Shift pattern: We offer flexibility around the shift pattern, which may be days or nights: night shift would be Thursday to Monday, 8:00pm-6:30am (starting Wednesday night), while the day shift is either Monday to Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm, or Sunday to Wednesday, 6:00am-4:30pm; as this is a single vacancy, the successful candidate will be offered their preferred shift.
Salary: Competitive
Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Here at Northampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.
What you'll be doing
Direct team members to follow standard operating procedures and use allocated resources to deliver outputs as determined by the Logistics plans
Supervise team activities to ensure safety, for self and others, always
Provide leadership and direction to the logistics teams to ensure that people are engaged, focused and delivering their potential
Implement and embed continuous improvements by ensuring team members understand and use new/improved process, practices and systems to enhance team performance
Ensure that all team members have the skills and understanding necessary to successfully complete their role and receive on the job training and have training plans in place to support their ongoing development
Produce all necessary documentation and information to ensure that a clear audit trail of activity is available for review and analysis
Participate as a member of a cross functional operations team to identify and build collaborative working relationships which deliver solutions to immediate issues and identify ways in which performance across the operational team can be improved What we're looking for
Experience of logistics and distribution, ideally gained as an operative or people manager
Has good numeracy and literacy skills
Demonstratable knowledge of the distribution/warehouse business
Experienced in implementing safety policies and procedures
Experience leading and managing a diverse team
Experience setting a goal / target and supporting others with achieving the goal
Ideally previous working within FMCG and chilled foods
Any previous transport experience would be an advantage
What you'll get in return
Competitive salary and job-related benefits
Holidays
Pension up to 8% matched
Life insurance up to 4x salary
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platformAt Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success