Food Master Data & Process Improvement Lead

True North Talent Limited; West of England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £55,000

Bonus scheme

Benefits package

Job summary

True North Talent Limited is partnering with a growing food manufacturer to appoint a Business Process & Master Data Manager in a newly created role within the Programme & Change function. You will own master data, costing assurance and process improvement to drive better decisions through accurate information.

You will collaborate with Finance, IT, Data and Operations, shaping data standards, governance and roadmaps while supporting business change projects.

Qualifications

• Experience improving and embedding cross-functional business processes within a complex operational environment.
• Experience working with master data or business-critical information such as product, ingredient, recipe, costing, customer, supplier or operational data.
• Experience validating information, investigating discrepancies and improving controls at source.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across senior, operational and specialist teams.
• The ability to translate unclear business problems into practical requirements and improvement plans.
• Strong root-cause analysis skills and experience addressing recurring data or process issues.

Responsibilities

• Managing and validating Food master data, ensuring information is accurate from the outset and flows correctly into costing, reporting and operational processes.
• Providing costing assurance and investigating discrepancies across P74 and Syspro.
• Developing a strong understanding of standard costing and labour models, identifying and explaining costing anomalies.
• Working with NPD, Finance and operational teams to investigate root causes and resolve recurring issues.
• Embedding clear data, costing and approval controls across Food and Innovation processes.
• Acting as the business subject matter expert for master data within the Innovation process.
• Identifying process weaknesses that lead to costing errors, delays, duplicated effort or unreliable reporting.

Skills

Master data

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Root-cause analysis

Process improvement

Costing assurance

Food industry knowledge

Power BI

Tools

Power BI

Job description

True North Talent Limited is partnering with a growing food manufacturer to appoint a Business Process & Master Data Manager in a newly created role within the Programme & Change function. You will own master data, costing assurance and process improvement to drive better decisions through accurate information.

You will collaborate with Finance, IT, Data and Operations, shaping data standards, governance and roadmaps while supporting business change projects.