General Manager Are you an experienced operational leader within a high-quality food manufacturing environment? Do you have extensive experience in chilled, short shelf-life food manufacturing? Would you like to join a business that values its people and looks to develop in house talent to unlock potential? MacGregor Black are partnering with a Food Manufacturing Business on the search for a General Manager. This is a perm role based in Yorkshire. Key Responsibilities: Provide clear manufacturing leadership that drives culture and efficiency improvements. Develop and lead the implementation of change management initiatives, whilst leading the SLT to play its key part in the delivery excellence, impacting the wider business. Define and gain agreement for all budgets and forecasts, ensuring your sites delivers / beats its overall financial commitments. Responsibility for operational performance. Provide clear manufacturing objectives, vision, and leadership to the site. Accountable for the ongoing delivery of a strong set of KPI results for the site, including cost, safety, service, quality, gross losses and absenteeism. Define and gain agreement for all budgets and forecasts, ensuring the Site delivers / beats its overall financial commitments. Ensure the Site has appropriate processes and systems in place to drive best practice manufacturing standards with a focus on developing and embedding LEAN manufacturing. What are we looking for? Successful track record of delivery in previous team leadership roles is essential. Experience of leading cross functional teams in the consumer sector with experience of high-speed production. Exposure to a number of different functions and evidence of being able to apply knowledge in other areas. Commercially astute with the ability to see the broader business context gained through experience of working with commercial functions. Strong influencing and communication skills to deliver results through others. Commercially astute with the ability to see the broader business context gained through experience of working with commercial functions. Strong influencing and communication skills to deliver results through others. Proven track record in developing people and teams to create high performance. Salary – circa £115k package Please contact Rob Blackburn today for further information.