Technical Administrator We drive our own success. £27,500-£28,875 per annum based on experience On site staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more. Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal (Cumberland site) Fully Site based Monday- Friday 8.30-5pm Permanent role Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing, and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fueling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realize their potential, and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role. We have a Fantastic opportunity to join and support our Technical team at Meals London as a Technical Administrator. The successful candidate will have great attention to detail, be able to input data, results and reports and will have proficient / strong IT Skills. Technical Administrator duties; To enter complaints information onto the Access database. To run queries and analyse complaints data. Contact with customer complaints departments (update on customer complaints investigation Investigate complaints, record findings and compile response findings. Prepare required business reports for internal and external use allowing suitable time for amendments to be made, in-line with submission dates Ensure internal audits are completed as requested and to the required timescale Contribute to customer audits and visit's, leading in areas of expertise Coordinate on site and off-site calibration of equipment by liaising with approved external suppliers Review, verify and log calibration certificates; ensure all documentation is accurate and compliant Manage and maintain the centralised calibration schedule across the sites About you. Attention to detail Good interpersonal, organisational and communication skills, both verbal and written The ability to analyse information and accurately record or report in a clear and competent manner Good IT Skills including Word, Excel, Access, Insight and PowerPoint The ability to work as an individual and as part of a team What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Overtime Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Jul 16, 2025
Full time
Technical Administrator We drive our own success. £27,500-£28,875 per annum based on experience On site staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more. Bakkavor Meals London - Park Royal (Cumberland site) Fully Site based Monday- Friday 8.30-5pm Permanent role Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing, and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fueling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realize their potential, and build a brilliant future for themselves at Bakkavor. What we do. This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people. About the role. We have a Fantastic opportunity to join and support our Technical team at Meals London as a Technical Administrator. The successful candidate will have great attention to detail, be able to input data, results and reports and will have proficient / strong IT Skills. Technical Administrator duties; To enter complaints information onto the Access database. To run queries and analyse complaints data. Contact with customer complaints departments (update on customer complaints investigation Investigate complaints, record findings and compile response findings. Prepare required business reports for internal and external use allowing suitable time for amendments to be made, in-line with submission dates Ensure internal audits are completed as requested and to the required timescale Contribute to customer audits and visit's, leading in areas of expertise Coordinate on site and off-site calibration of equipment by liaising with approved external suppliers Review, verify and log calibration certificates; ensure all documentation is accurate and compliant Manage and maintain the centralised calibration schedule across the sites About you. Attention to detail Good interpersonal, organisational and communication skills, both verbal and written The ability to analyse information and accurately record or report in a clear and competent manner Good IT Skills including Word, Excel, Access, Insight and PowerPoint The ability to work as an individual and as part of a team What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Overtime Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Learning Associate Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Salary: 35,060 25 Days Holiday Staff Shop Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group Elveden London Monday to Friday 8.30 - 5pm 9 Month Fixed Term Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for delivering learning interventions at our dynamic and fast paced manufacturing sites - ensuring our employees are not only compliant when it comes to the regulatory and mandatory aspects of their role but also engaged and motivated through your training delivery. Based in our factories for the majority of your working day - driving engagement, building solid working relationships with key stakeholders and delivering a best-in-class training proposition, will be top of your agenda. We are looking for someone with the tenacity and resilience to join our journey of change - as we move from Factory Trainers to Learning and Development Specialists. Role Accountabilities Training delivery and competency assessment of machine usage, health & safety, manual handling and all elements of food safety Supporting training needs and compliance gap analysis Leveraging strong interpersonal skills and engaging content to deliver learning across all available channels Supporting site to ensure compliance with standards agreed, through the provision of learning interventions. About You Ideally, you will have a real flair for developing cross functional relationships and driving training best practice to ensure employees receive outstanding learning interventions and training. An FMCG background is not essential, however you will need to be ready for the challenge of working in this fast-paced ever-changing industry. If you are a dynamic and energetic training professional with the ability to drive the L&D agenda on the shop floor, this could be the perfect role for you. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Jul 15, 2025
Full time
Learning Associate Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Salary: 35,060 25 Days Holiday Staff Shop Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group Elveden London Monday to Friday 8.30 - 5pm 9 Month Fixed Term Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for delivering learning interventions at our dynamic and fast paced manufacturing sites - ensuring our employees are not only compliant when it comes to the regulatory and mandatory aspects of their role but also engaged and motivated through your training delivery. Based in our factories for the majority of your working day - driving engagement, building solid working relationships with key stakeholders and delivering a best-in-class training proposition, will be top of your agenda. We are looking for someone with the tenacity and resilience to join our journey of change - as we move from Factory Trainers to Learning and Development Specialists. Role Accountabilities Training delivery and competency assessment of machine usage, health & safety, manual handling and all elements of food safety Supporting training needs and compliance gap analysis Leveraging strong interpersonal skills and engaging content to deliver learning across all available channels Supporting site to ensure compliance with standards agreed, through the provision of learning interventions. About You Ideally, you will have a real flair for developing cross functional relationships and driving training best practice to ensure employees receive outstanding learning interventions and training. An FMCG background is not essential, however you will need to be ready for the challenge of working in this fast-paced ever-changing industry. If you are a dynamic and energetic training professional with the ability to drive the L&D agenda on the shop floor, this could be the perfect role for you. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Supply Chain Human Rights Risk Manager - Bakkavor Group Services We rise to challenges together £65,000-£75,000 depending on experience plus £8,400 car allowance, up to 20% company bonus scheme and private medical insurance, plus benefits listed below. Remote role / remote working - after initial integration into role and business and meeting key stakeholders in role Monday-Friday - 08:30am-17:00pm Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. What we do We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. About the role. This is an exciting new opportunity, for a Human Rights Manager, to lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of human rights initiatives within our supply chain operations. The successful candidate, will ensure that supply chain human rights risks are assessed, prioritised and mitigated. Ensure the Bakkavor Human Rights requirements, as part of the Responsible Sourcing Plan, are communicated with the supply chain, through active engagement and risk assessment. The role will also ensure, that effective and appropriate actions and remediation, are put in place to support due diligence, and provide continued improvement to Human Rights in the Bakkavor supply chain, whilst ensuring timely and effective stakeholder management. Duties and responsibilities will include; Establish a comprehensive human rights supply chain governance process. Ensuring an effective policy and strategy, aligned with the Bakkavor responsible sourcing objectives. Develop a comprehensive human rights risk assessment to evaluate and identify the Bakkavor supply chain risks and help prioritise actions and engagement with suppliers where identified. Ensure Human Rights requirements and measures are considered and integrated into supplier selection and evaluation. Providing data to help inform Procurement/ Responsible Sourcing decision making. Collaborate with Bakkavor supply chain, to enhance their understanding and implementation of human rights requirements and ensure appropriate mitigations are in place to minimise risk and build capacity. Work with suppliers in a timely manner to create action plans to address any identified human rights risks or non-compliance issues. Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including customers, NGOs, industry groups (FNET/Sedex), to stay abreast of emerging trends and best practices in responsible sourcing and communicate where necessary the Bakkavor position and plan. Engage in industry-wide efforts, to advance human rights standards in the food supply chain through partnerships, initiatives, and joint projects. Represent the Bakkavor business in customer or stakeholder audits where appropriate, following up on any gaps, or non-conformances required to ensure closure. Manage supply chain third-party audits and outcomes for human rights due diligence, to ensure compliance with internal policies, industry standards, and international human rights frameworks, following up on any gaps, or non-conformances identified to ensure an appropriate standards in the supply chain. Ensure that you are operating in a safe manner and in a safe environment at all times. Working with the SHE teams in Bakkavor to identify risk mitigation where necessary. About you. Excellent communicator at all levels, internally and externally. Excellent influencing skills to bring about effective alignment or change with key stakeholders. Adept at understanding and implementing business systems that will help drive change and deliver on targets Good level of influencing skills, to work with suppliers, customers and sites at senior levels. Team player with a can-do approach, willing to support the wider function. Minimum 5 years in food industry, preferably in a human rights/ethical trade role in a complex food supply chain, auditor experience or supplier relationship management advantageous. Proven track record of working with and influencing suppliers and customers in the food industry. In-depth knowledge and/or experience of global human rights standards and frameworks. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 20% of annual salary 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover) Cash allowance (car) - £8,400 Free Carparking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Jul 09, 2025
Full time
Supply Chain Human Rights Risk Manager - Bakkavor Group Services We rise to challenges together £65,000-£75,000 depending on experience plus £8,400 car allowance, up to 20% company bonus scheme and private medical insurance, plus benefits listed below. Remote role / remote working - after initial integration into role and business and meeting key stakeholders in role Monday-Friday - 08:30am-17:00pm Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. What we do We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. About the role. This is an exciting new opportunity, for a Human Rights Manager, to lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of human rights initiatives within our supply chain operations. The successful candidate, will ensure that supply chain human rights risks are assessed, prioritised and mitigated. Ensure the Bakkavor Human Rights requirements, as part of the Responsible Sourcing Plan, are communicated with the supply chain, through active engagement and risk assessment. The role will also ensure, that effective and appropriate actions and remediation, are put in place to support due diligence, and provide continued improvement to Human Rights in the Bakkavor supply chain, whilst ensuring timely and effective stakeholder management. Duties and responsibilities will include; Establish a comprehensive human rights supply chain governance process. Ensuring an effective policy and strategy, aligned with the Bakkavor responsible sourcing objectives. Develop a comprehensive human rights risk assessment to evaluate and identify the Bakkavor supply chain risks and help prioritise actions and engagement with suppliers where identified. Ensure Human Rights requirements and measures are considered and integrated into supplier selection and evaluation. Providing data to help inform Procurement/ Responsible Sourcing decision making. Collaborate with Bakkavor supply chain, to enhance their understanding and implementation of human rights requirements and ensure appropriate mitigations are in place to minimise risk and build capacity. Work with suppliers in a timely manner to create action plans to address any identified human rights risks or non-compliance issues. Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including customers, NGOs, industry groups (FNET/Sedex), to stay abreast of emerging trends and best practices in responsible sourcing and communicate where necessary the Bakkavor position and plan. Engage in industry-wide efforts, to advance human rights standards in the food supply chain through partnerships, initiatives, and joint projects. Represent the Bakkavor business in customer or stakeholder audits where appropriate, following up on any gaps, or non-conformances required to ensure closure. Manage supply chain third-party audits and outcomes for human rights due diligence, to ensure compliance with internal policies, industry standards, and international human rights frameworks, following up on any gaps, or non-conformances identified to ensure an appropriate standards in the supply chain. Ensure that you are operating in a safe manner and in a safe environment at all times. Working with the SHE teams in Bakkavor to identify risk mitigation where necessary. About you. Excellent communicator at all levels, internally and externally. Excellent influencing skills to bring about effective alignment or change with key stakeholders. Adept at understanding and implementing business systems that will help drive change and deliver on targets Good level of influencing skills, to work with suppliers, customers and sites at senior levels. Team player with a can-do approach, willing to support the wider function. Minimum 5 years in food industry, preferably in a human rights/ethical trade role in a complex food supply chain, auditor experience or supplier relationship management advantageous. Proven track record of working with and influencing suppliers and customers in the food industry. In-depth knowledge and/or experience of global human rights standards and frameworks. