Group Technical Sustainability Lead

Location:        Homebased/Mobile

Shift:               Monday - Friday

Salary:            Competitive with Opportunity for Growth

 

We have an opportunity for a Group Technical Sustainability Lead to join our Technical team.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

The Group Sustainability Lead will create a framework to support monitoring of technical KPIs for all Finsbury sites, identifying trends and areas of concern at the earliest stages to enable early intervention and action delivery. This role will also drive a continuous improvement culture within compliance across Finsbury, seeking to implement best practice and progression towards compliance excellence for the group.

This is a fast-paced role, where the successful candidate will be degree educated in Food Science/Technology or related subject. They will ideally have extensive experience in the food industry with proven track record of driving continuous improvement, and a track record of working cross functionally to drive results

This role is Homebased but will require regular travel to our sites (Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Cardiff or Salisbury) and customers for meetings which could be weekly or monthly, depending on the requirement.

 

This is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses. They’ll work closely with a friendly and engaging team from both a site and group perspective, offering opportunities for growth and long-term career development.

 

This is what you’ll actually do!

The Group Sustainability Lead will report directly to the Group Technical Director and will operate across the Finsbury end to end supply chain inclusive of all manufacturing sites. This new role is key to the shaping and implementation of the Technical Excellence Strategy across the group as part of the wider business Excellence strategy. As a new role there will be an element of role development and process/system implementation for future sustainability.

They will set up and run a group wide internal audit process to standardise and improve the current internal auditing done across each site. The aim to be that internal auditing is viewed as a key leading KPI across the business driving continuous improvement and influencing direction of Technical Excellence Strategy. They will also have management of the supporting specialist audits i.e. Acheta/Kiwa and PAS and integrating them into the overall audit reporting pack. They will also develop and lead the Technical Early Careers strategy, centred around a Technical Graduate programme allowing us to attract, develop and retain talent.

To be successful in this role it is key that the person doing this role is a self-starter and can work effectively with minimal supervision. They need to have a passion for driving excellence through robust insight and be confident delivering this message through both existing meeting structures and reports. They need to have good influencing skills and be confident working cross functionally to deliver results, comfortable both working as a team and alone.

 

 

Ideally this is you!

• HND/Degree Educated in Food Science/Technology or related subject
• Ideally to have 5-10 years’ experience in the food industry with proven track record of driving continuous improvement
• Must have a track record of working cross functionally to drive results
• Experience of being able to set up new ways of working and processes would be a significant advantage to this role
• Must be able to develop clear business reports to get engagement from wider stakeholders
• Ability to seek out best practice from other industry types and transfer into our business.
• People orientated change agent who can take people with them on change.

 

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!

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Last updated on Oct 24, 2024