Empowering Yeo - WMS Key Super User - 12 month secondment

Yeo Valley Production Ltd; Blagdon; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive holiday allowance

Non-contributory pension scheme

Life cover

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work scheme

Subsidised Yeo Valley products and new

Job summary

Yeo Valley Production Ltd sponsors a 12-month secondment to lead and champion the Finished Goods Warehouse Management System (WMS) implementation across Isleport. You will work with the WMS SME to support design, testing, deployment readiness, training and adoption from design through go-live and hypercare.

The role emphasises reflecting operational needs, standard ways of working and industry best practice across the campus while maintaining health and safety and food safety standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in finished goods warehousing within manufacturing or logistics.
• Ability to translate operational requirements into standardised processes.
• Experience supporting workshops, testing and process reviews.
• Experience developing SOPs, training materials and coaching end users.
• Strong understanding of warehouse data, stock integrity and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Define and embed standard future-state warehouse processes across Isleport.
• Contribute to design workshops and review sessions to ensure practicality.
• Participate in business testing, defect triage and validation for finished goods processes.
• Act as data owner for warehouse data including extraction, cleansing and cutover readiness.
• Develop SOPs, training content and end-user guidance; deliver role-based training.
• Provide frontline support during cutover, go-live and hypercare; stabilise processes.
• Capture feedback and collaborate with WMS SME to improve adoption and performance.

Skills

Finished goods warehousing

Stock accuracy

Warehouse processes

Data quality

Stakeholder engagement

Training delivery

Tools

Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Scanning solutions

Job description

So, what will I be doing?

Yeo Valley Production aims to Nurture & Nourish People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever.

In this 12 month secondment position, starting 16th November, you will act as a key operational champion for the Finished Goods Warehouse Management System (WMS) implementation across Isleport within the Empowering Yeo programme. Working closely with the Finished Goods WMS SME, support design, testing, deployment readiness, training and adoption from design through go-live and hypercare, ensuring the solution reflects operational needs, standard ways of working and industry best practice across the campus.

Key responsibilities

Key responsibilities and accountabilities aligned to our long-term Strategic Aims:

Passionate People

• Building on the strengths of the family feel and culture across the organisation by
• Champion the Finished Goods WMS change across the warehouse teams by building engagement, confidence and commitment to standard ways of working.
• Maintain the brilliant fundamental basics of Health and Safety and Food Safety in all that we do.
• Support the Finished Goods WMS SME by providing practical warehouse insight and helping colleagues adapt to new processes and system changes.
• Role model the leadership behaviours committed to our co-owners by taking responsibility, being fair and always aspiring to be the best version of ourselves.

Good Food for All

• Developing and influencing better ways of working by
• Support the Finished Goods WMS workstream from design through go-live and hypercare, aligned to the wider Empowering Yeo roadmap.
• Contribute to design workshops, process reviews and testing activity to help define practical, standard warehouse ways of working.
• Support a smooth transition to BAU by helping establish the super user network, process ownership and a clear support model post go-live.
• Drive adoption across warehouse teams through structured communication, role‑based training and visible on‑site support.

Most Sustainable Food

• Enable more sustainable and efficient warehouse operations by embedding standard processes, improving stock accuracy and reducing waste through consistent adoption of Finished Goods WMS ways of working.
• Work with warehouse teams to help create and embed clear, standard ways of working across Isleport using WMS-enabled processes.
• Support stronger stock accuracy, improved transaction discipline and reduced operational waste through consistent process adoption.
• Help maintain data quality and governance for warehouse-critical processes so stock, transaction and operational reporting remain trusted and useful.

Proudly Independent

• Build co‑owner confidence and capability by making the warehouse system change practical, well-supported and continuously improved after go‑live.
• Make the warehouse voice visible by capturing feedback and best practice from operational teams and converting it into standard processes and improvements.
• Support end users to understand and adopt the new ways of working by providing clear communication, hands‑on training and visible on‑site support.
• Act as a local operational voice in design and support discussions, balancing standardisation with what will work in a live finished goods warehouse environment.
• Reinforce accountability post go‑live by monitoring process compliance, stock accuracy and data quality, and coaching teams where standards slip.

Delivery responsibilities

• Support the Finished Goods WMS SME in defining, documenting and embedding standard future‑state warehouse processes across Isleport.
• Contribute operational input to design workshops and review sessions to ensure the solution works effectively in practice.
• Participate in business testing, defect triage and validation for finished goods warehouse processes.
• Act as a data owner for relevant warehouse data by supporting data extraction, cleansing, validation and cutover readiness.
• Help develop SOPs, training content and end‑user guidance, and deliver or support role‑based training across warehouse teams.
• Provide front‑line support during cutover, go‑live and hypercare, helping to stabilise the solution and reinforce standard ways of working.
• Capture feedback, identify improvement opportunities and work with the Finished Goods WMS SME to improve adoption and operational performance over time.

Essential

• Strong experience of finished goods warehousing, including stock control, picking, despatch, inventory accuracy and warehouse flow in a fast‑paced manufacturing or logistics environment.
• Strong knowledge of warehouse processes and best practice, with the ability to translate operational requirements into clear, standardised ways of working.
• Experience supporting workshops, testing activity and process reviews to help shape practical solutions in a live operational environment.
• Experience developing SOPs, training materials and coaching end users through system and process change.
• Strong understanding of warehouse data, stock integrity, master data and the controls required to support accurate system transactions and reporting.
• Good communication, problem‑solving and stakeholder engagement skills, with a structured and practical approach to change.

Desirable

• Experience of Warehouse Management Systems, scanning solutions and the latest warehousing picking technology.
• Knowledge of current Yeo Valley finished goods warehouse processes, system and data flows across site.
• Experience working with external delivery partners across requirements, design, testing and go‑live.
• Experience contributing to testing, cutover and hypercare activities for operational system change.

Why should I join the family?

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.

We're sure you don't need convincing, but there's a whole host of benefits that we offer.

• 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

Unfortunately, we're not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do notaccept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitmentportal at the point of instruction.