Executive Postings

Position: GENERAL MANAGER
Location: Singapore
Our Client

Established in Germany more than 30 years ago, the company develops and processes established quality products made from edible fruits, vegetables and plants. This independent family-owned international company has based its success on high flexibility, responsiveness and delivery capability and it is the global market leader in manufacturing colouring foods stuffs. The company focuses on managing and controlling the entire supply chain from the raw materials through to ready for dispatch branded products.

Substantial international growth in the past 10 years has led to the company establishing affiliate offices in the USA, Spain, Italy, France and Poland, in addition to factories in Holland and Germany and the R&D HQ in Germany.

Further development of market penetration, continued growth and maintenance of market leadership has led to the company needing to establish an affiliate office in Singapore. The company is requiring to recruit a General Manager to establish the office (including a small laboratory) and develop business in the region.
The Position

The title will be General Manager, Southeast Asia. The position is Singapore based & will report to the Managing Director, UK.

The responsibilities, tasks & challenges of the role can be summarized as:-
  • To prepare, establish and manage the Singapore based office & laboratory, planning, purchasing & recruitment functions.
     
  • Lead, train & motivate a small technical & commercial team whilst creating a performance led culture.
     
  • Think and act entrepreneurially, identifying & exploiting new opportunities.
     
  • Develop business to increase market share & profits in a measured & sustainable way.
     
  • Establishing, recommending and achieving annual & long term business goals for the company through superior understanding of the challenges & opportunities in the marketplace.
     
  • Ability to develop & implement competitive plans.
     
  • The position will be an integral part of the International team.
The Ideal Candidate  
A qualification or technical competence & background in Food Science or allied industry is required together with a mindset & persona of long term commitment to the Food industry and the satisfaction gained from delivering profitable growth & impeccable customer service.

The Ideal Candidate will be ready for the next career challenge and s/he will demonstrate experience in a customer driven, commercially aware organization of comparable scale & complexity as well as a track record of building significantly on high standards of customer service.

The Ideal Candidate must be able to demonstrate genuine interest in developing people.

S/he will possess strong motivational and interpersonal skills coupled with a passion to support & build on a successful & high performing culture by taking an inclusive approach & earning the respect & trust of peers & colleagues spread across the globe.

We shall be searching for evidence of dynamic leadership & commitment to create a significant business across the territories of SouthEast Asia with value & long term benefit.
 
   
Interested candidates please email your updated CVs along with current and expected remuneration to ailing@garner.com.sg

We thank you for your interest and regret that only short listed candidates would be notified.