Allied Bakeries are owned by Associated British Foods. ABF is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £20.1bn and 138,000 employees in 56 countries. It has significant businesses in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Our sister companies in ABF UK Grocery produce products under many market-leading household brands, including Jordans, Ryvita, Pataks, Blue Dragon & Silver Spoon.
We are proud of our brands: we make top 10 UK grocery brand Kingsmill as well as Allinson's, Bürgen and Sunblest. You'll know us best through our white, wholemeal and seeded market-leading loaves, as well as Kingsmill 50/50, the nation's favourite Healthier White, and our delicious pancakes, crumpets, hot cross buns and other bakery products.
The success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team. We are incredibly passionate about our business, but it isn't for the faint-hearted – it's pacey and demanding so our people need to have a positive attitude and to want to work inclusively. We take massive pride in what we do, not least in how colleagues based in our bakeries and depots have one of the best safety performance records in the industry.
Our Grocery Service Centre, based near Liverpool, is a hub for transactional activity across multiple ABF companies within the ABF Grocery division. Supporting some of our well-known brands such as Kingsmill, Pataks, Blue Dragon, Jordans, Ryvita and Silver Spoon, amongst others. We deliver Shared Service activities across a wide range of disciplines including Customer Services, Consumer Care, Finance, Payroll, HR and IS.
If you're looking to join a business that is passionate, encourages you to be the best you can be, and values its people, we'd love to hear from you.
Overview Of Role
Location
: West Bromwich, Midlands
An exciting and rare opportunity for a strategic and hands-on leader at our West Bromwich Bakery to make a positive impact, optimising processes for effectiveness and cost-efficiency, and embedding a world-class culture of safety and quality across the site. You will be responsible for leading and developing the Hygiene team, delivering good factory standards and customer satisfaction.
Key Accountabilities
* Safety Culture: Drive a safety culture by improving and maintaining a safe working environment, ensuring all team members are aware and complying with health and safety standards, legal and company requirements.
* Team Leadership: Effective leadership, coaching, development and motivation of the Manufacturing Services team, to ensure high levels of performance, compliance and that all their KPI's are met or exceeded.
* Strategic Management: Collaborate with operations management team to define and execute hygiene standards. Monitor performance metrics and implement improvement plans where necessary.
* Operations Management: Coordinate with cross-functional teams to optimise service delivery to your internal customers and meet KPI's.
The Right Person
* Health & Safety Management – Strong practical knowledge of UK H&S legislation. This includes conducting comprehensive risk assessments (COSHH, PUWER, DSEAR).
* Food Safety & Quality – Good knowledge of food safety management standards, ability to manage audits, both internal and external and stock control.
* Successful Leadership experience in a commercially challenging, results driven and fast paced manufacturing environment with good interpersonal skills.
* Waste Management - Proficiency in modern inventory control techniques, including cycle counting, stock rotation (FIFO/FEFO), and managing stock levels to prevent shortages or waste.
* Environment Management - A strong understanding of environmental social governance and experience of executing strategies and actions for legal compliance and operational improvements.