Position: General Manager
Location: Malaysia, Johor
Company: Precision Plastic Injection Molding & Assembly
JOB SUMMARY
Reporting directly to the President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the General Manager (GM) will manage all operational aspects, from injection molding to assembly and fulfillment, for the Malaysia site in the Company’s Group. Besides the operations P&L responsibility, along with zero-defect quality and assurance of supply for total customer satisfaction, the GM will help establish the future of a digitalized and automated operations, that is sustainable for current and future demands of target medical and life science customers.
Being a General Manager, the incumbent is both an empowering manager and hands-on coach for the manufacturing operations team, plus support the CEO by being a team player to work collaboratively and meet the objectives of other operations in the Group, to proactively mitigate shifts in value-chains and disruptions of geopolitical matters, in order to remain highly relevant and competitive to strategic customers. The GM will also help the CEO develop the Malaysia management and talent pool bench to become high value-added and high performance oriented.
Responsibilities
- Direct and manage manufacturing operations to meet financial, productivity and zero-defect goals.
- Assimilate operations financial targets, along with comprehensive CAPEX proposals, for business growth.
- Support business priorities and operational transformation, to cascade plans throughout all operations.
- Implement effectively new operations layout, processes, and transformations to optimize productivity gains.
- Responsible for total customer satisfaction, for phases from business generation to product end-of-life.
- Support total customer satisfaction and account management teams for operations alignment to customers.
- Plan capability-capacity to meet customer needs, with best-in-class business and operation processes.
- Provide inputs to help in agreements and terms of contract with prospective customers to mitigate any risk.
- Manage both existing and new complex projects with alignment to Group strategic business priorities.
- Facilitate problem-solving and crisis management activities to help in complex high-level decision-making.
- Manage staffing, development, and performance evaluation to uphold team competencies and bench depth.
- Lead managers to follow organizational strategies and ensure compliance to good corporate governance.
- Establish processes for the management of non-compliance to local governance requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Biomedical / Science (Physics, Biology) or relevant discipline.
- Minimum 12 years operations experience in Medical / Precision Engineering / Plastics related industry.
- Minimum 5 years of management experience in the precision medical or health devices manufacturing industry serving US/EU-MNC operations.
- Proven cross-functional experience as an executive or senior management position.
- In-depth knowledge of precision biomedical manufacturing and services.
- Working experience with government agencies, ISO and FDA regulatory approvals.
- Strong understanding of biomedical device manufacturing protocols and validations.
- Proficiency in English and Malay.
- Proven leadership capabilities, and ability to foster teamwork across organizations.
- Commitment to execute plans, achieving goals, adapting changes, with high integrity in business.
- Solid understanding of industry value-chains from design to manufacturing and fulfillment of services.
- Strong ability to motivate teams, delegate responsibility, analyze problems quickly and communicate clearly.
- Ambitious and self-motivated, with an enthusiastic and positive mindset to achieve demanding business goals.
