Digital Production Manager

Job Description

Graham & Brown has gone from being a wallpaper manufacturer to an interior lifestyle brand driven by high quality products and exceptional customer experience and marketing. An opportunity has now arisen in the pivotal role of Digital Production Manager to lead, manage and develop digital production. Based in Padiham you will join us on a full-time,permanent basis and in return,you will receive a competitive salary of £35,417 to £51,505 per annum, depending on experience.Graham & Brown has had design and colour at the heart of our business for over 75 years. With leading brands across the market from the Graham & Brown brand itself to household names like Superfresco Easy and licenses such as Laura Ashley,Joules, Cath Kidston to name but a few, our offer stretches across products from wallpaper, paint, fabric, curtains, blinds, bed linen and wall art. Our business is built on leading-edge design, across our international businesses and markets, and we putthe customer at the heart of everything we do. We have been recognised as a “Cool Brand” on seven successive occasions. As a 3rd generation, family run business, we have the luxury of freedom to implement fresh ideas and to form great working relationshipswith all our colleagues across the business. We are proudly a carbon neutral business with a real commitment to sustainability.We offer a range of excellent benefits for our Digital Production Manager, including:

• Self managed time – determine your working schedule and holidays to suit
• Birthday day off
• Generous staff discount on all Graham & Brown products, up to 60%
• Access to colleague discount portal
• Generous pension, totalling 10%
• Life Assurance
• Free parking
• Use of company pool cars for company business
• Regular Company social events, brought to us by our very own Fun Squad!

Our Digital Production Manager will have the following responsibilities:

• Deliver improved productivity through collaborative continuous improvement processes
• Actively collaborate and support new product development and new product introduction
• Define schedules and monitor to ensure maintained and lead times are consistently met
• Develop and then manage digital production budget
• Working collaboratively with the wider business ensure regulatory and certification compliance including but not limited to ISO, FSC, SMETA and waste
• Ensure all materials and consumables adhere to defined quality tolerances and are readily available, in line with schedule
• Sustain quality standards across digital production
• Lead problem solving activities including route cause analysis to remove blockers impacting product and/or process performance standards
• Ensure all equipment within digital production is maintained and calibrated
• Working collaboratively with the H&S Manager, ensure that all the H&S legislative requirements are fulfilled, ensuring a safe place of work for all colleagues within the digital production area

Experience and skills required by our Digital Production Manager:

• Proven leadership experience with responsibility for product, process, and people management
• Collaborative leadership behaviours and a willingness to learn
• Effective cost and efficiency management
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Continual improvement and innovation techniques
• A clear understanding of the Company’s strategy and culture goals
• Experience of health & safety regulations and legislation
• Experience of human resources procedures and legislation
• The ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners
• The ability to problem solve and conduct route cause analysis
• Excellent coordination and planning capability
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to use good judgement

If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, click ‘Apply’ now to be considered as our Digital Production Manager we’d love to hear from you!