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 20% of annual salary 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover) Cash allowance (car) - £8,400 Free Carparking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Kitchen Assistant We drive our own success. Type of contract: Permanent Competitive salary Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm Location: Boness Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. This role will be a part of the Development team and will support the delivery of Development Activities. Role Accountabilities Business Communication: Has relationships with relevant functions to support the Development process activity. Customer: Supports hospitality for customer and high-profile visits. Facilities: Ensures kitchen facilities, hygiene and maintenance are kept to an agreed standard in accordance with the required health and safety procedures. Product Development Cycle: Assists the team in the product development process, including producing samples to an agreed quality standard within the required timescales. Collation of ingredients, samples and packaging ensuring stocks are replenished and rotated. Supports the development function with shopping requirements. Behaviours: Reliable, attention to detail, flexible, organised, diligent, conscientious, presentable, personally accountable, fast paced, resilient, alignment to BV value. About you. If you have a willingness to learn and grown, a can-do attitude and strong work ethics then this could be the ideal role for you! The successful candidate will need to have key skills such as being proactive, reliable, flexible and conscientious. It is also required that you hold a UK driver's license and have access to a car. If this sounds like you, then apply today by following the link below! What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Jul 09, 2025
Full time
Kitchen Assistant We drive our own success. Type of contract: Permanent Competitive salary Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm Location: Boness Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. This role will be a part of the Development team and will support the delivery of Development Activities. Role Accountabilities Business Communication: Has relationships with relevant functions to support the Development process activity. Customer: Supports hospitality for customer and high-profile visits. Facilities: Ensures kitchen facilities, hygiene and maintenance are kept to an agreed standard in accordance with the required health and safety procedures. Product Development Cycle: Assists the team in the product development process, including producing samples to an agreed quality standard within the required timescales. Collation of ingredients, samples and packaging ensuring stocks are replenished and rotated. Supports the development function with shopping requirements. Behaviours: Reliable, attention to detail, flexible, organised, diligent, conscientious, presentable, personally accountable, fast paced, resilient, alignment to BV value. About you. If you have a willingness to learn and grown, a can-do attitude and strong work ethics then this could be the ideal role for you! The successful candidate will need to have key skills such as being proactive, reliable, flexible and conscientious. It is also required that you hold a UK driver's license and have access to a car. If this sounds like you, then apply today by following the link below! What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Supply Chain Human Rights Risk Manager - Bakkavor Group Services We rise to challenges together £65,000-£75,000 depending on experience plus £8,400 car allowance, up to 20% company bonus scheme and private medical insurance, plus benefits listed below. Remote role / remote working - after initial integration into role and business and meeting key stakeholders in role Monday-Friday - 08:30am-17:00pm Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. What we do We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. About the role. This is an exciting new opportunity, for a Human Rights Manager, to lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of human rights initiatives within our supply chain operations. The successful candidate, will ensure that supply chain human rights risks are assessed, prioritised and mitigated. Ensure the Bakkavor Human Rights requirements, as part of the Responsible Sourcing Plan, are communicated with the supply chain, through active engagement and risk assessment. The role will also ensure, that effective and appropriate actions and remediation, are put in place to support due diligence, and provide continued improvement to Human Rights in the Bakkavor supply chain, whilst ensuring timely and effective stakeholder management. Duties and responsibilities will include; Establish a comprehensive human rights supply chain governance process. Ensuring an effective policy and strategy, aligned with the Bakkavor responsible sourcing objectives. Develop a comprehensive human rights risk assessment to evaluate and identify the Bakkavor supply chain risks and help prioritise actions and engagement with suppliers where identified. Ensure Human Rights requirements and measures are considered and integrated into supplier selection and evaluation. Providing data to help inform Procurement/ Responsible Sourcing decision making. Collaborate with Bakkavor supply chain, to enhance their understanding and implementation of human rights requirements and ensure appropriate mitigations are in place to minimise risk and build capacity. Work with suppliers in a timely manner to create action plans to address any identified human rights risks or non-compliance issues. Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including customers, NGOs, industry groups (FNET/Sedex), to stay abreast of emerging trends and best practices in responsible sourcing and communicate where necessary the Bakkavor position and plan. Engage in industry-wide efforts, to advance human rights standards in the food supply chain through partnerships, initiatives, and joint projects. Represent the Bakkavor business in customer or stakeholder audits where appropriate, following up on any gaps, or non-conformances required to ensure closure. Manage supply chain third-party audits and outcomes for human rights due diligence, to ensure compliance with internal policies, industry standards, and international human rights frameworks, following up on any gaps, or non-conformances identified to ensure an appropriate standards in the supply chain. Ensure that you are operating in a safe manner and in a safe environment at all times. Working with the SHE teams in Bakkavor to identify risk mitigation where necessary. About you. Excellent communicator at all levels, internally and externally. Excellent influencing skills to bring about effective alignment or change with key stakeholders. Adept at understanding and implementing business systems that will help drive change and deliver on targets Good level of influencing skills, to work with suppliers, customers and sites at senior levels. Team player with a can-do approach, willing to support the wider function. Minimum 5 years in food industry, preferably in a human rights/ethical trade role in a complex food supply chain, auditor experience or supplier relationship management advantageous. Proven track record of working with and influencing suppliers and customers in the food industry. In-depth knowledge and/or experience of global human rights standards and frameworks. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 20% of annual salary 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover) Cash allowance (car) - £8,400 Free Carparking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Jul 09, 2025
Full time
Supply Chain Human Rights Risk Manager - Bakkavor Group Services We rise to challenges together £65,000-£75,000 depending on experience plus £8,400 car allowance, up to 20% company bonus scheme and private medical insurance, plus benefits listed below. Remote role / remote working - after initial integration into role and business and meeting key stakeholders in role Monday-Friday - 08:30am-17:00pm Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. What we do We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. About the role. This is an exciting new opportunity, for a Human Rights Manager, to lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of human rights initiatives within our supply chain operations. The successful candidate, will ensure that supply chain human rights risks are assessed, prioritised and mitigated. Ensure the Bakkavor Human Rights requirements, as part of the Responsible Sourcing Plan, are communicated with the supply chain, through active engagement and risk assessment. The role will also ensure, that effective and appropriate actions and remediation, are put in place to support due diligence, and provide continued improvement to Human Rights in the Bakkavor supply chain, whilst ensuring timely and effective stakeholder management. Duties and responsibilities will include; Establish a comprehensive human rights supply chain governance process. Ensuring an effective policy and strategy, aligned with the Bakkavor responsible sourcing objectives. Develop a comprehensive human rights risk assessment to evaluate and identify the Bakkavor supply chain risks and help prioritise actions and engagement with suppliers where identified. Ensure Human Rights requirements and measures are considered and integrated into supplier selection and evaluation. Providing data to help inform Procurement/ Responsible Sourcing decision making. Collaborate with Bakkavor supply chain, to enhance their understanding and implementation of human rights requirements and ensure appropriate mitigations are in place to minimise risk and build capacity. Work with suppliers in a timely manner to create action plans to address any identified human rights risks or non-compliance issues. Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including customers, NGOs, industry groups (FNET/Sedex), to stay abreast of emerging trends and best practices in responsible sourcing and communicate where necessary the Bakkavor position and plan. Engage in industry-wide efforts, to advance human rights standards in the food supply chain through partnerships, initiatives, and joint projects. Represent the Bakkavor business in customer or stakeholder audits where appropriate, following up on any gaps, or non-conformances required to ensure closure. Manage supply chain third-party audits and outcomes for human rights due diligence, to ensure compliance with internal policies, industry standards, and international human rights frameworks, following up on any gaps, or non-conformances identified to ensure an appropriate standards in the supply chain. Ensure that you are operating in a safe manner and in a safe environment at all times. Working with the SHE teams in Bakkavor to identify risk mitigation where necessary. About you. Excellent communicator at all levels, internally and externally. Excellent influencing skills to bring about effective alignment or change with key stakeholders. Adept at understanding and implementing business systems that will help drive change and deliver on targets Good level of influencing skills, to work with suppliers, customers and sites at senior levels. Team player with a can-do approach, willing to support the wider function. Minimum 5 years in food industry, preferably in a human rights/ethical trade role in a complex food supply chain, auditor experience or supplier relationship management advantageous. Proven track record of working with and influencing suppliers and customers in the food industry. In-depth knowledge and/or experience of global human rights standards and frameworks. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 20% of annual salary 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover) Cash allowance (car) - £8,400 Free Carparking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Learning Associate Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Competitive Salary 25 Days Holiday Staff Shop Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group Devizes Monday to Friday 8.30 - 5pm Secondment or fixed-term contract (FTC) for 6-9 months to cover maternity leave Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for delivering learning interventions at our dynamic and fast paced manufacturing sites - ensuring our employees are not only compliant when it comes to the regulatory and mandatory aspects of their role, but also engaged and motivated through your training delivery. Based in our factories for the majority of your working day - driving engagement, building solid working relationships with key stakeholders and delivering a best-in-class training proposition, will be top of your agenda. We are looking for someone with the tenacity and resilience to join our journey of change - as we move from Factory Trainers to Learning and Development Specialists. Role Accountabilities Training delivery and competency assessment of machine usage, health & safety, manual handling and all elements of food safety Supporting training needs and compliance gap analysis Leveraging strong interpersonal skills and engaging content to deliver learning across all available channels Supporting site to ensure compliance with standards agreed, through the provision of learning interventions. About You Ideally, you will have a real flair for developing cross functional relationships and driving training best practice to ensure employees receive outstanding learning interventions and training. An FMCG background is not essential, however you will need to be ready for the challenge of working in this fast-paced ever-changing industry. If you are a dynamic and energetic training professional with the ability to drive the L&D agenda on the shop floor, this could be the perfect role for you. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Mar 18, 2025
Full time
