Manufacturing FLM

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 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

In this role you will facilitate and coach team performance, encouraging development of individuals and teams through clear and inspirational leadership. Working through others, achieving high levels of targeted performance, customer satisfaction and quality standards; this will be founded on a culture of continuous improvement, development and learning.

It is expected that the jobholder will create an environment where critical thinking and constructive challenging is the norm.

Key Accountabilities

Actively engage individuals and teams in the Safety First culture, managing people effectively through robust leadership skills and in compliance with AB internal policies and procedures To lead and facilitate individuals and teams to deliver optimal levels of performance on cost, resource, service requirements To drive product quality through all systems available and people To contribute to the optimization of a production plan, operating the production plant in the most efficient and cost effective manner Ensure that development and training needs of individuals are consistently applied to create a proactive environment of learning through relevant documentation (learning logs) To actively encourage individuals and teams to continuously challenge and improve manufacturing processes To optimise work cross-functionally providing insight and control over the bakery infrastructure.

The Right Person

Essential

At least 3 Years experience within a FMCG environment with Proven leadership and management experience and Be able to demonstrate people and performance experience

Advantageous

Preferably be a graduate in a Manufacturing related discipline or equivalent.