Spreadshirt’s facility in Teplice (CZ) is opening a position as …

General Manager (f/m/d) in Teplice 42 Pod Dolní drahou 105 417 42 Czech Republic

Department: Management
The primary responsibilities of this role are to build, lead, scale and continuously improve our Operations department, management teams and processes. To ensure best in class customer satisfaction through excellent quality and fast shipment by focusing on leadership and innovation while achieving the highest productivity standards.

The Production Director is responsible to support company goals by providing a customer “WOW” experience while operating efficiently to maintain a supportable operation. As Spreadshirt’s people are our most valuable asset, the person filling this role should be motivated to facilitate an atmosphere of passion for delighting customers and a dedication to getting the job done in both a start-up and seasonal environment.

Tasks in Detail

  • Plan, coordinate, supervise and control the manufacturing operations, ensuring cost effectiveness, high quality and adherence to production output plans
  • Work in a team environment to drive continuous improvement, empowering supervisors and team members to create solutions to problems and supporting them in getting these ideas implemented
  • Establish and monitor operational excellence and quality standards as well as incentive schemes to incent the results we need
  • Continually re-evaluating operation facility capacities and technologies in order to remain cost effective and competitive
  • Develop policies in congruence with company goals and execution of these on all levels of the production process
  • Develop, documenting and communicating structures and procedures
  • Develop best practices to share improvements with all global Spreadshirt operation sites
  • Lead process innovation while knowing the customer to continuously increase customer satisfaction and productivity
  • Ability to adjust seasonal variation and evaluate customer needs
  • Manage production equipment and facilities

Our Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Operations in a manufacturing environment
  • Professional background in the factory operations (production, planning, quality)
  • Strong experience with manufacturing processes set up in accordance with the Czech legislation
  • Strong business-oriented mindset with excellent management skills
  • Communication skills, to be able to communicate on all levels from shop floor to headquarter
  • Ability to communicate with cross-functional business partners and the Czech authorities as hygiene, the environment department etc.
  • Experience with driving meritocracy in production plant and willingness to make changes if needed
  • Strong base in fundamentals of safety, quality and GMP
  • Experience with managing of financial performance of the plant, ability to interpret financial data and statistical reports for the Czech Statistical Office
  • Experience in applying lean manufacturing concepts - 5S, Waste elimination, Kaizen
  • Experience from an international company would be a big plus
  • Knowledge of Czech and English, preferable Polish or Slovak
  • Preferred skills:
    • Strong team-building & leadership skills
    • Strong communicator across all levels
    • Strong experience with driving of performance management culture
    • Quantitative and efficiency-oriented perspective for use in a numbers-driven business
    • Proven strong interest in collaborative teamwork and change management experience

Our Offer

  • Interesting and challenging job in an international company
  • Frequent professional trainings
  • Attractive compensation

About Spreadshirt

Spreadshirt is the self-expression global e-commerce company. It empowers people to express themselves through creating, discovering, and selling clothing and accessories with messages they want the world to hear. Companies like Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube enable self-expression in the digital world but people don’t have the same opportunities in the real world where the need still exists. Spreadshirt’s three approaches – create your own, marketplace and shops – provide limitless opportunity for on-person self-expression. Founded in 2002, Spreadshirt is available in 12 languages, operates five global production sites and ships to over 160 countries. In 2017, it hit global revenue of $120 million, printed more than 4.8 million items, and had over 80,000 selling partners.

Contact

Silvia Lauterbach

Recruiting Specialist
+49 (0)341 59400-5249

We look forward to receiving your application in English or German and by e-mail: jobs@spreadshirt.net. Please state reference number V00-948 and don't forget to let us know about salary expectations and your earliest starting date.

P.S.: We are not too keen on super straight CVs, extreme adaptive capacities and yea-sayer qualities. What we want are characters full of ideas and drive — no matter how old you are, where you come from and whatever your preferences. Show us what you've got!

This job offer was posted on 2019-02-20. .

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