Role: Production Manager - Print on Demand
Location: Altrincham, WA15 0PS.
About THG:
THG is one of the world’s fastest growing and largest online retailers. We have over a decade of experience building and growing brands in the Beauty and Wellness sectors, in over 160 markets. We create brilliant digital brand experiences and our in-house team design, develop and build a bespoke proprietary technology platform that is used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Our Consumer Division is home to THG’s heritage sites and true home of the geek. Consumer includes Brands such as Zavvi, IWOOT, and Popinabox - some of Europe's largest online retailers for Licensed Merchandise, Collectables, and Gifting products.
A focus on in-house produced and exclusive products through our print on demand facility, has accelerated evolution of the sites away from traditional entertainment retailers towards growing Merchandise and Collectable markets an area we plan to continue our investment in. We are looking for a creative, innovative, and resourceful Production Manager to lead our Print Production team.
Main Responsibilities
- Ensuring safety, quality, cost and delivery requirements are met
- Strive to exceed targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis through collaborative working with the Production Management team
- Communicate effectively with the teams by utilising visual management tools, deliver production briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery
- Provide outstanding leadership to team members, including opportunities for coaching and development, to maximise work output and work quality
- Look to increase efficiencies and improve Quality Standards wherever possible
- Ensure non-conformances are challenged and countermeasures are agreed and implemented through identification of root cause and effective preventative action
- Lead and motivate the team to create a high-performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced
- Take responsibility for process improvement and Proactively identify and lead process improvement initiatives
- Monitor costs associated with print operations and review weekly with view to reducing costs where possible
- Work effectively with support functions to progress issues regarding production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications
- Work with other areas of the business to assist with long term resource planning
- Work with Technical Engineering to ensure assets are well maintained and serviced in an efficient manner to result in as little disruption to operation as possible
- Manage Relationships with external suppliers to ensure onsite support provided is optimal
Requirements
To be considered for this role you will need to demonstrate that you have
- Experience managing, motivating, coaching and developing high performing teams in print production manufacturing
- A good understand of Lean Six Sigma principals and experience in implementing continuous improvement in a production environment
- Exceptional leadership skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Good understanding of H amp; S and HR
- Capable of analysing Data amp; results-oriented
- Strong bias for making decision
For this role you will be working Monday - Friday Days most weeks but flexibility is required as you will also have direct reports on night shift that you will need to have contact time with.
Benefits
We offer:
- Competitive salary
- Employee discounts
- Bonus Scheme
- Company pension scheme
Unfortunately because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, we are sometimes unable to respond to every application. If you haven't heard from us within 14 days of applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions within THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.
THG is committed to creating a diverse amp; inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.