Learning Associate Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Competitive Salary 25 Days Holiday Staff Shop Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group Devizes Monday to Friday 8.30 - 5pm Secondment or fixed-term contract (FTC) for 6-9 months to cover maternity leave Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for delivering learning interventions at our dynamic and fast paced manufacturing sites - ensuring our employees are not only compliant when it comes to the regulatory and mandatory aspects of their role, but also engaged and motivated through your training delivery. Based in our factories for the majority of your working day - driving engagement, building solid working relationships with key stakeholders and delivering a best-in-class training proposition, will be top of your agenda. We are looking for someone with the tenacity and resilience to join our journey of change - as we move from Factory Trainers to Learning and Development Specialists. Role Accountabilities Training delivery and competency assessment of machine usage, health & safety, manual handling and all elements of food safety Supporting training needs and compliance gap analysis Leveraging strong interpersonal skills and engaging content to deliver learning across all available channels Supporting site to ensure compliance with standards agreed, through the provision of learning interventions. About You Ideally, you will have a real flair for developing cross functional relationships and driving training best practice to ensure employees receive outstanding learning interventions and training. An FMCG background is not essential, however you will need to be ready for the challenge of working in this fast-paced ever-changing industry. If you are a dynamic and energetic training professional with the ability to drive the L&D agenda on the shop floor, this could be the perfect role for you. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Record to Report SAP Superuser We rise to challenges together Salary competitive Benefits: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary), Private medical insurance, Annual Bonus Scheme up to 10% Location: Spalding or Newark with flexibility to meet business needs Ways of Working: Hybrid (3 days in the office 2 days from home) Hours of work: Monday to Friday - 8:30am to 5:00pm Contract Type: Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. About the role The purpose of the Finance SAP Superuser role is to support the transition from the legacy ERP to the new system, SAP S4/HANA. They will be key to enabling the FSS team to execute day-to-day tasks in the new ERP system within their RTR Finance Pillar. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring the successful adoption of standard Bakkavor processes by helping colleagues adjust to the new ways of working as S4/HANA is rolled out across the UK. Acting as a liaison between the project team and the business, they will provide critical support to finance colleagues and important feedback to the project team, utilising their knowledge to assess the impact of upcoming changes and help deploy the future state solution. The Finance SAP Superuser will be the SAP expert for their respective finance pillar and will be a crucial part of the hyper care team providing frontline assistance during go-live windows for their function. Once the system is live the Superuser will continue to provide help & support to end users ensuring that they are guided to a solution or supported to escalate issues through appropriate channels. Post SAP go-live they may receive further training to enable them to pick up responsibility for training new starters for both future go-lives and into Business as Usual (BAU). Additionally, they will take learnings to continuously improve training materials to facilitate further business rollouts (as the roll-out plan is executed) and participate in any initiatives to modify the system or add upgrades / extra functionality. Role Accountabilities Act as the primary point of contact for day-to-day SAP end users (colleagues) for their area of the business supporting with queries and issues, ensuring timely resolution and escalation when necessary. Coordination of activities across their Finance Pillar, such as managing business impact actions to ensure successful transition to new standard processes and ways of working. Communicate effectively with impacted colleagues, champion change and provide insight into impacted audiences. Work closely with the project team and utilise their understanding of existing systems, processes, and tools to assess and deploy the future-state solution. Participate in SAP project activities including User Acceptance Testing (UAT), attend workshops, attend process walkthroughs, go-live preparation, and post-go-live support. Actively contribute as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), lead discussions using your knowledge of existing processes, data or systems. Support business data activities including data cleansing and the validation of training materials. Once the system is live, continue to be the first point of contact for end users, providing support and helping to escalate issues back into the Project team as appropriate. Post system go-live receive enhanced training to support delivery of training for new starters in their area of the business. (For future implementation waves and into Business as Usual (BAU . About You Skills & Experience: Strong written and verbal communication skills to convey information clearly & concisely, whether through email, phone calls or face-to-face interactions. High proficiency in Microsoft Office products, particularly MS PowerPoint, MS Word, and MS Excel. Demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Demonstrate excellent organisational skills; ability to plan, assign and direct work. Ability to utilise metrics to identify opportunities for further improvement, creating baselines, quantifying and demonstrating improvements. Ability to identify and apply best practice to finance operations. Strong track record in finance operations in a shared services environment. Knowledge: Strong knowledge of financial systems and finance processes. Understanding of metrics for their Finance Pillar, and ideally exposure to industry best practice. Previous experience in working with Finance ERP systems, specifically S/4 HANA preferred. Attributes: Strong leadership, motivating team members and fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment. Ability to influence peers (PTP/OTC Team Leaders and relevant colleagues) and team members and positive attitude towards change. Ability to engage and effectively build relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Must be able to work in a time-critical environment, strong organisational and time management skills. Adapt effectively to changes in the finance landscape, supporting the team through the changes. Drives a first-time right focus within the team and can deep dive into transactions (where required) with a keen eye for detail to identify and resolve issues. What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme up to 10% 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Mar 08, 2025
Full time
Record to Report SAP Superuser We rise to challenges together Salary competitive Benefits: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary), Private medical insurance, Annual Bonus Scheme up to 10% Location: Spalding or Newark with flexibility to meet business needs Ways of Working: Hybrid (3 days in the office 2 days from home) Hours of work: Monday to Friday - 8:30am to 5:00pm Contract Type: Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. About the role The purpose of the Finance SAP Superuser role is to support the transition from the legacy ERP to the new system, SAP S4/HANA. They will be key to enabling the FSS team to execute day-to-day tasks in the new ERP system within their RTR Finance Pillar. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring the successful adoption of standard Bakkavor processes by helping colleagues adjust to the new ways of working as S4/HANA is rolled out across the UK. Acting as a liaison between the project team and the business, they will provide critical support to finance colleagues and important feedback to the project team, utilising their knowledge to assess the impact of upcoming changes and help deploy the future state solution. The Finance SAP Superuser will be the SAP expert for their respective finance pillar and will be a crucial part of the hyper care team providing frontline assistance during go-live windows for their function. Once the system is live the Superuser will continue to provide help & support to end users ensuring that they are guided to a solution or supported to escalate issues through appropriate channels. Post SAP go-live they may receive further training to enable them to pick up responsibility for training new starters for both future go-lives and into Business as Usual (BAU). Additionally, they will take learnings to continuously improve training materials to facilitate further business rollouts (as the roll-out plan is executed) and participate in any initiatives to modify the system or add upgrades / extra functionality. Role Accountabilities Act as the primary point of contact for day-to-day SAP end users (colleagues) for their area of the business supporting with queries and issues, ensuring timely resolution and escalation when necessary. Coordination of activities across their Finance Pillar, such as managing business impact actions to ensure successful transition to new standard processes and ways of working. Communicate effectively with impacted colleagues, champion change and provide insight into impacted audiences. Work closely with the project team and utilise their understanding of existing systems, processes, and tools to assess and deploy the future-state solution. Participate in SAP project activities including User Acceptance Testing (UAT), attend workshops, attend process walkthroughs, go-live preparation, and post-go-live support. Actively contribute as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), lead discussions using your knowledge of existing processes, data or systems. Support business data activities including data cleansing and the validation of training materials. Once the system is live, continue to be the first point of contact for end users, providing support and helping to escalate issues back into the Project team as appropriate. Post system go-live receive enhanced training to support delivery of training for new starters in their area of the business. (For future implementation waves and into Business as Usual (BAU . About You Skills & Experience: Strong written and verbal communication skills to convey information clearly & concisely, whether through email, phone calls or face-to-face interactions. High proficiency in Microsoft Office products, particularly MS PowerPoint, MS Word, and MS Excel. Demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Demonstrate excellent organisational skills; ability to plan, assign and direct work. Ability to utilise metrics to identify opportunities for further improvement, creating baselines, quantifying and demonstrating improvements. Ability to identify and apply best practice to finance operations. Strong track record in finance operations in a shared services environment. Knowledge: Strong knowledge of financial systems and finance processes. Understanding of metrics for their Finance Pillar, and ideally exposure to industry best practice. Previous experience in working with Finance ERP systems, specifically S/4 HANA preferred. Attributes: Strong leadership, motivating team members and fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment. Ability to influence peers (PTP/OTC Team Leaders and relevant colleagues) and team members and positive attitude towards change. Ability to engage and effectively build relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Must be able to work in a time-critical environment, strong organisational and time management skills. Adapt effectively to changes in the finance landscape, supporting the team through the changes. Drives a first-time right focus within the team and can deep dive into transactions (where required) with a keen eye for detail to identify and resolve issues. What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme up to 10% 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
We drive our own success. Kitchen Assistant Type of contract: Permanent Competitive salary Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm Location: Bourne Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. This role will be a part of the Development team and will support the delivery of Development Activities. Role Accountabilities Business Communication: Has relationships with relevant functions to support the Development process activity. Customer: Supports hospitality for customer and high-profile visits. Facilities: Ensures kitchen facilities, hygiene and maintenance are kept to an agreed standard in accordance with the required health and safety procedures. Product Development Cycle: Assists the team in the product development process, including producing samples to an agreed quality standard within the required timescales. Collation of ingredients, samples and packaging ensuring stocks are replenished and rotated. Supports the development function with shopping requirements. Behaviours: Reliable, attention to detail, flexible, organised, diligent, conscientious, presentable, personally accountable, fast paced, resilient, alignment to BV value. About you. If you have a willingness to learn and grown, a can-do attitude and strong work ethics then this could be the ideal role for you! The successful candidate will need to have key skills such as being proactive, reliable, flexible and conscientious. It is also required that you hold a UK driver's license and have access to a car. If this sounds like you, then apply today by following the link below! What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Mar 08, 2025
Full time
We drive our own success. Kitchen Assistant Type of contract: Permanent Competitive salary Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm Location: Bourne Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. This role will be a part of the Development team and will support the delivery of Development Activities. Role Accountabilities Business Communication: Has relationships with relevant functions to support the Development process activity. Customer: Supports hospitality for customer and high-profile visits. Facilities: Ensures kitchen facilities, hygiene and maintenance are kept to an agreed standard in accordance with the required health and safety procedures. Product Development Cycle: Assists the team in the product development process, including producing samples to an agreed quality standard within the required timescales. Collation of ingredients, samples and packaging ensuring stocks are replenished and rotated. Supports the development function with shopping requirements. Behaviours: Reliable, attention to detail, flexible, organised, diligent, conscientious, presentable, personally accountable, fast paced, resilient, alignment to BV value. About you. If you have a willingness to learn and grown, a can-do attitude and strong work ethics then this could be the ideal role for you! The successful candidate will need to have key skills such as being proactive, reliable, flexible and conscientious. It is also required that you hold a UK driver's license and have access to a car. If this sounds like you, then apply today by following the link below! What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
