Operations Manager

Advocate Group; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Group is seeking a strategic operations professional in Uxbridge, UK to lead capacity and capability projects across EMEA. The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders to drive growth, optimize supply networks, and ensure operational readiness for new product launches. A successful candidate will have proven experience in operations, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a commercial mindset. This is a high-visibility role within a recognized brand, offering the opportunity to influence supply network evolution.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a broad Operations role.
• Strong stakeholder management across internal and external networks.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to balance cost, speed, and long-term strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of new capacity and capability projects across EMEA.
• Design efficient supply chain flows.
• Drive on-time, in-full execution across multiple stakeholders.
• Manage risks, issues, and change control across project lifecycles.
• Support new product launches with a focus on operational readiness.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Problem solving

Operations expertise

Commercial mindset

Job description

This is a high-impact, strategic operations role focused on projects across Operations. We are looking for someone with broad experience and exposure across Operations and Supply Chain who is looking for a role that is less hands-on day-to-day and more strategic project management.

What You’ll Be Doing

Project Delivery (End-to-End Ownership)

• Lead delivery of new capacity and capability projects across EMEA
• Design efficient supply chain flows (physical + system)
• Drive on-time, in-full execution across multiple stakeholders
• Manage risks, issues, and change control across project lifecycles
• Support new product launches with a focus on operational readiness

Leadership & Growth

• Own and deliver projects that enable long-term regional growth
• Contribute to the 3-year supply network strategy
• Build strong business cases with clear recommendations
• Act as the operational voice within your markets

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner cross-functionally with internal teams, suppliers, and external partners
• Influence and align stakeholders to deliver optimal outcomes
• Play a key role in network design and optimisation conversations
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, cost, and service
• Embed sustainable processes and ways of working
• Drive a culture of proactive problem solving and improvement

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in a broad Operations role
• Strong stakeholder management across internal and external networks
• Commercial mindset with the ability to balance cost, speed, and long-term strategy
• A natural problem solver who can lead, influence, and execute

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to step into a visible, business-critical role within a globally recognised brand where you’ll directly influence how the supply network evolves to support continued growth.

If you thrive in environments where pace is fast, expectations are high, and impact is real—this is one to explore.

The Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner, based in the UK, to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

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