Group Manufacturing Director | International PHAR Leadership
Córdoba, Spain On-site
€110,000–€135,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
This role is accountable for the operational, financial, and strategic performance of all European manufacturing facilities, with additional responsibility for coordinating effectively with the group's Asian manufacturing partners. You will report directly to the Group CEO, and your primary objective will be to achieve or exceed budgeted performance across every facility while maintaining safe, efficient, cost-competitive, and customer-focused operations. This is a senior operational leadership role suited to someone with a strong engineering and manufacturing background and proven multi-site leadership experience. The role demands the energy and organizational capability to lead a demanding international manufacturing operation, with frequent business reviews and regular international travel across Europe and Asia.
What you'll bring
- Proven international, multi-site manufacturing leadership across Europe, with responsibility for operational, financial, and strategic performance
- An engineering degree (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or equivalent) is required
- A demonstrable track record of improving productivity, cost, quality, safety, and profitability through Lean manufacturing, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
- Experience managing large operational budgets and manufacturing P&L
- Experience managing capital investment projects, including justification, execution, and post-investment review
- A commercially astute leader capable of influencing executive stakeholders and leading cross-functional collaboration across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, and Finance
- Experience coordinating with manufacturing partners or suppliers outside your home region
- Experience presenting operational and financial performance to CEO or Board-level stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills, with fluent spoken and written English
- Strong leadership and people development skills, including experience building succession plans for key roles
- Willingness and ability to undertake extensive international travel across Europe and Asia
- Experience within the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration (PHAR) sector, valves, fluid control, or related industrial or automotive Tier 1 manufacturing is helpful but not required