BASIS and Security & Access Analyst Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career Salary - £50,000 - £55,000 Benefits - Life Assurance (1 x salary), 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role), Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Location - Spalding Hybrid Working 8:30am to 5:00pm - Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week) Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced BASIS and Security & Access Analyst to join our dynamic IT support team (S4/HANA). In this role, you will be responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the SAP S/4HANA environment, ensuring seamless operation, system stability, security, and compliance with access control policies. The ideal candidate will have expertise in SAP BASIS, SAP Security, and user access management, along with a deep understanding of the latest SAP S/4HANA technologies. Main Duties System Monitoring and Performance Tuning: Monitor and optimize the performance of SAP S/4HANA environments, including system resources, memory, and database performance. Proactively resolve system issues and bottlenecks. System Maintenance: Perform regular SAP S/4HANA system upgrades, patches, and transports. Ensure that all maintenance activities are completed in line with best practices. Landscape Management: Manage the SAP landscape, including multiple instances (e.g., development, testing, production) and ensure smooth integration between the SAP system, database, and other enterprise applications. Backup and Disaster Recovery: Implement and maintain SAP S/4HANA backup strategies and disaster recovery procedures to ensure data integrity and minimal downtime. User Access Control: Implement, monitor, and maintain user roles, profiles, and authorizations to ensure proper access to SAP S/4HANA modules and sensitive data. Security Configuration: Configure and maintain SAP security settings, including user authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), and password policies. Manage integration with Active Directory (AD) or other identity management solutions. Segregation of Duties (SoD): Identify and mitigate potential Segregation of Duties (SoD) violations by reviewing and adjusting user roles, ensuring compliance with internal controls and audit requirements. Audit and Compliance: Conduct regular security audits to identify vulnerabilities or compliance issues and implement corrective actions. Maintain audit trails of user access and activities within the SAP environment. Security Patches and Vulnerability Management: Stay up to date with SAP security patches and vulnerabilities. Apply necessary patches and security updates to the SAP landscape to safeguard against threats. Transport Management: Oversee the transport process for moving changes between SAP environments. Ensure that all transports are properly tested and validated before being deployed to production. Change Management: Work with the Change Management team to manage changes to the SAP environment. Ensure that changes are documented, approved, and implemented following the organization's change control processes. System Issue Resolution: Act as a key point of contact for troubleshooting and resolving system issues related to BASIS or security and access, collaborating with SAP Functional, Development, and Basis teams as needed. User Support: Provide technical support for SAP users, resolving issues related to access, system performance, and security configurations. Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for system configurations, access control policies, security settings, and incident resolution processes. Reporting: Generate reports on system performance, security incidents, user access audits, and compliance metrics as requested by management or external auditors. Process Improvement: Continuously monitor and identify opportunities for improving system performance, security posture, and access management processes. Training and Knowledge Sharing: Share knowledge and provide training on SAP BASIS and security practices to other team members and end-users as needed. About you Significant hands-on experience in SAP BASIS administration, with experience specifically in SAP S/4HANA environments. Solid experience in SAP Security, including user roles, profiles, and access control. Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA database and its administration. Familiarity with transport management and SAP change control processes. Experience with segregation of duties (SoD) and SAP security audits. SAP S/4HANA Administration and Configuration. Knowledge of SAP Cloud Platform and cloud-based SAP solutions is desirable. Experience with automation tools for BASIS or security management (e.g., SAP scripting, batch jobs). Experience in process optimization and driving business value through system improvements. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical users. Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage relationships with internal stakeholders. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues and propose practical solutions in a timely manner. SAP certification in relevant modules (e.g., SAP S/4HANA or ECC certifications). Experience in managing interfaces between SAP and third-party systems. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Mar 08, 2025
Full time
BASIS and Security & Access Analyst Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career Salary - £50,000 - £55,000 Benefits - Life Assurance (1 x salary), 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role), Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Location - Spalding Hybrid Working 8:30am to 5:00pm - Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week) Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced BASIS and Security & Access Analyst to join our dynamic IT support team (S4/HANA). In this role, you will be responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the SAP S/4HANA environment, ensuring seamless operation, system stability, security, and compliance with access control policies. The ideal candidate will have expertise in SAP BASIS, SAP Security, and user access management, along with a deep understanding of the latest SAP S/4HANA technologies. Main Duties System Monitoring and Performance Tuning: Monitor and optimize the performance of SAP S/4HANA environments, including system resources, memory, and database performance. Proactively resolve system issues and bottlenecks. System Maintenance: Perform regular SAP S/4HANA system upgrades, patches, and transports. Ensure that all maintenance activities are completed in line with best practices. Landscape Management: Manage the SAP landscape, including multiple instances (e.g., development, testing, production) and ensure smooth integration between the SAP system, database, and other enterprise applications. Backup and Disaster Recovery: Implement and maintain SAP S/4HANA backup strategies and disaster recovery procedures to ensure data integrity and minimal downtime. User Access Control: Implement, monitor, and maintain user roles, profiles, and authorizations to ensure proper access to SAP S/4HANA modules and sensitive data. Security Configuration: Configure and maintain SAP security settings, including user authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), and password policies. Manage integration with Active Directory (AD) or other identity management solutions. Segregation of Duties (SoD): Identify and mitigate potential Segregation of Duties (SoD) violations by reviewing and adjusting user roles, ensuring compliance with internal controls and audit requirements. Audit and Compliance: Conduct regular security audits to identify vulnerabilities or compliance issues and implement corrective actions. Maintain audit trails of user access and activities within the SAP environment. Security Patches and Vulnerability Management: Stay up to date with SAP security patches and vulnerabilities. Apply necessary patches and security updates to the SAP landscape to safeguard against threats. Transport Management: Oversee the transport process for moving changes between SAP environments. Ensure that all transports are properly tested and validated before being deployed to production. Change Management: Work with the Change Management team to manage changes to the SAP environment. Ensure that changes are documented, approved, and implemented following the organization's change control processes. System Issue Resolution: Act as a key point of contact for troubleshooting and resolving system issues related to BASIS or security and access, collaborating with SAP Functional, Development, and Basis teams as needed. User Support: Provide technical support for SAP users, resolving issues related to access, system performance, and security configurations. Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for system configurations, access control policies, security settings, and incident resolution processes. Reporting: Generate reports on system performance, security incidents, user access audits, and compliance metrics as requested by management or external auditors. Process Improvement: Continuously monitor and identify opportunities for improving system performance, security posture, and access management processes. Training and Knowledge Sharing: Share knowledge and provide training on SAP BASIS and security practices to other team members and end-users as needed. About you Significant hands-on experience in SAP BASIS administration, with experience specifically in SAP S/4HANA environments. Solid experience in SAP Security, including user roles, profiles, and access control. Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA database and its administration. Familiarity with transport management and SAP change control processes. Experience with segregation of duties (SoD) and SAP security audits. SAP S/4HANA Administration and Configuration. Knowledge of SAP Cloud Platform and cloud-based SAP solutions is desirable. Experience with automation tools for BASIS or security management (e.g., SAP scripting, batch jobs). Experience in process optimization and driving business value through system improvements. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical users. Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage relationships with internal stakeholders. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues and propose practical solutions in a timely manner. SAP certification in relevant modules (e.g., SAP S/4HANA or ECC certifications). Experience in managing interfaces between SAP and third-party systems. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Financial Accountant (Record to Report) Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high- quality career. Salary Competitive Benefits Bonus up to 10%, healthcare and pension Location Newark Ways of Working Hybrid 3 days on site 2 days from home Hours of work 08.30 - 17.00 Monday to Friday Contract Type - Permanent Please be informed that this role offers a job share option, which aims to promote a collaborative approach to workload management and improved work-life balance by sharing a full-time role with another colleague. Why join us? It's an exciting time to join Bakkavor we have just set up a new Finance Shared Service centre across our Spalding and Newark sites. You will be part of the team from the start, responsible for producing accurate and timely accounts and offering a great service to the business. You will draw upon your previous experiences to help us develop standardised processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. Bakkavor is currently investing in a new ERP so committed to driving improvements and building a team for the future. What We Do We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. About the Role Record-To-Report (RTR) Accountant role is responsible for the day-to-day processing of accounting activities and reporting in line with weekly, monthly and annual timetables. These activities cover a range of areas including fixed assets, inventory accounting, journal posting, intercompany, accruals and prepayments and year end audit. You will work as part of a team establishing a centre of excellence for accounting. Ensuring processes and Standard Operating procedures are followed, SLA's and KPI's are met and continuously looking for new ways to improve what we do. About You Ideally, you will have previous experience within a similar role and a sound understanding of the end-to-end RTR process - a history of working with ERP systems, specifically with SAP S/4 HANA would be highly desirable. You will be qualified or in the progress of completing a Professional Accounting Qualification (e.g., ACA/ACCA/CIMA) You will have working knowledge of UK adopted International Accounting Standards and relevant UK GAAP. What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme up to 10% 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Mar 08, 2025
Full time
Financial Accountant (Record to Report) Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high- quality career. Salary Competitive Benefits Bonus up to 10%, healthcare and pension Location Newark Ways of Working Hybrid 3 days on site 2 days from home Hours of work 08.30 - 17.00 Monday to Friday Contract Type - Permanent Please be informed that this role offers a job share option, which aims to promote a collaborative approach to workload management and improved work-life balance by sharing a full-time role with another colleague. Why join us? It's an exciting time to join Bakkavor we have just set up a new Finance Shared Service centre across our Spalding and Newark sites. You will be part of the team from the start, responsible for producing accurate and timely accounts and offering a great service to the business. You will draw upon your previous experiences to help us develop standardised processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. Bakkavor is currently investing in a new ERP so committed to driving improvements and building a team for the future. What We Do We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. About the Role Record-To-Report (RTR) Accountant role is responsible for the day-to-day processing of accounting activities and reporting in line with weekly, monthly and annual timetables. These activities cover a range of areas including fixed assets, inventory accounting, journal posting, intercompany, accruals and prepayments and year end audit. You will work as part of a team establishing a centre of excellence for accounting. Ensuring processes and Standard Operating procedures are followed, SLA's and KPI's are met and continuously looking for new ways to improve what we do. About You Ideally, you will have previous experience within a similar role and a sound understanding of the end-to-end RTR process - a history of working with ERP systems, specifically with SAP S/4 HANA would be highly desirable. You will be qualified or in the progress of completing a Professional Accounting Qualification (e.g., ACA/ACCA/CIMA) You will have working knowledge of UK adopted International Accounting Standards and relevant UK GAAP. What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme up to 10% 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
We're proud to be Bakkavor Quality Auditor £31,811 A range of voluntary benefits including holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans Holbeach Site based 3s&2s 18:00-06:00 Pink Shift Permanent Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Quality Auditor to join our Technical team at Bakkavor Holbeach on the Pink night shift. The site specialises in making chilled pizzas and is 11 miles from Spalding, 13.5 miles from Boston, 18 miles from Wisbech, 23 miles from King's Lynn and 29 miles from Peterborough. Working as part of a wider team of QA Auditors and reporting into one of our Quality Assurance Supervisors, you will play a key role in ensuring that our site continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners. As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus. In this position you will work on a permanent night shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota. As well as welcoming applications from candidates from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you. Full training on internal quality processes is provided to the successful candidate. Role accountabilities: To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence. Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions. Suggesting areas of improvement, relating to fabrication and procedures. Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes. To take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner. Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site. Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures. To assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Investigations may take the form of sampling, process reviews, traceability, or audits. To support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary. Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit. Coordination of day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment. About you. Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor . We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply .
