Commercial Operations Manager
hace 2 días
Leicester
The Role: To ensure customer margin is maximised in Leicester site and that key site profit targets are met and realised in the site P&L’s. To provide commercial support to customer projects including the sales and customer service organisations and manage day to day operations. This role is a site-based role and will hold overall leadership responsibility for the customer service team, driving excellence and continuous improvement. Skills and Competencies required: Skills: • Experience of a manufacturing environment – able to appreciate process capabilities, • Commercial/financial awareness of margin recovery drivers, • Excellent knowledge of the business/product range & capabilities/ manufacturing processes and information systems, • Product knowledge, • Budget management., • Selling skills., • Communication/presentation skills., • Negotiation skills., • Customer relations skills. People Management Leadership & Vision – Ability to inspire a team with a clear vision and purpose Coaching & Developing people – The ability to teach operational skills to others and mentor/coach accordingly Managing performance – Ability to monitor and evaluate performance and take appropriate action. Personal Competencies Communication – Ability to convey ideas and decisions to internal and external customers Determination – Ability to overcome obstacles Influence/Persuasiveness – Ability to influence and inspire others to act As a member of the L&L management team, the candidate must be able to support and align with consensus decisions of the team. Managing the Business Organisation – The ability to judge situations accurately and make sound operational decisions to deliver results on time • Continuous Improvement – The ability to continually monitor and review current working practices and make the best use of resources to improve organisational results Key Responsibilities: Commercial Strategy • Initiate, lead & deliver Commercial improvements to increase profitability. To include: Additional Charges, Aged Stock charges, Fast Tracks, Spot pricing and Margin Creep., • Review site profitability and identify opportunities to increase margin and reduce cost., • Promote commercial awareness of service flexibility and responsiveness across operations within the region, • To review account profitability and support activities to increase margin and reduce cost, • To support new projects and products from a commercial view, • Define & implement margin assessment process, • Investigate and formulate margin improvement initiatives and prioritise implementation for maximum benefit and quick return, • Ensure compliance and adherence to Customer SLA, and actively look for opportunities for Margin improvements., • Manage and maintain Customer price lists., • Define charging approach per site/customer – implementing a regular review process for changing circumstances, • To support sales in winning new business that can maximise margin at a site level Pricing • Advise team of min price and margin levels on enquiries and tenders through consultation with key stakeholders, • Monitor conversion rate of price offers to business wins and propose solution to achieve better competitiveness, • Achieve best margin whilst considering market price and customer position, • Establish and maintain up to date comprehensive price list including CS team training where appropriate on interpretation and application., • Work with the divisional commercial team to ensure margin opportunities are exploited, pricing is consistent and accurate commercial information is relayed to site and the division. Stock Management • Managing and controlling finished goods and aged stocks, • Effectively manage factory overload situations by utilising the Group and external suppliers to ensure the factory plan achieves all customer commitments., • Manage and control risk stocking Customer Service Management • Full ownership of the leadership and performance of the site customer service team ensuring customers services act effectively to maximise customer margin opportunities, • To ensure key customers are provided KBI’s reports on a monthly basis, • To help ensure quotes and prices are controlled and customers are given best in class responses., • To ensure customer contracts are in place ensuring best in class commercial governance, • To own and control estimates and their analysis to support cost versus actual processes, drive weekly and monthly reviews