Job Description

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 everyday 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.

Why is this an exciting time to be a Business Deployment Manager at Greencore?

The Business Deployment Manager (BDM) role is critical in transitioning the operational aspects of our business to a standardized template, ensuring a seamless migration to the SAP S/4HANA platform.

In this role, the BDM will primarily support the Business Deployment Lead (BDL) in delivering the convergence runway, while also taking responsibility for planning, organizing, and coordinating the necessary activities to guarantee effective business involvement and engagement for successful deployments.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with the Senior Leadership Teams across the business to establish and manage governance
• Leading and coordinating business resources engaged in the program, driving business activities while proactively managing any risks, issues, or escalations tied to business involvement
• Supporting the BDL within the broader context of Project Vision and business transformation
• Providing guidance and direction to the business teams throughout the convergence process
• Communicating business responsibilities & leading business activities in collaboration with key business stakeholders
• Providing regular reporting to key stakeholders and business insight to the broader deployment and GPO team
• Acting as reviewer &/or approver for key business-related deliverables, involving business stakeholders in reviews as appropriate
• Identifying key stakeholders & defining the appropriate engagement approach, working with the Change Lead
• Managing key business stakeholders using formal & informal engagement activities
• Championing the adoption of the solution and driving business involvement to ensure an appropriate level of business engagement
• Ensuring the business fully understands and is prepared for the new processes & supporting applications
• Ensuring the business knows the roles, responsibilities, and time required to prepare for convergence activity and ongoing use following go live
• Ensuring mitigating activities are in place to avoid any material impact on Food Safety, Health & Safety, Customer Service or Operational Performance
• Establishing, owning, and managing the business governance forums to ensure the appropriate level of proactive business engagement and involvement to proactively manage risk and support ongoing business adoption
• Supporting the capture of change impacts, ensuring that the full scope has been captured and shared with business leadership
• Managing business-related risks and issues and working with the business to implement and drive the completion of mitigation activities
• Owning feedback, building lessons learnt into the runway model, continuing to evolve the templates and methodology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of convergence activity
• Providing input to the future deployment planning across the UK
• Managing adhoc projects as part of the broader MyERP and transformation agenda as required, ensuring deliverables are achieved within timescales and budget