Mar 08, 2025
Full time
We're proud to be Bakkavor Quality Auditor £31,811 A range of voluntary benefits including holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans Holbeach Site based 3s&2s 18:00-06:00 Pink Shift Permanent Why join us? We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. About the role. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Quality Auditor to join our Technical team at Bakkavor Holbeach on the Pink night shift. The site specialises in making chilled pizzas and is 11 miles from Spalding, 13.5 miles from Boston, 18 miles from Wisbech, 23 miles from King's Lynn and 29 miles from Peterborough. Working as part of a wider team of QA Auditors and reporting into one of our Quality Assurance Supervisors, you will play a key role in ensuring that our site continues to meet all quality and technical standards set nationally and by our grocery retailer partners. As one of our QA Auditors, you will audit, monitor, improve and evaluate quality systems and procedures and provide technical support for the operational teams as well as maintaining and promoting technical and quality standards in line with business needs and customer requirements will be a key focus. In this position you will work on a permanent night shift which will include some weekend working as set by the rota. As well as welcoming applications from candidates from a quality or technical background, we would also like to encourage applications from candidates who have operational or line experience within food production/manufacturing who wish to develop their career. If you have excellent attention to detail, are process driven and can use your initiative to prioritise your workload and problem solve we would like to hear from you. Full training on internal quality processes is provided to the successful candidate. Role accountabilities: To audit compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls, raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence. Effectively communicating to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action - then following up and monitoring completion of actions. Suggesting areas of improvement, relating to fabrication and procedures. Understanding the site traceability system to complete audits to demonstrate compliance and retrieve information for investigation purposes. To take samples (micro, nutritional, swab and organoleptic) against specific schedules and communicate the progress in a timely manner. Prepare and facilitate taste panels in accordance with procedure - ensuring that all results are accurately recorded and communicated to site. Calibration of measurement equipment in accordance with schedules and procedures. To assist the QA Supervisor in carrying out full investigations on specifications (micro and nutritional), complaints and incidents. Investigations may take the form of sampling, process reviews, traceability, or audits. To support NPD trials and product launches, assisting in micro testing and product life assessment to ensure products are manufactured to the correct standard as necessary. Providing technical support and advice to the factory team in the event of customer visit or audit. Coordination of day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety, and the environment. About you. Ideally you will have some professional experience within a similar Technical/QA role in a food environment but skills can be taught and if you have the enthusiasm and drive to develop within quality assurance this is an excellent first role. Understanding the chain of custody within the food environment and a background of working on small to mid-sized quality improvement projects, such as implementing new procedures and defining new supporting documentation - will be key. You will be an excellent communicator who can work alone with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving. You will always adopt a thorough and diligent approach to every task and you will be able to demonstrate our key values of customer care, can-do, teamwork and not just getting it right but keeping it right. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor . We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply .
Learning Associate Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Competitive Salary 25 Days Holiday Staff Shop Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group London Monday to Friday 8.30 - 5pm Permanent Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for delivering learning interventions at our dynamic and fast paced manufacturing sites - ensuring our employees are not only compliant when it comes to the regulatory and mandatory aspects of their role, but also engaged and motivated through your training delivery. Based in our factories for the majority of your working day - driving engagement, building solid working relationships with key stakeholders and delivering a best-in-class training proposition, will be top of your agenda. We are looking for someone with the tenacity and resilience to join our journey of change - as we move from Factory Trainers to Learning and Development Specialists. Role Accountabilities Training delivery and competency assessment of machine usage, health & safety, manual handling and all elements of food safety Supporting training needs and compliance gap analysis Leveraging strong interpersonal skills and engaging content to deliver learning across all available channels Supporting site to ensure compliance with standards agreed, through the provision of learning interventions. About You Ideally, you will have a real flair for developing cross functional relationships and driving training best practice to ensure employees receive outstanding learning interventions and training. An FMCG background is not essential, however you will need to be ready for the challenge of working in this fast-paced ever-changing industry. If you are a dynamic and energetic training professional with the ability to drive the L&D agenda on the shop floor, this could be the perfect role for you. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Mar 08, 2025
Full time
Learning Associate Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Competitive Salary 25 Days Holiday Staff Shop Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group London Monday to Friday 8.30 - 5pm Permanent Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for delivering learning interventions at our dynamic and fast paced manufacturing sites - ensuring our employees are not only compliant when it comes to the regulatory and mandatory aspects of their role, but also engaged and motivated through your training delivery. Based in our factories for the majority of your working day - driving engagement, building solid working relationships with key stakeholders and delivering a best-in-class training proposition, will be top of your agenda. We are looking for someone with the tenacity and resilience to join our journey of change - as we move from Factory Trainers to Learning and Development Specialists. Role Accountabilities Training delivery and competency assessment of machine usage, health & safety, manual handling and all elements of food safety Supporting training needs and compliance gap analysis Leveraging strong interpersonal skills and engaging content to deliver learning across all available channels Supporting site to ensure compliance with standards agreed, through the provision of learning interventions. About You Ideally, you will have a real flair for developing cross functional relationships and driving training best practice to ensure employees receive outstanding learning interventions and training. An FMCG background is not essential, however you will need to be ready for the challenge of working in this fast-paced ever-changing industry. If you are a dynamic and energetic training professional with the ability to drive the L&D agenda on the shop floor, this could be the perfect role for you. What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Development Manager Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career Salary - Competitive Private Health Care Annual Bonus Scheme Location - Boness 37.5 hours per week Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. As a Development Manager you will work as an integral part of the development team at pace in a fast moving environment, by producing innovative food products - that can be mass produced without any loss of quality or taste, which reflect our customer's trends and requirements. You will provide support at all key stages from concept / ideation to handover to the Process Team ensuring a smooth transition. Role Accountabilities Business Communication: Has effective internal working relationships across key functions to ensure the delivery of the Development process activity. Leadership: Manages and supports the team to effectively deliver the development activity to the highest standard, ensuring delivery of projects through critical path management Customer: Has good overall awareness of retailer development requirements and their relevant brand standards. Has effective customer relationships. Culinary: Has the ability to present product to internal and external customers. Demonstrates culinary knowledge and expertise Category Management: Has an understanding of category management principles and the ability to apply them. Product Innovation: Has a good awareness of relevant food trends, uses all mediums to generate ideas and has the ability to funnel and prioritise. Business Knowledge: Fully understands relevant site capabilities and has an understanding of broader Group capabilities. Product Development Cycle: Manages the internal business development process ensuring product development delivers in line with customer and business expectations. Market Awareness: Has an overall awareness of relevant product ranges in the market. Monitors and benchmarks product quality and escalates issues. Pipeline Management: Responsible for ensuring all product development is clear and accurate on sector pipeline document. Behaviours: Attention to detail, fast paced, positive, dynamic, creative, tenacious, resilient, alignment to BV values. About you. 1-2 years experience from a similar FMCG role with the food industry Excellent organisational, investigative problem solving and communication skills Drive, energy and enthusiasm Previous experience of working within a results orientated team Good standard of IT skills to include power point, word and excel Customer experience People management skills Innovative Critical thinking skills Critical path management Full UK Driving licence Location dependent What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Mar 08, 2025
Full time
Development Manager Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career Salary - Competitive Private Health Care Annual Bonus Scheme Location - Boness 37.5 hours per week Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. As a Development Manager you will work as an integral part of the development team at pace in a fast moving environment, by producing innovative food products - that can be mass produced without any loss of quality or taste, which reflect our customer's trends and requirements. You will provide support at all key stages from concept / ideation to handover to the Process Team ensuring a smooth transition. Role Accountabilities Business Communication: Has effective internal working relationships across key functions to ensure the delivery of the Development process activity. Leadership: Manages and supports the team to effectively deliver the development activity to the highest standard, ensuring delivery of projects through critical path management Customer: Has good overall awareness of retailer development requirements and their relevant brand standards. Has effective customer relationships. Culinary: Has the ability to present product to internal and external customers. Demonstrates culinary knowledge and expertise Category Management: Has an understanding of category management principles and the ability to apply them. Product Innovation: Has a good awareness of relevant food trends, uses all mediums to generate ideas and has the ability to funnel and prioritise. Business Knowledge: Fully understands relevant site capabilities and has an understanding of broader Group capabilities. Product Development Cycle: Manages the internal business development process ensuring product development delivers in line with customer and business expectations. Market Awareness: Has an overall awareness of relevant product ranges in the market. Monitors and benchmarks product quality and escalates issues. Pipeline Management: Responsible for ensuring all product development is clear and accurate on sector pipeline document. Behaviours: Attention to detail, fast paced, positive, dynamic, creative, tenacious, resilient, alignment to BV values. About you. 1-2 years experience from a similar FMCG role with the food industry Excellent organisational, investigative problem solving and communication skills Drive, energy and enthusiasm Previous experience of working within a results orientated team Good standard of IT skills to include power point, word and excel Customer experience People management skills Innovative Critical thinking skills Critical path management Full UK Driving licence Location dependent What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Management Skills Facilitator Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Competitive Salary Annual Bonus Scheme Private Health Care Spalding with travel Hybrid 8.30am - 5pm Permanent Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. The role is responsible for the delivery of in-house learning for managers across the UK business, with a particular emphasis on our front-line leaders who have the biggest impact on our operational workforce. Our Facilitator delivers workshops and learning events, providing education and awareness of key management and leadership skills, including the promotion of inclusive behaviours that align with our Values. Accountabilities: Deliver learning programmes, workshops and events across a range management and leadership skills. Coach line managers to help them navigate the Bakkavor Leadership Framework. Create opportunities where managers can learn and practise skills and behaviours that develop their leadership capabilities and enhance their performance and potential. Coach and influence line managers about the importance of fostering an inclusive culture where all our colleagues feel engaged. Develop management practices that improve inclusive leadership behaviours and drive alignment with our values. Provide MI to explain and evaluate the impact of our leadership programmes and expressed in tangibles ways that ensure the ongoing investment in learning. Travel to Bakkavor and other UK locations regularly with occasional overnight stays in order to deliver in-person events. About you: Previous experience of facilitating L&D programmes that are impactful and drive meaningful change to drive performance and personal development in managers and leaders at a range of levels Compelling presentation, speaking and facilitation skills - the role holder needs to be able to capture and hold people's interest whilst challenging perspectives and encouraging experimentation Good listening skills and the curiosity required to explore and understand the challenges that managers face in order to help them further develop their leadership capability Confidence and courage - to challenge when thinking needs to change or new perspectives need to be appreciated Resilience, energy and enthusiasm - being in-person with colleagues can be both exhilarating and draining - this role needs someone who can thrive in that environment and bring their best self to every group situation High level of self motivation and organisation to manage own diary and the competing needs of various stakeholders What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Sainsbury's, Tesco, M&S and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
