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Executive leadership role with accountability for delivering Vitaco’s strategic Production pillar and for shaping the performance, capability, and future readiness of our operations across the group. A pivotal role offering significant scope, influence, and visibility across the organisation. A potential successor pathway for the Chief Operations Officer (COO).
Job Responsibility:
Delivering Vitaco’s strategic Production pillar
Shaping the performance, capability, and future readiness of operations across the group
End-to-end responsibility for manufacturing across multiple Auckland sites, engineering, warehousing (across four Auckland sites) of raw and packaging materials, and domestic and international distribution of finished goods
Translating strategy into disciplined execution while building capability across a complex, multi-site environment
Evolving Vitaco’s operations, including the advancement of automation, digital capability and the considered use of AI to enhance planning, manufacturing performance and decision-making
Building and sustaining a healthy, values-led culture across operations, role-modelling Vitaco’s values (We Care, We Act, We Succeed) and fostering an engaged, high-performing workforce
Requirements:
Senior operations or manufacturing executive with a strong track record in complex, regulated environments such as supplements, health food, sports nutrition or adjacent FMCG manufacturing
Experience leading large, multi-site operations
Experience managing significant cost bases and delivering transformation through people, systems, automation and technology, ideally within a trans-Tasman or similarly scaled market context
Commercially astute, operationally credible and comfortable operating at enterprise level
Personal alignment with health, wellbeing and values-led leadership is essential