Senior Director, Fort Smith Operations

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Location:

Fort Smith, Arkansas, US

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Pernod Ricard is a global premium spirits and wine company. We're the team behind leading brands such as ABSOLUT® Vodka, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Malibu®, Kahlúa® Liqueur, Beefeater® Gin, and Avión™ Tequila, as well as many more superior wines and exquisite champagnes! Working at Pernod Ricard is all about igniting conviviality in all that we do. Derived from the French word, convivial ité...it

means human connection, authenticity, friendly, and jovial. Conviviality is energy and spirit with a splash of je ne sais quoi and is a core philosophy around how we live and work at Pernod Ricard. Here, we are team players, dream makers, trailblazers, movers and (cocktail) shakers. We have a passion for living life to the fullest, making new friends every day, and realizing our potential as people and as a business!

The salary range for this role, based in Fort Smith is $  to $ . The range will vary if outside of this location. Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a candidate's experience, skills against internal peers and against the scope and responsibilities of the position.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Sr. Director, Operations to support our Fort Smith manufacturing location. This role is critical to establish strategic direction and action plans for Bottling, Material Handling, Engineering/Maintenance and factory system to support the site and regional strategy. The Sr. Director will partner to ensure the site is adhering to regulatory and compliance, export operations, and logistics execution.

This role will work to ensure compliance and excellence in Customer Service, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Product, Safety, Environmental and Employee Health & Safety. This senior leadership position will be responsible for challenging existing norms, leading change initiatives and delivering projects on time and within budget. The role will focus on developing organizational and people capabilities to maximize business objectives and results, ensure sustainable succession planning and employee engagement.

Alongside with team development the role will have a strong focused on continuous improvement, cross functional communication and cooperation between functions to maximize site opportunity and profitability.

The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of manufacturing operations and supply chain with a proven track record of high levels of effective partnership across a cross functional team. This individual is expected to foster continuous transformation, shaping processes and culture that together improves the organization's operational effectiveness as well as its capacity for change while maintaining/enhancing employee engagement. The Sr.

Director, Operations for Fort Smith will be responsible for end-to-end operations enabling organizational growth ambitions.

• Lead/coach salaried leadership, through creation of development plans tailored to individual employees, towards continuous improvement to enable high-performing team which maximize engagement and performance.
• Build high performance work groups focused on customer service and delivering results. Inspires and motivates employees to achieve performance levels and potential through highly developed coaching skills, communication skills and by ensuring proper development training.
• Develop department culture that…