar.
• Senior Management experience in an operations role or commercial role.
• Professional & commercial knowledge and acumen.
• Experienced in leading and developing high performing teams.
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills
• Demonstrated experience in driving continuous improvement (people, tech, process),
• Collaboration and relationship building skills; ability to quickly form working relationships and gain credibility with senior management.