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Director of Consumer Domestic

We are seeking a dynamic Director of Consumer Domestic to lead our Sales, Marketing, and Commercial functions. Reporting to the Chief Operating and Consumer Officer, you will develop category strategies, build strong customer relationships, and drive business growth across domestic markets. This role involves close collaboration with key teams including Supply Chain, R&D, HR, and Finance to meet our business targets.

• Lead the development of the category strategy and business plan to drive domestic market growth.
• Build and manage key customer relationships and oversee private label tendering.
• Collaborate with Marketing to manage product portfolios and pricing strategies.
• Drive promotional and merchandising initiatives.
• Lead a cross-functional team, ensuring KPI management and strategy execution.
• Drive product innovation working with R&D ensuring your category team are identifying the customer needs and meeting those needs with insights and data backed products.
• Foster innovation and talent development, coaching and growing your team.
  

• Proven leadership experience in the FMCG sector with a focus on driving results.
• Strong commercial acumen, experience in managing customer/product portfolios.
• Expertise in marketing, customer experience, and innovation.
• Strategic thinker with strong leadership, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
• Experience in team development and a commitment to fostering growth.

• Provides leadership across the organisation to foster a positive Health and Safety culture.
• Develop and implement the sites Health and Safety strategy and associated programmes and initiatives that improve the Health and Safety outcomes in alignment with the companies objectives.
• Reporting of site H&S metrics & delivering on key targets.
• Ensure H&S procedures and Site Safety Statement are in compliance with Regulatory requirements.
• Complete thorough investigation, root cause analysis and CAPA for all significant incidents, reportable accidents, dangerous occurrences and major property damage.
• Champion Zero Harm initiative to improve the health and safety culture through training and awareness campaigns.
• Ensure that safety audits are carried out in conjunction with the relevant Area Managers in order to inspect and check plant, processes, procedures & practices.
• Conduct and implement programs relating to risk assessments (new product development and trials / new equipment and engineering requirements).
• Ensure that there is H&S involvement in pre-start up safety reviews and equipment walk-downs to identify relevant safety items.
• Review and revise employee, visitor and contractor safety induction programs.
• Provide and deploy a training strategy that covers off all the needs of the internal departments onsite.
• Keep up to date with new legislation & standards.
• Represent the Company during outside Agency Audits/Inspections and liaise as required with the Health & Safety Authority.
• Establish, co-ordinate and manage site Health and Safety committees.

• Primary Degree in Engineering, Science or equivalent, in conjunction with a recognized Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety.
• Chartered member of IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) or equivalent qualification would be an advantage.
• A minimum of 4 years’ experience at H&S Manager level within an FMCG manufacturing environment, ideally food manufacturing.
• Experience and proven capabilities in developing and implementing world class health and safety management systems to ISO45001 standards in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to deliver training modules to all levels of the organisation
• Experience in developing and implementing behavioural safety programmes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• A demonstrated ability to communicate and influence at management and operator levels within a manufacturing organization.

Job Summary

Knowledge | Experience | Skills

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Business Administration, Communications, Marketing, or related field).
• Computer proficiency.
• Must have excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills—including presentation and negotiation proficiency.
• Experience in servicing a wide variety of both internal and external customers in the manufacturing environment, with a good understanding of our operations and technical understanding of our products.
• Medical device industry experience is essential and a very strong preference for injection moulding contract manufacturing industry experience.
• Sales, quoting and negotiation skills are required—must have history of successful selling, quoting and negotiating positive outcomes.
• Needs to show a strong history of continuous personal development to improve business, technical, sales and overall skills.
  

Overview of Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Leads development and execution of global account management and growth plans in Europe.
• Serves as regional point of contact for internal/external client initiatives.
• Oversees Commercial P&L, ensuring profitability targets are met; escalates issues when necessary.
• Collaborates with global operations to address discrepancies in manufacturing performance.
• Aligns with global account team on strategy, ensuring timely and budgeted completion of tasks.
• Manages confidential information and upholds high ethical standards.
• Supports global sales initiatives and secures strategic business within assigned accounts.
• Builds relationships with key stakeholders and coordinates client visits.
• Travels to client sites to address needs and explore new business opportunities.
• Works with customers and internal teams on budgeting, forecasting, and new technology applications.
• Manages pricing adjustments and oversees quoting processes in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Serves as the primary escalation point for manufacturing, logistics, and commercial issues.
• Regularly updates internal management and external customers on account status.
• Leads project kick-off meetings and ensures follow-through on customer requests.
• Focuses on personal development and attends trade shows and conferences.

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• Strategy – Executes current company strategy in Europe and Ireland. Collaborates with corporate team to develop and execute additional strategic initiatives to bring company capabilities to Europe and new capabilities to the overall company platform.
• Capital Allocation – Collaborates to allocate capital to accelerate strategy through M&A and/or organic investments.
• Revenue Growth – Develops and executes a complementary business development strategy to develop new European centric revenue streams.
• Operational Excellence – Manages existing P&Ls to deliver EBITDA growth and EBITDA margin expansion through revenue growth and operational excellence initiatives measured by KPIs related to safety, quality, on time delivery, VIP (cost savings), etc.
• Quality and Regulatory – Manages a robust quality and regulatory system and team in collaboration with corporate.
• Development and Innovation – Collaborates with commercial team to identify, prioritize and invest in capabilities to advance the customer-centric segment strategy.
• Talent and Team – Develops and attracts a trusted team to execute strategy.
• Client Engagement – Manages European commercial structure to personally have access to key strategic clients.
• Strategic Supplier Relationships – Manages European supply chain structure to personally have access to key strategic suppliers.
• Manages all budgetary and financial aspects of the company EMEA P&Ls.
• Manages all compliance and regulatory tasks in collaboration with corporate related to public company guidelines.