Mar 07, 2025
Full time
Management Skills Facilitator Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Competitive Salary Annual Bonus Scheme Private Health Care Spalding with travel Hybrid 8.30am - 5pm Permanent Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. The role is responsible for the delivery of in-house learning for managers across the UK business, with a particular emphasis on our front-line leaders who have the biggest impact on our operational workforce. Our Facilitator delivers workshops and learning events, providing education and awareness of key management and leadership skills, including the promotion of inclusive behaviours that align with our Values. Accountabilities: Deliver learning programmes, workshops and events across a range management and leadership skills. Coach line managers to help them navigate the Bakkavor Leadership Framework. Create opportunities where managers can learn and practise skills and behaviours that develop their leadership capabilities and enhance their performance and potential. Coach and influence line managers about the importance of fostering an inclusive culture where all our colleagues feel engaged. Develop management practices that improve inclusive leadership behaviours and drive alignment with our values. Provide MI to explain and evaluate the impact of our leadership programmes and expressed in tangibles ways that ensure the ongoing investment in learning. Travel to Bakkavor and other UK locations regularly with occasional overnight stays in order to deliver in-person events. About you: Previous experience of facilitating L&D programmes that are impactful and drive meaningful change to drive performance and personal development in managers and leaders at a range of levels Compelling presentation, speaking and facilitation skills - the role holder needs to be able to capture and hold people's interest whilst challenging perspectives and encouraging experimentation Good listening skills and the curiosity required to explore and understand the challenges that managers face in order to help them further develop their leadership capability Confidence and courage - to challenge when thinking needs to change or new perspectives need to be appreciated Resilience, energy and enthusiasm - being in-person with colleagues can be both exhilarating and draining - this role needs someone who can thrive in that environment and bring their best self to every group situation High level of self motivation and organisation to manage own diary and the competing needs of various stakeholders What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Sainsbury's, Tesco, M&S and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
Development Technologist Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Competitive Salary 25 Days Holiday plus bank holidays Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Staff Shop 37.5 hours per week 08.30am - 5pm Monday - Friday Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. As a Development Technologist you will work as an integral part of the development team by producing innovative food products - that can be mass produced without any loss of quality or taste, which reflect our customer's trends and requirements. You will provide support at all key stages from concept / ideation to handover to the Process Team ensuring a smooth transition Role Accountabilities Business Communication: Has relationships with relevant functions to support the Development process activity. Customer: Has good overall awareness of retailer development requirements Culinary: Demonstrates an interest and passion within product area. Product Innovation: Able to identify emerging food and market trends with a passion for food and a drive to innovate Business Knowledge: Has a good understanding of the relevant site capabilities. Product Development Cycle: Uses recipe management systems to generate all key recipe information and costings in line with the commercial targets. Delivers all Development tasks to the required standard and timescale. Market Awareness: Is aware of comparative products from all retailers and captures and communicates relevant changes and newness. Pipeline Management: Inputs clear and accurate detail into Sector Pipeline document About you. Excellent organisational, investigative problem solving and communication skills Drive, energy and enthusiasm Previous experience of working within a results orientated team Good standard of IT skills to include power point, word and excel What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Feb 20, 2025
Full time
Development Technologist Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. Competitive Salary 25 Days Holiday plus bank holidays Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension Staff Shop 37.5 hours per week 08.30am - 5pm Monday - Friday Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. As a Development Technologist you will work as an integral part of the development team by producing innovative food products - that can be mass produced without any loss of quality or taste, which reflect our customer's trends and requirements. You will provide support at all key stages from concept / ideation to handover to the Process Team ensuring a smooth transition Role Accountabilities Business Communication: Has relationships with relevant functions to support the Development process activity. Customer: Has good overall awareness of retailer development requirements Culinary: Demonstrates an interest and passion within product area. Product Innovation: Able to identify emerging food and market trends with a passion for food and a drive to innovate Business Knowledge: Has a good understanding of the relevant site capabilities. Product Development Cycle: Uses recipe management systems to generate all key recipe information and costings in line with the commercial targets. Delivers all Development tasks to the required standard and timescale. Market Awareness: Is aware of comparative products from all retailers and captures and communicates relevant changes and newness. Pipeline Management: Inputs clear and accurate detail into Sector Pipeline document About you. Excellent organisational, investigative problem solving and communication skills Drive, energy and enthusiasm Previous experience of working within a results orientated team Good standard of IT skills to include power point, word and excel What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Private medical insurance (after 5 years' service) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Senior Development Technologist We drive our own success. Competitive Salary Private Health Care Bonus Scheme 25 Days Holiday plus bank holidays Monday to Friday 8.30 - 5pm Permanent Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Development Technologist to join Bakkavor to work at our Bakkavor site in Holbeach to support in the creation, management and delivery of the Development activity against the agreed Development plan. Role Accountabilities Innovate new products and processes in response to customer briefs to maintain and grow a creative catalogue of products for our customers. Manage focused development of new products to deliver the required margin for our customers and the business. Able to develop new products to meet internal and external standards and requirements for a broader area of responsibility. Presents new product and process facts and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively to customers internally and externally and cross functionally. Overall awareness of comparative products from all major retailers/competitors Working to a critical path plan, organises and controls resources to deliver products and processes to an agreed quality and timescale. Monitors and benchmarks product quality of new and existing products and raises issues with Development Manager About you. We are looking for a highly motivated, energetic development technologist with 1-2 years' experience from a similar FMCG role within the food industry. The key skills required for this role are: Excellent PC skills. Strong organisational and critical path management skills. Attention to detail. Ability to engage and communicate across the business. Creative, resilient, and self-motivated with good time management skills Commercially aware Team Player What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Feb 20, 2025
Full time
Senior Development Technologist We drive our own success. Competitive Salary Private Health Care Bonus Scheme 25 Days Holiday plus bank holidays Monday to Friday 8.30 - 5pm Permanent Why join us? We're constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. About the role. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Development Technologist to join Bakkavor to work at our Bakkavor site in Holbeach to support in the creation, management and delivery of the Development activity against the agreed Development plan. Role Accountabilities Innovate new products and processes in response to customer briefs to maintain and grow a creative catalogue of products for our customers. Manage focused development of new products to deliver the required margin for our customers and the business. Able to develop new products to meet internal and external standards and requirements for a broader area of responsibility. Presents new product and process facts and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively to customers internally and externally and cross functionally. Overall awareness of comparative products from all major retailers/competitors Working to a critical path plan, organises and controls resources to deliver products and processes to an agreed quality and timescale. Monitors and benchmarks product quality of new and existing products and raises issues with Development Manager About you. We are looking for a highly motivated, energetic development technologist with 1-2 years' experience from a similar FMCG role within the food industry. The key skills required for this role are: Excellent PC skills. Strong organisational and critical path management skills. Attention to detail. Ability to engage and communicate across the business. Creative, resilient, and self-motivated with good time management skills Commercially aware Team Player What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together. Credit Controller Location: Newark (Hybrid Working 3 days in the office 2 days at home) Business Area: Finance Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (6 months) Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm Salary: Competitive plus pension, life assurance Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. The Role We're proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a talented Accounts Receivable Associate with plenty of support and opportunity. And empower you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too. In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day processing of customer billing, cash collection, cash application, performing reconciliation, and managing disputes. The role involves transactional processing based on the allocation of tasks by OTC Team Leader / Manager and requires following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to execute the tasks within agreed SLAs and KPIs. Accountabilities Account Receivables and Revenue Reconciliations Reconciliation of Customer supply chain financing (SCF) portals to ERP systems to ensure all invoices are available for draw down Investigate any missing invoices with customer to ensure resolve in a timely manner and escalate to manager unresolved Review AR ledger and complete appropriate collection of account receivables and debt chasing activities as per agreed debt collection strategy Accurately record all 'promise to pay' and outcomes of debt chasing activities in a timely manner Escalate to Team Leader persistent overdue invoices and customer accounts Debit Note Resolution and Cash Application Undertake reconciliation of cash received against customer invoices to enable application of cash received to customer accounts. Where required, generate debit notes for customer deductions. Gather appropriate evidence and approval as per documented procedures Engage with stakeholders as needed to ensure payment is made within the agreed upon terms Identify unallocated cash and track source of it through reviewing payment records, bank statements, and any available communication with customers Generate credit notes as per documented procedures and seek appropriate approvals Raise customer account write offs to OTC Team Leader as needed Dispute Management Creates dispute case records with appropriate classification based on nature of disputes Undertake research on dispute cases; attaches and updates case documentation as appropriate Contacts customer and resolves disputes or escalates as appropriate Notifies appropriate internal stakeholders and updates case status Liaises closely with Business and Site Finance teams as appropriate Query Resolution Leads on resolving any queries or discrepancies related to sales orders, such as pricing discrepancies, quantity changes, or late deliveries Leads on resolving queries and issues related to the settlement of invoices in line with payment terms, or contractual obligations Resolve escalations from internal customers and respond to customer enquiries, ensuring issue and error resolution in line with agreed SLAs Correspond with Team Leaders if further escalation on queries is required Audit and Internal Controls Support internal and external audits as required Adhere to all documented procedures, internal controls, governance and policy requirements at all times Prepare reports on Accounts Receivables data, KPIs, aged receivables, and cash flow projections and share with the OTC Team Leader About you Ideally, you will have previous experience within a similar role and a sound understanding of the credit control / reconciliation process - a history of working with ERP systems, specifically with SAP S/4 HANA would be highly desirable. Strong written and verbal communication skills, an excellent service delivery attitude, attention to detail, proficiency of the use of Microsoft Office products and the ability to manage time effectively to meet tight deadlines whilst managing multiple tasks - will all be key. If you have a strong understanding of accounting concepts and/or are currently undergoing professional accounting qualification (e.g., AAT/ACA/ACCA/CIMA) this could be the perfect role for you. Come and join our fast paced and dynamic work environment and positively contribute to the growth and transformation of our shared services team. What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: • A stakeholder pension scheme • Personal accident Insurance • Free independent mortgage advice • Employee assistance programme • A range of voluntary benefits • Holiday purchase scheme • Additional life assurance • Dental & hospital cash plans • Discounted tutoring for children • Access to financial learning tools • Affordable loans via your salary • Proud to be and loyal service awards. Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food. You just didn't realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and breads for our customers in the UK, US and China. We're ambitious. We're full of ideas and we're ready for more people to join us who share our passion for quality - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
