Share Email Opening Title General Manager - Verdant Graphics  Description We're looking to add an experienced General Manager to our Verdant Graphics team! As the General Manager, you will direct and coordinate all operations and manufacturing activities for Verdant Graphics, our full-service printing company. You'll be responsible for overseeing job estimates, customer relations, sales, graphics, supply chain, scheduliing, operations (Production Manager), quality, shipping & receiving, and R&D - all with the purpose of ensuring safe operations that meet quality, compliance, and financial requirements of our internal and external customers. Ideally, you'll have Lean/Six Sigma experience, at least 10 years in an operations role (ideally in the printing industry), 5 years in a management position, and a proven record of leading teams to meet or exceed company goals. Who We Are: It all started 35 years ago with just one brand - Design Design - which strived to create connections with people by sharing friendship, love, and memories with friends and family via greeting cards. Since then, we've expanded, launched additional brands, and challenged limits. Convivial Brands is now made up of five brands - Design Design, Verdant Graphics, Style Life, The High Five GR, and Tableau. At Convivial Brands, everything we do revolves around Making Life Better - which includes creating opportunities, products, and a culture that strives to do just that. The physical products we make help people celebrate and enhance life, sometimes in small, quaint ways, and other times in big statements. From celebrating a wedding to giving a small gift of appreciation, each brand produces an end product that intends to make life friendly, lively, and jovial - ergo making life Convivial. This is achieved through operating within our Core Values of being trustworthy, pursuing excellence, and exemplifying a team first mindset. Those three values are what guides our day-to-day operations and ensures we are moving in the right direction the right way. Our goal is to transform work from an obligation to passion! The Position: Oversees the environmental, health, and Safety (EHS) programs. Directs management of the customer service, estimating, graphics, purchasing, scheduling, production, ink, shipping, and maintenance functions. Collaborates with shared services which include accounting, IT, marketing, and human resources. Directs responsibility for the site P&L as compared to the designated budget. Ensures quality product is produced in a safe and timely manner while striving to exceed customer expectations. Leads the team on the creation, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of manufacturing plans, goals, and continuous improvement projects. Utilizes the company's ERP system to extract and analyze relevant data to drive operational improvement. Utilizes lean principles to evaluate, implement, and continuously improve production processes and procedures to drive workflow optimization and improved financial performance. Develops and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs), including labor variance, material variance, quality metrics, and on-time delivery. Manages direct reports to include performance management metrics and disciplinary action. Implements programs to ensure attainment of business plans for growth and profit. Develops and creates strategies and policies aligned with organizational goals. Provides mentoring and guidance to subordinates and other employees. Creates and implements training initiatives and programs for all manufacturing staff. Ensures that cross training efforts are completed to minimize disruptions to the business and maintain business continuity. Coaches and develops direct reports and assist with recruiting efforts to ensure the team has the depth to take on additional responsibility as the business grows. Maintains OSHA, GFSI, and GMP compliance. Research best practices and identifies new/needed skills, processes, or methods to continue to improve quality. Develops and manages the annual budgeting process with a focus on reducing product costs and improving margins year-over-year. Completes a quarterly capacity analysis in order to improve delivery and cost while maintaining customer satisfaction. Manages capital improvement projects including: Development of annual capital expenditure plan Financial justification Investigation of equipment sources Testing/performance runoffs Installation Facilitates the development and implementation of manufacturing projects required to support customer requests. Fosters an open-door environment and solutions-based team approach. Grows sales through relationship building. Performs the following supervisory responsibilities (LMA): Direct supervision of estimating/customer relations, pre-press, supply chain, scheduling, operations (Production Manager), and shipping/receiving. Collaboration with shared services (IT, Accounting, Marketing, and Human Resources) Indirect supervision of production team (press operators) Travels up to 25% of the time for leadership meetings or to meet with potential or current customers. Additional duties and sites may be assigned What's in it for you? We have exciting growth plans for Verdant Graphics! We're in the process of moving to a larger space and have invested in a new, larger machine which will significantly increase our work capacity, which means our business will be growing. You'll have the opportunity to drive that growth and have an impact on the strategic direction of Verdant Graphics. You'll have the opportunity to lead an incredibly cohesive team, and continue to grow that team as the business grows, both through external hires and through mentoring current team members into new roles. We are very culture-focused. We offer a relaxed work environment with a "Dress for your Day" policy and we value a work/life balance for our team members. Diversity and Inclusion are very important to us (our diversity and inclusion statement is below), and this means that we want our team members to bring their authentic selves to work every day and we strive to meet our team members where they're at in life. We offer great benefits! We have 8 company-paid holidays, a generous Paid Time Off Bank (PTO), and our benefits are robust and affordable. Full-time employees currently get health insurance, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance (1 times your annual salary) and company-paid short-term and long-term disability. We also offer extras like critical illness, accident coverage, legal coverage, identitiy protection, and pet insurance! And let's not forget the employee discounts that we offer on each of our brands' products/services - Design Design, Style Life, Verdant Graphics, Tableau, and The High Five Grand Rapids. Convivial Brands Diversity & Inclusion Statement: Convivial Brands is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our most valuable asset. our employees' individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent - and the way they invest their unique identities in their work - are a significant part of our culture, our reputation, and our achievements. We embrace and encourage our team members' differences in age, colore, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristices that make our team members unique. Convivial Brands' diversity initiatives apply to all parts of the employment experience, including but not limited to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; social and recreational programs; layoffs and separations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.   Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time   Shift -not applicable-   Position General Manager - Verdant Graphics   Number of Openings 1   Exempt/Non-Exempt Non-Exempt   Location Convivial Brands-Printing   EOE Statement It is our policy to offer equal opportunity to all, based upon individual merit and without regard to race, creed, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status, height, weight, genetic information (regarding employee or family), family medical history, Vietnam Era Veterans Status or physical or mental disability (provided that the disability - with or without a reasonable accommodation - would not interfere with your ability to perform the essential functions of the position applied for or constitute a safety hazard), to the extent required by law. We do not condone harassment relating to a person's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, height, weight, genetic information, age, or physical or mental disability. We prohibit the use, distribution, sale, or possession of drugs, and controlled substances while at work. We prohibit reporting to work under the influence of alcoholic beverages, drugs, or controlled substances. If you execute and submit this Application electronically to CONVIVIAL BRANDS ELC, INC, you agree to the following: (1) you voluntarily agree to submit your Application and the information you provided in it electronically; and (2) your electronic signature is your own.   This position is currently not accepting applications. 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