We want to be a fantastic, visionary and purposeful food and farming business powered by people who feel inspired by our purpose and valued as true co-owners.
We want to create a workplace where every co-owner (and visitor) feels safe, well and able to thrive. As such, we are creating this new role to help lead our work in creating the conditions to thrive. This may include, but not be limited to, ensuring everyone has access to great food & nutrition, a brilliant active health programme, fantastic breakout spaces and access to life skills beyond our core L&D curriculum (eg support with financial planning, English language skills, support to stop smoking/drinking etc). This work is an important part of ensuring that everyone at Yeo Valley feels that they belong here and that our purpose is felt in everything we do - truly nurturing and nourishing our co-owners.
A key member of the People Team, this role holder will be passionate about people, and about creating the conditions for everybody to thrive. You will be clear sighted, articulate and influential - mapping out priorities based on the needs of different audiences throughout our business, and securing the buy in of a variety of stakeholders.
You will be passionate about nutrition, active health and a holistic definition of wellbeing, and ideally will have experience of creating programmes and delivering projects that have demonstrable beneficial human outcomes. You will be creative and tenacious, with a clear vision for how to ensure people feel able to belong and flourish.
You will be part of the People Team, reporting to the People & Culture Director.
Interviews are planned to be held Wednesday 18th March
Key Responsibilities
Food & Nutrition
Working with our catering managers, indirect procurement and site-based teams, you will ensure that we create an affordable, nutritious food offering for all of our co-owners and visitors, in line with our food policy (more biology, less chemistry).Nature positive sourcing principles, with organic regeneratively farmed ingredients where possible, and whole or lightly processed food will run through the heart of your approach, whilst also ensuring that our food offering caters for our audiences' needs (often including long shifts, night work and physical activity, sometimes in chilled warehouses).
Active Health
Working with our people leaders, reward specialists and facilities teams, you will understand the importance of active health and design mechanisms to enable co-owners to understand the importance of, and have easy access to, active health programmes.
Facilities
Working with our people leaders, co-owner experience lead, DEI Specialist, H&S Manager and local facilities teams, you will understand the importance of the physical environment to creating conditions where people can thrive.You will identify physical spaces that will create the biggest impact - such as breakout spaces - and ensure that these are accessible, inclusive and engaging spaces for everyone to use.
Life skills
Adopting a non-evangelical approach, you will build a clear understanding of the life skills that will enable different audiences across our co-owner populations to thrive, and work with our reward specialists, DEI Specialist, L&D teams and community networks to build a comprehensive platform of life skills and special interest groups, and ensure that all co-owners are aware of them as and when the need arises.This may include financial planning skills, English language skills, and community support networks such as support for healthy lifestyle choices.
What great looks like for this role
Creative and curious thinker and problem solver, able to facilitate alignment and deliver outcomes
Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders to deliver results and impact
Passionate about people and ensuring everyone can thrive and flourish
Wants to make an impact and to help show there is a better way for food businesses to serve both people and the planet, both within the business and beyond it
Essential
Qualifications & Experience
Strong alignment to our purpose and vision, particularly our vision for a culture of co-ownership
Ability to business partner and influence senior stakeholders (including Founder and Boards)
Demonstrable experience in project management roles, delivering tangible outcomes through the leadership of cross-functional diverse teams of people
A passion for people and a progressive approach to People & Culture
Proven track record of successful stakeholder management, change management and delivery focus
Desirable
A passionate foodie - with a particular love of health, nutrition & responsible nature-friendly sourcing
Demonstrable interest in and love of active health and life/community support programmes
Experience of facilities management and co-owner engagement
Experience within FMCG manufacturing organisations
Project management qualifications (eg Prince2, APM, PMP)
Change management experience
We're independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK's major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1900 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK's packaged yogurt.
Benefits
We're sure you don't need convincing, but there's a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker. You'll also receive the following:
Competitive holiday allowance
non-contributory pension scheme
life cover
healthcare cash back plan
cycle to work scheme
subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
preferential rates with our partners
learning and development opportunities; we're committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow
Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don't miss the opportunity to join us
Unfortunately, we're not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.
Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.