Feb 20, 2025
Full time
We thrive on challenge and change. We rise to challenges together. Credit Controller Location: Newark (Hybrid Working 3 days in the office 2 days at home) Business Area: Finance Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (6 months) Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm Salary: Competitive plus pension, life assurance Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We're ambitious. We're full of ideas. And we're ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. The Role We're proud to offer you a career with real scope for development. To reward your hard work and ambition as a talented Accounts Receivable Associate with plenty of support and opportunity. And empower you to drive your own success and create a career you can be proud of too. In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day processing of customer billing, cash collection, cash application, performing reconciliation, and managing disputes. The role involves transactional processing based on the allocation of tasks by OTC Team Leader / Manager and requires following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to execute the tasks within agreed SLAs and KPIs. Accountabilities Account Receivables and Revenue Reconciliations Reconciliation of Customer supply chain financing (SCF) portals to ERP systems to ensure all invoices are available for draw down Investigate any missing invoices with customer to ensure resolve in a timely manner and escalate to manager unresolved Review AR ledger and complete appropriate collection of account receivables and debt chasing activities as per agreed debt collection strategy Accurately record all 'promise to pay' and outcomes of debt chasing activities in a timely manner Escalate to Team Leader persistent overdue invoices and customer accounts Debit Note Resolution and Cash Application Undertake reconciliation of cash received against customer invoices to enable application of cash received to customer accounts. Where required, generate debit notes for customer deductions. Gather appropriate evidence and approval as per documented procedures Engage with stakeholders as needed to ensure payment is made within the agreed upon terms Identify unallocated cash and track source of it through reviewing payment records, bank statements, and any available communication with customers Generate credit notes as per documented procedures and seek appropriate approvals Raise customer account write offs to OTC Team Leader as needed Dispute Management Creates dispute case records with appropriate classification based on nature of disputes Undertake research on dispute cases; attaches and updates case documentation as appropriate Contacts customer and resolves disputes or escalates as appropriate Notifies appropriate internal stakeholders and updates case status Liaises closely with Business and Site Finance teams as appropriate Query Resolution Leads on resolving any queries or discrepancies related to sales orders, such as pricing discrepancies, quantity changes, or late deliveries Leads on resolving queries and issues related to the settlement of invoices in line with payment terms, or contractual obligations Resolve escalations from internal customers and respond to customer enquiries, ensuring issue and error resolution in line with agreed SLAs Correspond with Team Leaders if further escalation on queries is required Audit and Internal Controls Support internal and external audits as required Adhere to all documented procedures, internal controls, governance and policy requirements at all times Prepare reports on Accounts Receivables data, KPIs, aged receivables, and cash flow projections and share with the OTC Team Leader About you Ideally, you will have previous experience within a similar role and a sound understanding of the credit control / reconciliation process - a history of working with ERP systems, specifically with SAP S/4 HANA would be highly desirable. Strong written and verbal communication skills, an excellent service delivery attitude, attention to detail, proficiency of the use of Microsoft Office products and the ability to manage time effectively to meet tight deadlines whilst managing multiple tasks - will all be key. If you have a strong understanding of accounting concepts and/or are currently undergoing professional accounting qualification (e.g., AAT/ACA/ACCA/CIMA) this could be the perfect role for you. Come and join our fast paced and dynamic work environment and positively contribute to the growth and transformation of our shared services team. What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: • A stakeholder pension scheme • Personal accident Insurance • Free independent mortgage advice • Employee assistance programme • A range of voluntary benefits • Holiday purchase scheme • Additional life assurance • Dental & hospital cash plans • Discounted tutoring for children • Access to financial learning tools • Affordable loans via your salary • Proud to be and loyal service awards. Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food. You just didn't realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and breads for our customers in the UK, US and China. We're ambitious. We're full of ideas and we're ready for more people to join us who share our passion for quality - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
Raw Material Quality Auditor We rise to challenges together Salary: Competitive depending on experience Benefits: Life Assurance (1 x salary), MyBargains Discount Platform, A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Location: Devizes, SN10 2EU Ways of Working: Site based Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 08:30am-17:00pm Contract: Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The fast-paced, high-pressure environment of our 24/7 operation keeps us agile and offers a wide range of career opportunities to explore. We encourage everyone to push their limits, work hard, and demonstrate resilience. And it's thrilling. Because by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, we'll continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together. We're proud to offer you a career with significant potential for development. We recognize your hard work and ambition, offering plenty of support and opportunities as a talented Senior Section Manager. We empower you to drive your own success and build a career you can truly be proud of. What we do. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. About the role. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and motivated Raw Materials Quality Auditor to join our food manufacturing technical team - to be accountable for ensuring industry leading high standards of product safety, quality & legality. Role Accountabilities: Assessing all incoming deliveries against a pre-determined raw material specification. Maintaining accurate records of all raw materials (including packaging) entering the site Collecting samples for microbiological, nutritional, quality and chemical sampling against a pre-determined schedule and report progress in a timely manner With guidance from Line Manager, coordinating day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs Participating in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale Auditing compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls - raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions Developing relationships with suppliers by ensuring all non-conformances are communicated in a timely manner. Monitoring whether responses have been received and review the action plans to ensure root cause has been considered. Ensuring that all customer complaints in relation to raw materials are investigated satisfactorily and corrective actions are agreed and documented. Investigation findings will be reported to the site Quality/Systems Manager. Logging non-conformances associated with raw materials identified through intake checks, factory issues and/or customer complaints in order that supplier performance can be monitored and trended. Operating in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment About you. You will be a driven and highly motivated individual with a strong willingness to learn. Attention to detail is crucial in this role, as you will need to accurately complete documentation. You'll be an excellent communicator, capable of liaising with other departments when necessary, and able to work independently with a proactive and innovative approach to problem-solving. Strong computer skills are essential for success in this role. You will consistently take a thorough and diligent approach to every task, demonstrating our core values: Respect & Trust for one another, pride in our work, putting the customer at the heart of what we do, and ensuring we "get it right and keep it right." What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service) Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Feb 20, 2025
Full time
Raw Material Quality Auditor We rise to challenges together Salary: Competitive depending on experience Benefits: Life Assurance (1 x salary), MyBargains Discount Platform, A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Location: Devizes, SN10 2EU Ways of Working: Site based Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 08:30am-17:00pm Contract: Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The fast-paced, high-pressure environment of our 24/7 operation keeps us agile and offers a wide range of career opportunities to explore. We encourage everyone to push their limits, work hard, and demonstrate resilience. And it's thrilling. Because by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, we'll continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together. We're proud to offer you a career with significant potential for development. We recognize your hard work and ambition, offering plenty of support and opportunities as a talented Senior Section Manager. We empower you to drive your own success and build a career you can truly be proud of. What we do. We're the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. About the role. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and motivated Raw Materials Quality Auditor to join our food manufacturing technical team - to be accountable for ensuring industry leading high standards of product safety, quality & legality. Role Accountabilities: Assessing all incoming deliveries against a pre-determined raw material specification. Maintaining accurate records of all raw materials (including packaging) entering the site Collecting samples for microbiological, nutritional, quality and chemical sampling against a pre-determined schedule and report progress in a timely manner With guidance from Line Manager, coordinating day to day activities to deliver improvement of Technical KPIs Participating in Technical audits including customer and Group Technical, ensuring all relevant raw material information is available and completed in the required timescale Auditing compliance against Quality Management Systems, GMP and HACCP controls - raising all non-conformances against relevant standards with objective evidence, effectively communicated to enable the operational teams to take the appropriate and necessary corrective action & to follow up and monitor completion of actions Developing relationships with suppliers by ensuring all non-conformances are communicated in a timely manner. Monitoring whether responses have been received and review the action plans to ensure root cause has been considered. Ensuring that all customer complaints in relation to raw materials are investigated satisfactorily and corrective actions are agreed and documented. Investigation findings will be reported to the site Quality/Systems Manager. Logging non-conformances associated with raw materials identified through intake checks, factory issues and/or customer complaints in order that supplier performance can be monitored and trended. Operating in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment About you. You will be a driven and highly motivated individual with a strong willingness to learn. Attention to detail is crucial in this role, as you will need to accurately complete documentation. You'll be an excellent communicator, capable of liaising with other departments when necessary, and able to work independently with a proactive and innovative approach to problem-solving. Strong computer skills are essential for success in this role. You will consistently take a thorough and diligent approach to every task, demonstrating our core values: Respect & Trust for one another, pride in our work, putting the customer at the heart of what we do, and ensuring we "get it right and keep it right." What you'll receive. