Process Development Manager

Process Development Manager

We’re Proud to be Bakkavor

Salary: Competitive

Location: Bakkavor Meals – London (Multi site)

Shift: Monday – Friday

Hours: 08:30 – 17:00 * flexibility required for business needs, requirements and audits*

Benefits include up to 10% company bonus, life insurance, staff shop, MyBargains discount platform and more.

Why join us?

We’re proud to offer you a career with options to explore and pursue. Where you’ll be supported to work hard, push further and show resilience – can we remove this sentence. As a valued Senior Process Technologist, we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to rise to challenges and create a career you can be proud of too.

 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

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Process Development Manager to join Bakkavor Meals London.

The role of the Process function is to develop manufacturing capability to enable the business to deliver volume from product concepts. Once a product concept has been signed off, Process will work across all functions and the customer to produce product in line with food safety and technical standards, H&S, Financial and Commercial expectations 

Accountabilities:

• Customer management Building relationships & trust in department and business by providing a flexible but pragmatic approach. Point of contact sharing knowledge and experience internally and externally. This may be for the whole site in a straightforward business or be for a product area within a more complex one 
• Compliance Ensures & challenges audit readiness to meet business and customer needs demonstrating a drive towards best practice
• People Management/Leadership Provides direction for the team, if site supports one, from business objectives. Develops the team by coaching and by setting stretch objectives in line with business and customer target or establishes clear, agreed objectives for themselves if working in a smaller unit.
• Critical path Leading the delivery of the Critical path for. projects across categories & customers from project definition to launch. Delivers the trial programme against the critical path to successfully launch products against timelines, achieving customer requirements
•  Accountable for delivery of NPD products within defined project costs and margins
• Problem Solving Provides direction in problem solving guidance. Demonstrate problem solving skills and root cause analyses with a consistent and proactive approach.

About you:

• Strong preference for process development in fresh food manufacturing
•  Experienced in process management with sound operational and technical experience at site level.
•  Demonstrates good organisational and influencing skills and an ability to facilitate across all levels of the business
• Innovative thinking with the ability to work “within the day to day”
• Commercially minded, monitors initiatives with agreed processes
•  Communication style that engages multi discipline teams to get results
• Experienced People Manager with a track record in developing people and teams

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 

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!

Apply now to find out more!

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