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience managing all aspects of the P&L for a medical device contract manufacturer or equivalent.
•  Has managed “the customer conversation to a validated state” for a net-new, single use medical device and/or medical device component in either a engineering and/or operational capacity.
• BS degree required; advanced degree (MBA) a plus.
• Multi-site manufacturing management and experience aligning regional operations with corporate business strategy required.
• Solid progressive manufacturing knowledge including Operational Excellence and related tools and KPI measurements.
•  Regulated quality and safety experience (ISO/FDA/OSHA) required.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, retain, motivate, and develop an engineering team across multiple locations. Strong talent management understanding and orientation.
• Experienced with acquisitions and relocations.
• Demonstrated success in serving as an effective leader within and across organizational boundaries.
• Supply chain, purchasing background helpful, pro-customer attitude; will interface well with customers.

• Committed to supporting company culture and possesses high integrity and ethics.
• Results oriented and collaborate management style with a positive, “can do” attitude.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization including the board of directors as required.
• Proven track record of EBITDA growth and improving organizations in leadership positions.
• Ability to travel approximately 30% to 50%.

This innovative, fast-growing, technology driven food manufacturing business has quickly established itself as a market leader within Ireland. Demand for its services is growing and their customer base continues to expand.

Purpose

As part of this growth, they are seeking to appoint a Quality Control & Compliance Manager, reporting directly to the Managing Director, with responsibility to lead on all quality aspects of this fast moving, rapidly changing and dynamic food company. You’ll oversee and improve existing ISO 22000 Food Management and ISO 14001 Environmental Management accreditations. You will also provide advice and assistance to the management & production teams across all food safety matters and initiatives.

The role requires strong attention to detail and a self-motivated approach, working on your own initiative to drive standards whilst maintaining close working relationships with the management team, suppliers, customers and regulatory bodies.

Responsibilities

Maintain and continually improve ISO 22000 and ISO 14001 certification.

HACCP

SOPs

Calibration

Documentation control

Policies (Quality, Food Safety, Allergen & Environmental)

Traceability

Compliance to I.S. 340:2007

Liaise and respond to all external audits

Lead and undertake internal audits

Role Requirements

Third level Degree in a food or relevant science discipline.

Proven experience in a quality or compliance role within a food or catering environment.

In depth knowledge of food quality, health and safety.

Strong leadership, communication and organisational skills.

A commitment to excellence, sustainability and continuous improvement.

The nature of the role and the company’s strong team-based culture means being on site 5 days per week at the Enniscorthy Head Office.

For more information on the role please contact duncan@intersearch.ie

• Put in place a strategic plan for the Production Unit and oversee its delivery collaborating with your senior peers and team members. Leverage Lean initiatives as programs and procedures are implemented, improve safety, quality and customer indicators, reduce waste, improve processes and labour efficiencies, and reduce direct operating expenses.
• Partner with Finance, HR, Quality and Production to optimise performance.
• Partner with external sites & groups within the global network to realise optimum value for the wider business.
• Manage staff levels, schedules and resources through cross-functional team relationships.
• Develop and manages Business Unit budgets.
• Nurture a risk-taking environment and encourages employees to reach for new milestones.
• Champion a strong Safety & Environmental culture.

• Communication, relationship building, coaching and developing people Operational excellence and lean thinking, with a systems mindset.
• Change management especially in area of culture. Organisational awareness and business acumen.
• Strong manufacturing line layout and flow competencies. Project management skills.
• Strategic and critical thinker Supply chain and capacity planning competencies.
• Financial management.

• Bachelor’s degree in a Manufacturing or Engineering discipline.
• At least 8/10+ years in an operations / production environment including 5+ years in a team leadership capacity.

About the job

This innovative, fast-growing, technology driven manufacturing business has quickly established itself as a market leader within Ireland. Demand for its services is growing strongly and their customer base continues to expand.

Purpose

As part of this growth, they are creating a new role, reporting directly to the Managing Director, with responsibility for running all day-to-day administration including managing the existing team of 4 office staff.

You’ll be responsible for overseeing all administrative functions in this busy commercial operation. You’ll already have worked within similar businesses, so you’ll have strong leadership and decision making skills as well as excellent attention to detail. 

The role involves close communication across the business with other department managers, and the Managing Director, but also externally, dealing directly with customers. As well as strong communication skills and the ability to multitask, you’ll quickly learn to anticipate times of high demand, be able to identify problems and ensure solutions are found and delivered. 

If you’re as happy rolling up your sleeves on day-to-day administration issues as you are working to the Managing Director and supporting your management colleagues, then this opportunity might be your next step.

The nature of the role and the company’s strong team-based culture means being on site 5 days per week at the Enniscorthy Head Office.

Responsibilities

Oversee day-to-day administrative operations to ensure productivity and optimum performance.Manage the current administration team and delegate daily & weekly tasks.Develop and implement administrative policies and procedures to improve operational efficiencyLiaise with clients as required.Ensure effective communication and coordination between the administrative team and other departments

Role Requirements

Minimum 5 years experience working in a similar role Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.Proficient in Microsoft office and especially strong on MS Excel.Strong attention to detail, delegation and administration skills.

For more information on the role please contact duncan@intersearch.ie