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. Life Assurance (1 x salary) 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service) Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor. We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Senior Project Management Office Lead - Project Vision We rise to challenges together Salary £90,000 to £100,000 depending on experience Benefits Car allowance £8,400, bonus up to 20% and family healthcare Location London Fitzroy Ways of Working Hybrid (2 - 3 days on site with travel to manufacturing sites as needed) Hours of work Monday to Friday 8.30 - 17.00 Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. About the role Bakkavor has set the vision to build a world class SAP solution, through Project Vision, that delivers outstanding customer and colleague experience, technology innovation, integrated & comprehensive solutions to ensure our operations run without impact. We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior PMO lead for the Project. The Senior PMO lead will be a highly experienced transformation professional, with a strong and demonstrable background delivering large, multi-year, business critical transformations. The Senior PMO lead, is responsible for overall planning and execution of Project Vision, by providing oversite of multiple workstreams activity, risk and issue management, change control, and stakeholder management. The role will lead long-term strategic project planning and preparation of status updates and presentations up to senior leadership. As a dynamic, self-starter, the individual will have the ability to communicate and influence senior workstream leaders, ensuring that the PMO function is positioned to 'add value' to the project team as a whole. As the project matures, the Senior PMO lead will also take responsibility for the orchestration of wider PMO capabilities that sit within technology. Defining best practice, building capability, and driving excellent execution across all focus areas - If you have the ability to use existing tools to identify innovative approaches, this could be the perfect role for you. Role Accountabilities Ensure the provision of an effective Project Management Office, including processes, standards, and governance frameworks Ensure the successful delivery of best practice project management methodologies, tools, and templates Lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of the transformation project, ensuring it is delivered on time, within scope, and within budget Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and integration of project activities Operate 'change control' process in relation to any updates to the plan in collaboration with delivery teams Receive and manage the quality assurance of status updates from key workstreams. Regularly chair project status updates, along with project plan update meetings, and risk meetings Present regular project status reports to senior management and other stakeholders Create the framework and approach for strategic roadmap planning in collaboration with the transformation lead Engage with key stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations and ensure effective communication throughout the project lifecycle Facilitate regular status meetings and provide updates to senior management and other stakeholders Support the development of a collaborative and high-performance work environment Provide guidance and support to project team members, ensuring they have the resources needed to succeed Take responsibility for ensuring an effective and involved risk management process in collaboration Ensure that risk management is part of the culture and ways of working across the project team Escalate critical issues to senior management when necessary. Define the approach to leading people resourcing throughout the programme, including capacity planning Input into the upskilling and capability building activities across the project team. About you Ideally, you will be proficient in project management processes and associated tools (e.g. Microsoft project, Jira). A deep understanding of how to run technology implementations, strong understanding of change management processes, specifically stakeholder management - will all be key, as will: - PMP, PRINCE2, or similar project management certification Comprehensive experience in complex project management 'Big four' consulting experience would be an advantage. S4 Hana / SAP programme experience Proven experience managing large-scale transformation projects Strong understanding of project management methodologies and best practices Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance (employee & family cover) Car allowance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Feb 20, 2025
Full time
Senior Project Management Office Lead - Project Vision We rise to challenges together Salary £90,000 to £100,000 depending on experience Benefits Car allowance £8,400, bonus up to 20% and family healthcare Location London Fitzroy Ways of Working Hybrid (2 - 3 days on site with travel to manufacturing sites as needed) Hours of work Monday to Friday 8.30 - 17.00 Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. About the role Bakkavor has set the vision to build a world class SAP solution, through Project Vision, that delivers outstanding customer and colleague experience, technology innovation, integrated & comprehensive solutions to ensure our operations run without impact. We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior PMO lead for the Project. The Senior PMO lead will be a highly experienced transformation professional, with a strong and demonstrable background delivering large, multi-year, business critical transformations. The Senior PMO lead, is responsible for overall planning and execution of Project Vision, by providing oversite of multiple workstreams activity, risk and issue management, change control, and stakeholder management. The role will lead long-term strategic project planning and preparation of status updates and presentations up to senior leadership. As a dynamic, self-starter, the individual will have the ability to communicate and influence senior workstream leaders, ensuring that the PMO function is positioned to 'add value' to the project team as a whole. As the project matures, the Senior PMO lead will also take responsibility for the orchestration of wider PMO capabilities that sit within technology. Defining best practice, building capability, and driving excellent execution across all focus areas - If you have the ability to use existing tools to identify innovative approaches, this could be the perfect role for you. Role Accountabilities Ensure the provision of an effective Project Management Office, including processes, standards, and governance frameworks Ensure the successful delivery of best practice project management methodologies, tools, and templates Lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of the transformation project, ensuring it is delivered on time, within scope, and within budget Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and integration of project activities Operate 'change control' process in relation to any updates to the plan in collaboration with delivery teams Receive and manage the quality assurance of status updates from key workstreams. Regularly chair project status updates, along with project plan update meetings, and risk meetings Present regular project status reports to senior management and other stakeholders Create the framework and approach for strategic roadmap planning in collaboration with the transformation lead Engage with key stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations and ensure effective communication throughout the project lifecycle Facilitate regular status meetings and provide updates to senior management and other stakeholders Support the development of a collaborative and high-performance work environment Provide guidance and support to project team members, ensuring they have the resources needed to succeed Take responsibility for ensuring an effective and involved risk management process in collaboration Ensure that risk management is part of the culture and ways of working across the project team Escalate critical issues to senior management when necessary. Define the approach to leading people resourcing throughout the programme, including capacity planning Input into the upskilling and capability building activities across the project team. About you Ideally, you will be proficient in project management processes and associated tools (e.g. Microsoft project, Jira). A deep understanding of how to run technology implementations, strong understanding of change management processes, specifically stakeholder management - will all be key, as will: - PMP, PRINCE2, or similar project management certification Comprehensive experience in complex project management 'Big four' consulting experience would be an advantage. S4 Hana / SAP programme experience Proven experience managing large-scale transformation projects Strong understanding of project management methodologies and best practices Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance (employee & family cover) Car allowance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Change & Communications Lead, Project Vision We rise to challenges together Salary £90,000 to £100,000 depending on experience Benefits Car allowance £8,400, bonus up to 20% and family healthcare Location London Fitzroy Ways of Working Hybrid (2 - 3 days on site with travel to manufacturing sites as needed) Hours of work Monday to Friday 8.30 - 17.00 Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. About the role Bakkavor has set the vision to build a world class SAP solution, through Project Vision, that delivers outstanding customer and colleague experience, technology innovation, integrated & comprehensive solutions to ensure our operations run without impact. We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Change and Communications lead for the Project. The successful candidate will be a highly experienced transformation professional, with a strong and demonstrable background delivering large, multi-year, business critical transformations. In this busy and exciting role, you will undertake overall responsible for leading the entire portfolio of change management interventions, covering stakeholder engagement, communications, role mapping, process visualization and training on Project Vision - with the intent of minimizing business disruption and supporting the effective introduction of S4 Hana across the business to an engaged stakeholder group. As a dynamic, self-starter, the individual will have the ability to communicate with, and influence senior stakeholders, and build critical relationships in the business to foster high degrees of trust and collaboration. Role Accountabilities Responsible for the overall change management strategy and how that brings together the workstreams of change, stakeholder engagement, communications, and training Responsible for delivering change impact assessments throughout the lifecycle of the project and associated change mitigation plans Ensure quality outputs and use of best practice tools, templates and methodologies across all change enablement workstreams Provide regular status updates as part of the project reporting cadence. Own the overall 'narrative' for Project Vision and ensure the provision of high-quality communications plans and assets in collaboration with the comms lead Oversee the planning and execution of the communications plan, ensuring full integration with other workstreams and alignment with critical path activities Take responsibility for overall stakeholder management plan, and progress reporting in relation to stakeholder engagement Take overall accountability for the effective provision of high-quality training which is exactly suited to the needs of Bakkavor stakeholders in collaboration with the training lead Take responsibility for developing the strategy to ensure that all training attributes remain relevant and up to date in the future. Oversee the deliver of all process visualisations in collaboration with the process leads. Provide quality assurance on effective completion of role mapping activities Take responsibility for developing strategies to ensure process visualisations and role mapping activities are designed in a way that they are sustainable practices and future fit (e.g. including exploring the use of technology to support with this) About you What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance (employee & family cover) Car allowance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.
Feb 20, 2025
Full time
Change & Communications Lead, Project Vision We rise to challenges together Salary £90,000 to £100,000 depending on experience Benefits Car allowance £8,400, bonus up to 20% and family healthcare Location London Fitzroy Ways of Working Hybrid (2 - 3 days on site with travel to manufacturing sites as needed) Hours of work Monday to Friday 8.30 - 17.00 Contract Type - Permanent Why join us? We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together. About the role Bakkavor has set the vision to build a world class SAP solution, through Project Vision, that delivers outstanding customer and colleague experience, technology innovation, integrated & comprehensive solutions to ensure our operations run without impact. We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Change and Communications lead for the Project. The successful candidate will be a highly experienced transformation professional, with a strong and demonstrable background delivering large, multi-year, business critical transformations. In this busy and exciting role, you will undertake overall responsible for leading the entire portfolio of change management interventions, covering stakeholder engagement, communications, role mapping, process visualization and training on Project Vision - with the intent of minimizing business disruption and supporting the effective introduction of S4 Hana across the business to an engaged stakeholder group. As a dynamic, self-starter, the individual will have the ability to communicate with, and influence senior stakeholders, and build critical relationships in the business to foster high degrees of trust and collaboration. Role Accountabilities Responsible for the overall change management strategy and how that brings together the workstreams of change, stakeholder engagement, communications, and training Responsible for delivering change impact assessments throughout the lifecycle of the project and associated change mitigation plans Ensure quality outputs and use of best practice tools, templates and methodologies across all change enablement workstreams Provide regular status updates as part of the project reporting cadence. Own the overall 'narrative' for Project Vision and ensure the provision of high-quality communications plans and assets in collaboration with the comms lead Oversee the planning and execution of the communications plan, ensuring full integration with other workstreams and alignment with critical path activities Take responsibility for overall stakeholder management plan, and progress reporting in relation to stakeholder engagement Take overall accountability for the effective provision of high-quality training which is exactly suited to the needs of Bakkavor stakeholders in collaboration with the training lead Take responsibility for developing the strategy to ensure that all training attributes remain relevant and up to date in the future. Oversee the deliver of all process visualisations in collaboration with the process leads. Provide quality assurance on effective completion of role mapping activities Take responsibility for developing strategies to ensure process visualisations and role mapping activities are designed in a way that they are sustainable practices and future fit (e.g. including exploring the use of technology to support with this) About you What you'll receive As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you. You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Private medical insurance (employee & family cover) Car allowance Annual Bonus Scheme 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role) Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme Discount & cashback platform Personal Accident Insurance Free health check Employee Assistance Programme A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Salary sacrifice car lease scheme Free independent mortgage advice Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Free car parking - Site dependant Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions. Proud to be Bakkavor We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! Find out more and apply.