Plant Manager

It's an exciting time to be a part of Frutarom We are looking for our next Operations Plant Manager to join our team.

Our ability to meet the constantly evolving needs of consumers through innovative and comprehensive solutions ensures our customers a totally satisfying experience. Frutarom creates, develops, manufactures and markets an extensive variety of high quality flavors and fine ingredients for customers in the food, beverage, functional food, flavor, fragrance, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and cosmetic industries. We are fueled by passion and enhanced by the technology and insights of IFF. Our vision is to be the Preferred Partner for Tasty and Healthy Success. Our vision reflects our commitment to delivering the tastiest and healthiest solutions to our customers.

**About You**

As the Plant Manager, you will bring 5+ years of experience working in operations, managing essential functions of planning, production, scheduling, sales, and customer service. You will have knowledge of organizational effectiveness and management with the ability to act independently or with little to no supervision. You will have excellent communication skills to communicate to senior executives and employees at all levels of the organization as well as problem solving abilities to develop solutions to complex problems.

**Job Requirements**:
**To be successful in this role, you will manage these essential functions**:
**Planning / Production / Scheduling**:

- Planning weekly production schedule both within the internal manufacturing process as well as coordination with spray drying partners and freight forwarders.
- Procurement of manufacturing, packaging, shipping and plant supplies
- Inventory management of incoming raw materials and finished products
- Timely creation of production batches followed by processing the same into the system prior to getting into a backorder situation
- QC sampling to internal lab for routine analyses as well as outside laboratories for generation of Certificates of Analysis of finished products

**Sales / Customer Service**:

- Confirming sales orders, coordinating specific lot numbers for various nutrients and different licensee customers, packaging instructions, release, and shipping of the orders on a timely manner
- Order Entry, Monthly closing, Accounts Receivables / Payables transactions and postings into financial software
- Invoicing and tracking timely payments of invoices
- Responding to customer enquiries on purchase orders and products

**Other duties**:

- Approval of payables, check signing and banking transactions
- Assisting Human in administration issues
- Month reporting of sales information

**Required Skills**:

- Proven work experience as plant manager
- Adequate knowledge of organizational effectiveness and operations management
- Budget development and oversight experience
- Familiarity with business and financial principles and practices
- Working knowledge of budgets, forecasting and metrics
- Basic IT skills (databases, MS Office etc.)
- An excellent problem solver who can develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Ability to think and act independently with little or no supervision.
- Requires communication skills necessary to communicate effectively to senior executives, and with both employees at all levels of the organization.

**Required Experience**
- Bachelor Degree in business administration, commerce, management, industrial technology or industrial engineering is required.
- Must have at least 5 years of experience.
- Planning experience