Introducing Stefan De Villiers to Protea Recruitment

Protea Recruitment is thrilled to introduce our new Trainee Recruitment Consultant, Stefan De Villers, to Protea Recruitment! Stefan brings a wealth of enthusiasm, passion and a fresh perspective to our team.

Stefan's dedication to delivering exceptional service and building strong relationships with both clients and candidates aligns with our ethos, and we are confident that he will make a significant contribution to our business.

Our team couldn't be happier to have Stefan on board with us and we look forward to watching him grow and develop his career with us!

Head of Operations, Ashford, United Kingdom

Protea Recruitment New role: Job Title: Head of Operations Industry: FMCG Product: Food Location: Kent Package: £90k - £120k

Essential:

• Experience in High-Care food production management desired

• HACCP, food safety and hygiene

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving Skills

• Have experience in driving change management and will be comfortable making tough decisions while upholding a strong set of behaviours and values.

• Be capable of successfully transitioning from the factory floor to the boardroom, demonstrating good commercial awareness and the ability to contribute to wider business initiatives.

Duties:

• Support the Middle-level Managers to manage the day-to-day activities of Production, Warehousing, Quality, and Logistics.

• Ensure Managers are briefed and clearly understand the key organizational messages.

• Have commercial awareness when working on business strategies to develop plans to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

• Being able to balance strategic and operational priorities will be vital in this role, you’ll need to have a hands-on approach but know when to delve into the detail or when to retain a wider perspective.

• Ensuring Compliance with external audits, i.e., BSI, BRC, Lion code, etc.

• Responsible for the production, procurement, and planning of daily operations.

• Monitor budgets and costs effectively.

• Planning and controlling change by researching new technologies and alternative methods of efficiency.

• Have an awareness and support teams with Health and Safety in departments.

• Inspiring, coaching, developing, and mentoring your team to grow into a positive culture.

• Your leadership will be positive motivation and goal setting, leading by example.

• Working with middle-level Managers to establish, implement and review their departmental policies and procedures, goals, and objectives, whilst bringing a continual improvement culture, and evolving processes by developing and reviewing what we do.

• Have excellent communication and decision-making skills.

• Ensures compliance with company policies.

• Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects.

Or please send a copy of your CV or call John on 07809117856 for more details.

Lead consultant for this vacancy: John Small

Due diligence:

**Protea Recruitment has authorization from our client to advertise and recruit on their behalf.

If you have not heard from one of our consultants within five working days from submission, you have not met the criteria of this vacancy set by our client and are unsuccessful in moving to the next stage.

Assistant Management Accountant - Ashford

Job Title: Assistant Management Accountant Industry: FMCG Product: Food Location: Kent Package: £30k - £40k

Desirable criteria:

• Qualified or part-qualified with 1 year of management accounting experience.

• Sage 200

• Strong spreadsheet skills, especially in Excel.

• Highly motivated

• Strong financial and analytical skills

• Inquisitive nature

• Ability to work using own initiative and as part of a larger finance team.

• Good communication & presentation skills

• Ability to work to strict timelines.

Duties:

• Accruals and prepayments

• Preparation of month-end journals

• Bank reconciliations

• Maintenance of fixed assets register.

• Support with monthly (and weekly) management accounts

• Provide commentary on results.

• Support with the annual budget process

• Provide analysis & written explanations.

• Review & update the forecast.

• Reporting and analysis of both financial & non-financial indicators

• Trending of data and investigation of anomalies.

• Identify opportunities to continually improve site performance.

• Support the financial team to balance monthly all balance sheet entries – including Fixed Assets and Stocks

• Liaise with head office functions to collect information for product costing.

• Calculate and provide analysis on accurate product costing for decisions at the Senior Management level.

The above list is not exhaustive, due to the department’s needs, individuals may be required to carry out additional duties.

The Company reserves the right to vary or amend the duties and responsibilities of the post holder at any time according to the needs of the Company’s business.

Alternatively, send a copy of your CV or call John on 07809117856 for more details.

Lead consultant for this vacancy: John Small

Due diligence: **Protea Recruitment has authorization from our client to advertise and recruit on their behalf.

If you have not heard from one of our consultants within five working days from submission, you have not met the criteria of this vacancy set by our client and are unsuccessful in moving to the next stage.