Operations Manager

Are you a quality focused and forward-thinking professional who possesses a passion for management? We are a leading furniture manufacturer looking for a highly-motivated and visionary Operations Manager to lead our innovative team for a rapidly expanding group of companies at the forefront of the upholstery industry.

In your role as an Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the smooth running of daily operations and implementation and development of process improvements while prioritizing quality excellence and outstanding customer -service.

The role involves the planning and co-ordinating of long
- term initiatives for success across various teams and departments. You will guide various improvements and solutions, while analyzing budgets and costs.
- Prioritizing quality excellence by leading processes to ensure the ongoing high-quality standards are maintained while providing for the best customer service experience at every step.
- Setting schedules, reviewing financial statements, co-ordinating across manufacturing, IT, Human resources and finance departments
- Establishing a regular work cadence with the manufacturing team to establish output measures, targets and communicating performance and improvements while working to align processes across multiple facilities
- Prioritizing orders and aligning procurement and shipping processes to meet delivery dates on time.
- Developing/validating and/or systemizing the costing and pricing process to support the goal of minimizing the oversight requirements from ownership.
- Leading monthly reporting meetings with ownership to review operational and financial results, focusing on trends or benchmarks. This should include the analysis of results of product margins and overall profitability against the targets or benchmarks and comparisons across entities or product categories.
- Review fixed costs and overhead to understand potential exposures related to an economic downturn, providing recommendations/options for cost reduction and flexibility for ongoing operations.
- Improving the understanding of the costs to procure product, manufacture and deliver (inputs to process to sale) and working on identifying areas for potential cost reduction or efficiency.
- Develop forecasts or future financial views to help support forward looking discussions
- Lead and co-ordinate implementation of IT system, upgrades and enhancements to support the needs of the business
- Connecting the Operations-Manufacturing-Finance and IT teams by establishing and sharing information among the teams that may be important to support the departments work processes (for example: cycle counts, relevant cost info, IT data and volumes and establishing relevant key performance indicators across teams)
- Managing and leadership over the Human Resources Department, including the recruitment of new talent to support the teams as required.
- Streamlining vendor invoices, packing slips or other expenses or approvals to alleviate administrative workload.
- Supporting strategic planning, reviews and business cases, in order to grow or optimize business growth.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
- Excellent analytical, leadership, organizational, verbal and written communication skills.
- 5 -10 years of relevant experience in a similar role within a mid size manufacturing organization.
- Working knowledge of ERP systems.
- Bachelors’ degree in operations management or related field

JOB TYPES:
Full-time, Permanent

BENEFITS:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Vision care

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Vision care

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Woodbridge, ON L4L 8N6: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person