Overview

General ManagerVestis Uniforms and Workplace Supplies in Fulton, MO is seeking a dedicated and experienced General Manager to oversee all operations in across their Fulton Market Center and depot locations. In this General Manager role you will be responsible for overseeing production operations, driving business growth, and ensuring operational and customer service excellence, including strategic planning, financial performance, production efficiency, and team development.Production ManagementUnderstanding how to manage a Market Center (MC) location (annual revenue of $10M +).Learning about profitability and growth by obtaining new customers and retaining current customer relationships and maintain the market center's total managed volume.Use strategic and leadership skills to facilitate employee selection, development, retention, motivation, and strong customer relationships.Gain knowledge around compliance with contracts and company policies and procedures.Participate in hands-on activities in the market center and in other field locations.Creates and supports a culture of adherence to market center(s) standardization in support of, financial, quality, service, and safety goals.Understand efficient operations of location in accordance with established business values, policies and processes.Reviews financial statements, reports and other performance data in a dedicated manner. Identifies financial productivity and sales goal achievement to determine areas in need of remediation and improvement.Understands the proper and timely collection of the Company's accounts receivables.Participate in a pervasive sales culture that fosters team selling via Together in Growth (TIG) and Shared Lead programs.Sets and ensure production goals are met for the efficient, timely, quality and profitable completion of activities for a given product.Schedules work flow and daily production for the market center(s). Coordinates plans for efficient use of materials, machines, and employees.Perform production audits in plant, as needed, for optimum production efficiency and quality outputs.Proactively intervenes when there are found bottlenecks or issues with any production run or process. Seeks out efficient and timely resolution to issues. Communicates with market center(s) management on resolution activities and timing.Act as a technical resource to anyone in the market center(s) to resolve more complex problems as they relate to plant production.Establish close working relationship with plant engineer to ensure efficient, safe, and cost-effective review of equipment, energy, and waste water processing.Sets and establishes maintenance schedule for production equipment that ensures timely equipment operation without disruption in production activities.Work with market center(s) management, identify and implement systems and methods that will improve operating efficiency consistent with operating goals, cost constrains and safety guidelines.Production Data and Performance MeasuresAnalyze and react to production aspects of market center(s) profit and loss (P&L) statement(s). Work with GM(s) to proactively enhance positive results.Use production data to ensure production/facilities type activities are contributing to the achievement of market center(s) financial objectives.Periodically review reports to ensure they are measure needed and timely items of impact. Make recommendations on improvements for new practices or processes and ensure they are implemented and used in an effective manner.Ensure production measures (i.e. production costs and product quality) are up to date and trends are communicated to Operations Support and market center(s) management team(s). Suggests modifications to production as needed to maintain and enhance profitable operation of the plan. Effective measures may include:Processing cost(s)Indirect / Direct labor cost(s)Merchandise inventory levelsProduction scheduling/throughput cost(s)Quality/complete loads and associated