• Leading day-to-day operations across a complex food manufacturing environment, ensuring quality, efficiency and customer delivery expectations are consistently achieved.
• Translating commercial objectives into operational plans, measurable outcomes and clear performance expectations.
• Identifying opportunities to improve productivity, manage costs, reduce waste and strengthen overall business profitability.
• Providing visible, approachable leadership across the workforce, building engagement, capability and accountability at all levels.
• Overseeing operational planning, resource allocation and production performance across a diverse product and customer portfolio.
• Driving continuous improvement across systems, processes and ways of working, whilst maintaining high standards of food safety, quality and compliance.
• Working closely with the Senior Leadership Team to provide meaningful operational insights, identify opportunities and support the organisation's continued growth.
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About You

We're looking for a commercially astute, people-focused leader who enjoys being close to the operation and takes genuine pride in developing teams and improving business performance.

You'll bring demonstrated success in an operational leadership or general management capacity, ideally within food manufacturing, FMCG or another complex, production-led environment.

Experience within cook-chill manufacturing, particularly across multiple customers and a diverse SKU portfolio, would be highly regarded, although we're equally interested in speaking with individuals who can demonstrate transferable experience and a strong track record of results.

Importantly, You'll Bring

• Proven experience leading operational teams and delivering measurable improvements in business performance.
• Strong commercial acumen, with an understanding of the relationship between operational efficiency, cost management, customer outcomes and profitability.
• A hands-on, visible leadership style, with the ability to build credibility and trust across all levels of an organisation.
• Experience managing operational complexity, competing priorities and customer expectations.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution and sound day-to-day decision-making.
• A collaborative, solutions-focused approach, with the confidence to challenge existing processes and introduce meaningful improvement
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