General Manager, Flexible Packaging Egypt

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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Flexible packaging segment has a turnover of €1.167 million (2021). The business has today about 8,400 employees and has 27 manufacturing sites across 22 countries. Our Flexible Packaging innovative products are used to draw consumer attention and ensure competitive advantage of a brand. In the fast and ever-changing lifestyles of most people today, we help to ensure that the products are packaged well enough to preserve the products' state, extend its shelf life and induce consumers to purchase. We produce state-of-the-art packaging solutions for food, beverage or personal and home care products, with high quality standards.

As General Manager, Flexible Packaging Egypt you will have overall responsibility for our Flexible Packaging business across two sites in Cairo, Egypt. As General Manager, you will be responsible for planning, organizing, leading and controlling the business in order to deliver the required growth, profit, working capital, cash flow objectives in. Reporting into Vice President Flexible Packaging MEA, you will be part of the Flexible Packaging MEA regional Leadership team. You will be based in Cairo, Egypt.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
As part of the role as well as part of the Flexible Packaging MEA regional leadership team, ensure that Huhtamaki code of conduct, values, ethical standards and legal compliance is followed and adhered to across whole organization and in all activities- Establishing and implementing a 3-5-year strategy designed to maximize growth and financial value of the business unit- Strategic and operational guidance of business unit and overseeing the day-to-day operations- Ensuring sustainable talent supply, performance, development, and engagement- Maintaining effective market insight and customer relationships to ensure market protection, sustainable innovation and growth and improved performance for Huhtamaki- Enforcing cross-business units collaboration- Planning, aligning, communication & enforcing budget, turnover and result plans- Responsibility for Product, Production and Sales strategy in line with further development of market & growth endeavors- Supporting Key Account Management and customer relations both with Global and Local Accounts, ensuring commercial excellence- Promoting innovation and development of new products and markets- Ensuring world class health and safety practices and procedures- Driving continuous improvement- Managing financial performance, budgeting, and monthly reporting to segment leadership with Finance teams- Pro-active participation in further evolvement of Huhtamaki Strategy- Building a high-performance culture grounded in the company values Care, Dare and Deliver

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
To thrive in the role, ideally you have:
- Proven experience of leading and having full business responsibility for a commercial, complex, high-quality, make to order manufacturing organization- Significant people leadership experience of large teams within a multi-site, dynamic business unit- Experience of integrating acquired businesses into existing operations and leading integration would be a benefit- Previous experience in Flexible Packaging and understanding of flexibles technologies- Proven track record of growing sales and achieving commercial business development goals- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices and Lean Management- Education to university degree level ideally within engineering or economic sciences or other comparable qualifications- Change management expertise and skills in a large complex organisation- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as influencing and negotiating skills- Very good verbal and written English language skills, Arabic language skills seen as beneficial- Willingness to travel

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

The opportunity to manage sizeable and transforming business unit within a large, global business where sustainability is at the core of our strategy. You will get to work with experienced, engaged colleagues and stakeholders who are passionate about delivering high-quality service and products to our customers.

Join us to shape the future together