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Interim Operations & Manufacturing Leadership.
Help stabilise your Operations Teams
Start optimising their performance.
Leading them on a path which delivers your plans.
Ready to hand over when you have a permanent solution.
Prevent Your Operations Output From Getting Worse; Make Outputs & Deliveries Predictable
Making Your Operations As Productive, Efficient, & Effective As Possible
Enable Your Operations Team To Deliver Your Business Growth Targets
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Interim Operations Director – Manufacturing
Mark holds a Master’s degree in Manufacturing Systems Management after gaining a BEng in Manufacturing Engineering.
He’s worked across manufacturing in both Blue Chip and family-owned SMEs.
Mark has a considerable depth and breadth of experience across the manufacturing sector.
Depth comes from having roles as a Team Leader, Supervisor, Department Manager up to Operations Director. He has worked with teams in businesses from £4m to £4.5bn, with the majority in the £10-100m.
He’s been an Industrial Engineer and Project Manager. Led Procurement & Planning in manufacturing firms. He’s designed and delivered Capex projects in Production & Processing lines, Automated Warehousing, Robotics and improved Plant Layouts.
The breadth of his experience comes from working across a wide range of industry sectors.
Designed Strategy & Target Operating Models to deliver significant revenues (£10m+) for organisations. Challenging existing Strategies, Market and Customer understanding.
An effective communicator, comfortable at home with senior execs and “sleeves rolled up on the shop floor”. Mark has tackled training, apprenticeship, H&S issues and bullying in organisations.
He has extensive knowledge of Digital and Data Marketing, AI; Managed CRM, Data Analysis & Strategy Insights teams within the B2C and B2B finance & retail industries.
Mark is a Adjunct Lecturer at Leeds University Business School. He presents an annual lecture on Improvement in Manufacturing & Supply Chains at Leeds University Business School. Over 4,000 students have attended this since 2010.
He has also contributed to articles and published books on improvement.
He challenges clients to improve Productivity and deliver at least +20% from their existing resources. Same staff, same machinery, same buildings. There are examples of 30-50% more delivered.
The 20%+ improvement is achieved by using a combination of proven improvement techniques.
Combine this with his extensive knowledge of all the other activities that Operations managers need to carry out in manufacturing environments. These include H&S, MRP, Stock Levels, ERP, Performance Management, KPIs.
Since 2010 we’ve taken well over 4,000 people through our Lean Manufacturing and Management workshop thanks to the Operations and Supply Chain team at Leeds University Business School.
What are the benefits of bringing in an Interim Operations Manager?
Don’t just take our word, have a read of the article below.
The Benefits of Bringing in a Professional Interim Director or Manager
If you’re after a service where we provide consulting then perhaps our Manufacturing Consulting service for your factory or manufacturing plant maybe of interest.
You’ve got a gap in your leadership team, you need an instant fix. Whether you call it an interim Manufacturing Manager, Interim Director of Operations or Interim Operations Manager, the effect is the same. You need to ensure your manufacturing team keeps moving forward. We find businesses have to deal with 1 of 3 common issues;
Recruiting an Interim Operational Director to suit your stage of the journey could be key to keeping your business moving. It will be key to developing the potential.
What experience should your Interim Operations Manager bring? The experience you’ll want will depend on the problem you want them to help you solve.
Think about what you want the Interim Manufacturing Director or Manager to get done. Match their skills, their experience to what you need to deliver. Think about these two first before you worry about hiring from the same sector.
At least 3 months, 12 months at the most.
If it's cover for illness or an emergency situation, you should consider a period of at least 3 months. If it is while you hire, then think at least 6 months. The advert, interviews and notice period means you'll need someone in place for at least 6 months. Add in a handover period and it could be longer.
Need the Interim Operations Director to review your factory and come up with and start an improvement plan? You'll need to be thinking about 12 months to allow them enough time.
Think about what you want from the person.
Do you want them to keep the factory the same, not change anything? Keep it running day to day as it has been.
Do you want them to address a specific challenge, costs, on time delivery, quality, skills development?
Do you want them to coach or develop you existing managers?
Help you grow?
Be clear in what you want them to deliver, as you would be with any new hire.
Your business is growing, you want to scale the Operations, the existing team need help. An Interim Operations Director can help by bringing their experience to your business for a short period. Make sure they can demonstrate managing and scaling Operations for growth that suits your plans.
Interim Operations Directors provide experience in managing the challenges of mergers and acquisitions.
They provide guidance, help and advice for Start-ups / PE & venture capital-backed businesses. They can bring extensive sector experience to new ventures.
The most important skill will be Communication. They must liaise between their own teams and other departments. Key skills will include resource allocation, process mapping, and basic project management. Other skills will include the ability to quickly learn new technical processes. Problem identification and solving skills with others should be a core skill.
The best Interim Operations Directors will have a breadth of sector experience to use. They will bring knowledge of MRP, ERP, Production Planning, Performance Management and HR.
Want guidance on how to OPTIMISE, deliver MORE from your existing equipment and staff? Want to discover how to deliver on-time, every time?
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Need help to stabilise the Operational output in your business? Need someone with experience and the ability to roll sleeves up, step in quickly and start delivering? Help to stabilise your operations before making improvements?
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Want to up-skill your Operations staff? want to give them production skills that will enable YOU to deliver MORE? Our Lean training WILL BE built around your business needs, using the right techniques that will improve your business.
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You want to grow your Business. You want your Operations to be developed to deliver the revenue targets. You want your Manufacturing & Production teams to develop the skills and behaviours to take you further. You're not sure which technology, systems to invest that will set you on the path. Our Operations Strategy Consulting has been developed to work for you, guiding on the way path forward.
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You have a great team. They know you're products well, have given you great service. Manufacturing management is a challenge though, they need to know about MRP, ERP, HR, H&S Budgets, Performance Management. You're not sure what you need to do.
Check out our Mentoring & Coaching service, pick up the phone - it's free to have a chat.
We help you re-invigorate and optimise your processes; speeding them up, increasing Business Capacity & Compliance. Giving you agile processes that will deliver your business growth.
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Want Manufacturing advice? Not sure what you need to do, whether Lean is for you? Want to know if new processes or investment would be better, whether MRP would deliver what you need?
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Read the comments below, do you hear these or similar in your organisation?
They’re the conversations we hear every day when we are out and about starting with clients. Clients who are discovering the benefits of Lean Management.
Recognise any of them? sound familiar?
You might have 1,2,3 or more similar conversations every day or week. Conversations which take up more and more of your time. Conversations about not having enough people, skills, late deliveries or price rises you can’t offset.
The challenge of getting work completed, reports, and orders delivered On-Time, Every Time, is one we know can be solved, we know how to help you do this.
The challenge of understanding how you can get more skills, more of the skills you need into your business is one we know how to help with as well.
The challenge of reducing and understanding costs is the one Lean was designed for.
Lean Management techniques combined with solid Operational Management training will give you the tools to deliver On-Time, Every Time.
It also makes sense that after you’ve learnt to deliver On-Time, Every Time, the next step is to grow your business.
Deliver more using the techniques you’ve embedded in your lean management organisation.
Deliver more with the skills you’ve embedded in your lean, agile, responsive organisation.
Mark Greenhouse – UK Interim Operations Director. 30 years Experienced in Manufacturing and Improvement in Food to Engineering Call today 07712 669396 to discuss your Operational challenges.
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